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Scope and Contents The correspondence consists of letters of Memucan Howard and his wife Rebecca Howard to their niece, Josephine Porter Cope and her husband, Caleb Cope. Some letters of M.H. Howard contain genealogical information about the Porter family. Those by Rebecca Howard are more generally about health. Ca. 20 letters by M.H. Howard and 10 by Rebecca P. Howard, all in the 1880sLetters primarily to Memucan Howard -- and a few to Rebecca Howard -- are both personal and business, quite a...