Letter (from an online archive) (MLA)

Works cited entry

MLA-141

Oblinger, Maggie. Letter to Charlie Thomas, 31 Mar. 1895. Prairie Settlement: Nebraska Photographs and Family Letters, 1862-1912, Library of Congress / American Memory, memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ps:@field(DOCID+l306)#l3060001.

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