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Thursday, March 28, 2013

To Eddie and Alice Barnard, 27 April, 1957 -- "mostly I read, or look at the Congo"


 

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Labels: 1957-April, African colonialism, Brazzaville, Colonialism, Congo, Eddie and Alice Barnard, Murray Morgan
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