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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">1 Volumes</extent>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" datechar="Creation" era="ce" normal="1874/1876" type="inclusive">Inclusive 1874-1876</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Preferred citation: [Identification of item], John Esten Cooke Scrapbook, WLU Coll. 0337, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA<p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.</p></p>  </prefercite>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>Gift of Susan Randolph Day Dean of Tacoma, Washington in 2002.</p>  </acqinfo>
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<p>This scrapbook was handed down through the family.</p>  </custodhist>
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<p>This scrapbook published by <i>Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper</i> in four installments, of an otherwise unpublished novel by John Esten Cooke titled <i>Cary J. Hunsdon: The Reflections of a Man; 1776.</i></p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>John Esten Cooke was an American writer. During the American Civil War, Cooke served as a staff officer in the Confederate States Army cavalry.</p>  </bioghist>
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    <persname role="fmo" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Dean, Susan Randolph Day</persname>
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