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Letters from John L. Burkhart to his brother Charles and one letter to Albert Burkhart, possibly Charles' son. Letters discuss family news and visits home to East Tennessee, John's skepticism about marriage, Presbyterianism in Maryland, Whig politics, and Henry Clay's visit to Baltimore in 1847.
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