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Memoir of Robert Swain
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Swain, who lived in San Francisco, wrote these letters to Rhode Island Senator James Fowler Simmons. In the letters Swain discusses business interests he still holds in Rhode Island, politics in California, his lawyer Annis Merrill, the south seceding from the Union, the Fort Sumter situation, and Simmons' speech to Congress regarding secession.
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