Benjamin Silliman letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1844 December 9
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A letter to Edward Hitchcock in which Benjamin Silliman expresses his gladness that Hitchcock will be visiting New Haven soon to lecture and invites Hitchcock to stay at his house. Silliman also briefly touches on the conflict between Hitchcock and James Deane, and informs Hitchcock that he has written something about it in a review of Gideon Mantell's "Medals of the Creation."
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