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<mods:title>Justin Perkins letter to Edward Hitchcock, 1845 July 8</mods:title>
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<mods:abstract>A letter form Justin Perkins, a Presbyterian missionary in Persia (now known as Iran), to Edward Hitchcock recounting the geology of the region and describing local religious unrest between the Presbyterian missionaries and the "Papals and Puseyites".</mods:abstract>
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