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World Service,20 Jan 1997,28 mins

Washington

Letters Home

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Extracts from letters by notable literary figures, in which they conveyed their impressions of the capital city including: Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman and Frederick Douglass.

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