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Virginia State Library Bulletin — quarterly, July, October, 1913. An Author and Subject Index to the Southern Historical Society Papers, Vols. I-XXXVHI. Compiled by 'Mrs Kate Pleasants Minor, Reference Librarian, pp. 139.

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