[Letter from James Birney to Lysander Spooner, Esq.]

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Creator / Contributor: Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857
Spooner, Lysander, 1808-1887
McLean, John, 1785-1861
Armstead, Rosetta
Title: [Letter from James Birney to Lysander Spooner, Esq.]
Collection Title: Lysander Spooner papers, 1836-1886
Date: 1853-08-18
Description: One-page letter dated August 18, 1853, from James Birney of Cincinnati [Ohio] to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts], asking for his legal opinion on the decision of Judge [John] McLean on the [Rosetta Armstead] fugitive slave case.
Identifier: nyhs_lsp_v-01_016
Mss Collection - Lysander Spooner papers
Subject: Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston
Advisory opinions--United States
Material type or medium of original: Letters (correspondence)
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