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* Adams, John, and Abigail Adams. Familiar Letters of John Adams and his Wife Abigail Adams,
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* Allgor, Catherine.
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* Bowen,
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*
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* Donaldson, Harold Eberlein.
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* East, Robert A.
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* Nagel, Paul C.
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