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| | HSP Manuscript Guide: 1500-1599 |
 | | The papers of a controversy between Lucien H. Alexander, Philadelphia lawyer and member of the James Wilson Memorial Committee, and Burton Alva Konkle, historian and secretary of the committee that originated the idea of bringing the remains of James Wilson from North Carolina to Philadelphia in 1906. |
 | | Henry Pleasants, Jr., Henry Pleasants, 3rd, William Wilkins Pleasants, Howard Spencer Pleasants, Richard Rundle Pleasants, Mrs. |
 | | Subjects addressed include: banking, including the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States; churches and charities, particularly Christ Church in Philadelphia, for which both William and William M. Meredith were wardens and vestrymen; Federalist, Whig, and Republican politics at the local, state, and national levels; education; prison reform; and arts and letters. |
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