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To: Lida Howard-Smith
From: John B. Brownlow, Post Office Department, Washington, D. C.
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                                                            Post Office Dep't.
                                                              Washington, D.C.
                                                                   May 30, /95

Cousin Lide:
    There are several magazines and newspapers published devoted exclusively to
the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, & Colonial Dames of America,
but the best of these is a monthly magazine called "The Spirit of '76."  This
magazine is $1 per year or ten cts per copy.  You would do well to subscribe for
it.  If you wish to do so you should address "The Spirit of '76 Publishing Co.,
14 Lafayette Place, New York."  If you do not subscribe for it annually you
should send for two copies of the magazine for May.  It has, in a succinct form,
the best account I have ever seen of the "Battle of Guilford Court House" in
which your great grand-father, James Gaines, so distinguished himself for
gallantry as Captain of a Company of North Carolina Militia that the people of
Chatham Co. (named Chatham County in honor of Wm. Pitt, the great Earl of
Chatham and one of England's greatest Prime Ministers, who was conspicuous by
his eloquent & earnest appeals for justice to the American Colonists in
opposition to war upon them) after the war made him a member of the Convention
of North Carolina which ratified the Constitution of the United States,
thus giving you a double right to membership in the Daughters of the
American Revolution.  You have a right . . . 

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