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LIEBER, FRANCIS. Letter to His Excellency Patrick Noble, Governor of South Carolina, on the Penitentiary System, by Francis Leiber [!]. N.p: [1839]. 1st ed. 8vo. Pp. [33]-62. Disbound, edges frayed. Browned. $225.00
Rinderknecht 56833. Sabin 40985. NUC records six copies. A subject of much interest to Lieber, who translated De Tocqueville's On the Penitentiary System in the United States in 1833, and published his own views initially in 1838.