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Century of the common man ; two speeches by Henry A. Wallace
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Elmer D. Wallace Consitutional Convention of North Dakota drafts of speeches and letters
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Henry E. Huntington letter to J.A. Wallace
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The speech (at length) of the Honourable Henry Grattan, in the Irish House of Commons, against the Union with Great Britain
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