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  <titleInfo>
    <title>William T. Avery papers, 1850-1870</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Avery, William T. (William Tecumsah)</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1819-1880</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <language>
    <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>62</extent>
    <extent>1</extent>
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  <abstract>Letters from Avery chiefly to his wife during the period while he was serving in Congress containing comments on Washington, D.C., social life, the business of the House, and the 1860 Democratic conventions in Charleston and Baltimore.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Lawyer, U.S. representative from Tennessee, and Confederate Army officer.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>United States.</namePart>
      <namePart>Congress.</namePart>
      <namePart>House.</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Democratic National Convention (1860 : Baltimore, Md.)</namePart>
    </name>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="conference">
      <namePart>Democratic National Convention (1860 : Charleston, S.C.)</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Washington (D.C.)</geographic>
    <topic>Social life and customs</topic>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Army officers, Confederate</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Lawyers</occupation>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="itoamc">
    <occupation>Representatives, U.S. Congress</occupation>
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  <identifier type="lccn">mm 82059907</identifier>
  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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