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    <title>Letters on the subject of a line of rail-roads</title>
    <subTitle>from Boston to the Mississippi</subTitle>
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    <title>Massachusetts and Mississippi rail-road</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Reed, Silas</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1807-1886</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Walker, Amasa</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1799-1875</namePart>
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  <name type="corporate">
    <namePart>Western Rail-Road Corporation</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Printed at the Morning Post Office</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1839</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>12 p. 24 cm.</extent>
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  <note>Cover-title: Massachusetts and Mississippi Railroad.</note>
  <note>Letters, signed Silas Reed, addressed to Amasa Walker, by whom they were submitted to C.G. Greene of the Boston Morning Post.</note>
  <note>"The letters ... were read at a meeting of the committee, appointed by the stockholders of the Western Rail-road Corporation, to aid the directors in their application to the Legislature of Massachusetts, for aid to finish their road."--Circular, p. [3]</note>
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    <topic>Railroads</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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