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Click any heading below to download pdf packages of all the letters in the Grant-Burr papers dealing with that particular subject.

When you have downloaded the pdf you can keyword search for particular words.

Please note that the letters in the packages are based on the order they appear in the box/folder order; they are not chronological.

Because the letters are about numerous topics, most of them will appear under more than one subject.

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African Americans	Female Seminaries
Astronomy	Food & Diet
Bachelorhood	Foreign Countries
Benevolent Societies	Household Help
Books & Reading	Indians
Business Accounts	Land & Household Description
California Gold Rush	Legal Documents & Discussion
Canals	Letter Writing
Caregiving	Livestock, Hunting & Fishing
Charitable Organizations	Medicine, Illness & Homeopathic Cures
Child Rearing	Merchants & Industry
City Descriptions	Missionaries
Civil War	Music & Singing
Communal Living	Newspapers & Periodicals
Courtship, Weddings & Newlyweds	Politics
Death	Pregnancy & Childbirth
Dissipation	Quotations
Drawings	Religion
Education	Shipboard Travel
Entertainments	Slavery
Ethnic Groups	Travel
Farming	Westward Expansion