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Contains 5 Results:

Letter, George W. Childs in Philadelphia, Pa. to W. G. Brownlow, 1862 March 17

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

ALS. Childs, a publisher, requests that Brownlow write a book on his experiences as a Unionist. Estimates that book would bring to Brownlow $10,000.

Dates: 1862 March 17

Letter, George W. Childs in Philadelphia, Pa. to W. G. Brownlow, 1862 March 24

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

ALS. On the chance that the Post Office may not have forwarded his previous letter Childs repeats the offer made in the immediately preceding letter.

Dates: 1862 March 24

Letter, Horace Maynard in Washington, D.C. to W. G. Brownlow, 1862 July 8

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: I
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ALS. Regrets that he could not go with Brownlow to Pottsville, but he did not feel that he could be absent from Congress. Mentions Everson Etheridge. Mentions news from Edward Maynard that 8, 000 rebels are in Knoxville and that John M. Thornburgh, Learned(?) Johnson, Squin Gailbraith (?), O. P. Temple, and John Baxter have been arrested, sent to Tuscaloosa, and are either dead or dying, which confirms Brownlow's intelligence. Mentions Trigg.

Dates: 1862 July 8

Letter, Horace Maynard in Massachusetts to W. G. Brownlow, circa 1862 October 3

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: I
Scope and Contents Note

ALS. Mentions previous letter addressed to Brownlow in Philadelphia, not knowing your present address. Mentions writing to Judge Trigg without receiving yet a reply. Says that the troops have left Cumberland and are marching towards the Ohio River. Mentions writing a strong letter to the President urging help for East Tennessee. Mentions his wife would like to hear from the Brownlow family.

Dates: circa 1862 October 3