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		<title>Rare Honolulu Pearl Harbor Attack Newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been consigned a good many items from the famous John Lattimer estate, and will be posting sneak previews of the auctions here on my site. But to begin, I want to share some of the listings that went up last night. Here is a rare Honolulu Star-Bulletin December 7, 1941 newspaper on the attack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2010/03/rare-honolulu-pearl-harbor-attack-newspaper/</link>
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		<title>George Washington Letter Sold for $3.2 Million</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An emotional letter from George Washington to his nephew Bushrod, written soon after the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 has sold at Christie&#8217;s for a record $3.2 million dollars (including buyer&#8217;s premium.) This smashes the previous record of $834,500 set in 2002 for a Revolutionary War military report in his hand.
In the letter, Washington [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/12/george-washington-letter-sold-for-3-2-million/</link>
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		<title>Possible New Da Vinci Painting Found</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spectroscopic analysis of a painting long thought to be from an anonymous 19th Century artist has produced a fingerprint image from the painting matching that of Leonardo Da Vinci.  Work done at Lumiere Technology of Paris for the anonymous Swiss owner, as well as analysis of the canvas and pigments, has convinced art experts that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/12/possible-new-da-vinci-painting-found/</link>
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		<title>Why Good Research Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an example of why the quality of your research (and researchers) makes a difference.
While browsing a recent auction at a noted auction house, I came across the following:
Timothy Pickering Autograph Letter Signed &#8220;T. Pickering&#8221; as secretary of state. One page, 9.75&#8243; x 8&#8243;, January 10, 1799, n.p. The letter, addressed to Dwight Foster, asks, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/10/why-good-research-matters/</link>
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		<title>Wonders of the Art Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I of course had to share this! 

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		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/07/wonders-of-the-art-business/</link>
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		<title>John F Kennedy Inaugural Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update, as I had large shipment of clipped autographs and letters come in late today, and I&#8217;m still sorting them.  I had to take time out to get this listed right away, however.  This is a beautiful John F. Kennedy Presidential Inaugural Program, still in its original mailer!  Absolutely wonderful condition.


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		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/03/jfk-inaugural-program/</link>
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		<title>Secret Message Found in Lincoln&#8217;s Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ National Public Radio reports on a family legend about Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War that turns out to be true!
Watchmaker Jonathan Dillon as an old man told his family that he had been employed at a Washington DC jewelry store in 1861, when the recently-elected President sent his favorite pocket [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/03/secret-message-in-lincolns-watch/</link>
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		<title>1864 Union Soldier&#8217;s Letter: &#8220;Fighting Rebs &amp; Copperheads&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the complete transcript to a letter home written by Corporal Erastus Winters of the 50th Ohio Infantry in General Tecumseh Sherman&#8217;s army.  He talks about the fall of Atlanta and fighting General Hood&#8217;s Rebels across Georgia, and his feelings about the Rebel sympathizers back home.  This letter is currently up for auction on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/01/1864-union-soldiers-letter-fighting-rebs-copperheads/</link>
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		<title>1831 Annual Return of 2d Brigade of 7th Division GA militia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a bit of history you don&#8217;t see every day.  This is the annual &#8220;return&#8221; (report) of the 2nd Brigade of the 7th Division, Georgia State Militia.  At this time in our nation&#8217;s history, most of the armed forces were state militias, and in Georgia&#8217;s case, their troops were for anything but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/01/1831-annual-return-of-2d-brigade-of-7th-division-ga-militia/</link>
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		<title>Confederate Veteran Writes Former Commander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[May 26, 1900 letter written by BP Haynes, late Second Sergeant of the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, to his former brigade commander, General WL &#8220;Old Tige&#8221; Cabell.
In part:
&#8220;My Dear General and Friend &#8212; It is with pleasure I acknowledge the receipt of three copies of your report of the part that Cabell&#8217;s Brigade took in Gen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.freelancehistorian.com/2009/01/confederate-veteran-writes-former-commander/</link>
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