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| Title | Letters, by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, Esq. ... and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals: with Notes Explanatory and Historical Letters, by Several Eminent Persons Deceased: Including the Correspondence of John Hughes, Esq. ... and Several of His Friends, Published from the Originals: with Notes Explanatory and Historical, John Duncombe |
| Author | John Hughes |
| Editor | John Duncombe |
| Compiled by | John Duncombe |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1773 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 23, 2007 |
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