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John Howard Kyan · 1838 · Scanned text · Free in the US
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1838 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.
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LIBRARY
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