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The ruler link is administrative or chronological context; it is not evidence of a personal demolition order.","catalogueId":"eaton-table-f11157ce21e4"},{"id":"eaton-80","title":"Udaipur","date":"1729","actor":"Murshid Quli Khan","rulerIds":["muhammad-shah"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["eaton","eaton-ref-30"],"locator":"Table entry 80; printed pages 68–69; bibliography 30:7","status":"Indexed claim; underlying passage pending","note":"Indexed historical episode. The table names a locality, not necessarily an individually identified surviving temple; attribution remains to the named actor, not automatically to the ruler. The ruler link is administrative or chronological context; it is not evidence of a personal demolition order. Chronology or geographic identification needs particular checking; do not select a familiar modern place merely by name.","catalogueId":"eaton-table-73f3176d90f8"},{"id":"multan-early","title":"Multan Sun Temple: competing early chronologies","date":"Late tenth / early eleventh century; disputed","actor":"Jalam in al-Biruni; possible Ghaznavid attack in Maclean","rulerIds":[],"siteIds":["multan-sun"],"sourceIds":["multan-wiki","biruni","maclean","stern-1949","stern-1955","fatimid-letter","maqdisi","hudud","gardizi"],"locator":"Al-Biruni I, pp. 116–117; Maclean, pp. 134–137","status":"Competing accounts reviewed","note":"The 965 letter and c. 985 shrine description conflict if both refer to the same temple. Mahmud’s involvement is a proposed explanation, not a settled finding. These rulers predate the Delhi Sultanate and the Mughals.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"multan-late","title":"Multan Sun Temple: later Aurangzeb attribution","date":"After 1666, if the reconstructed-shrine identification is correct","actor":"Aurangzeb, in later local tradition","rulerIds":["aurangzeb"],"siteIds":["multan-sun"],"sourceIds":["multan-wiki","cunningham-multan","thevenot","mirchandani"],"locator":"Cunningham V, p. 119; Thévenot III, pp. 55–56","status":"Retrospective attribution; date and identity unresolved","note":"Cunningham records local tradition in the nineteenth century. Thévenot does not name the deity. No contemporary demolition order was located in this review, and the exact historical footprint remains unknown.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"maluh","title":"Maluh tank temples","date":"During Firuz’s reign; exact year unresolved","actor":"Firuz Shah Tughluq","rulerIds":["firuz-shah-tughlaq"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["firuz-self"],"locator":"Elliot & Dowson III, pp. 380–381, sections 11–13","status":"Event account read; modern identification pending","note":"Temple demolition and replacement by mosques. Historical place names are retained; unverified modern coordinates are not plotted.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"salihpur","title":"Salihpur temple","date":"During Firuz’s reign; exact year unresolved","actor":"Firuz Shah Tughluq","rulerIds":["firuz-shah-tughlaq"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["firuz-self"],"locator":"Elliot & Dowson III, pp. 380–381, sections 11–13","status":"Event account read; modern identification pending","note":"Order to demolish a new temple. Historical place names are retained; unverified modern coordinates are not plotted.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"kohana","title":"Kohana shrine","date":"During Firuz’s reign; exact year unresolved","actor":"Firuz Shah Tughluq","rulerIds":["firuz-shah-tughlaq"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["firuz-self"],"locator":"Elliot & Dowson III, pp. 380–381, sections 11–13","status":"Event account read; modern identification pending","note":"Burning of seized images, books and worship vessels. Historical place names are retained; unverified modern coordinates are not plotted.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"urwah","title":"Urwa / Urwahi Jain images","date":"1528","actor":"Babur","rulerIds":["babur"],"siteIds":["urwahi-jain"],"sourceIds":["babur"],"locator":"Beveridge translation II, pp. 611–612","status":"Ruler’s destruction order read","note":"The order names the Urwa images; it should not be expanded to every damaged sculpture on Gwalior hill.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"pushkar-hill","title":"Unnamed hilltop shrine near Pushkar","date":"1613","actor":"Jahangir","rulerIds":["jahangir"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["jahangir"],"locator":"Rogers / Beveridge I, pp. 254–255","status":"Event account read; exact site pending","note":"Separate from the Varaha image: the memoir describes demolishing the hilltop shrine and its idol. Do not merge the two affected structures.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"nagarkot-akbar","title":"Mahamai temple at Bhun, Nagarkot campaign","date":"Akbar’s reign; campaign dating to collate","actor":"Husain Quli Khan’s forces","rulerIds":["akbar"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":["akbari-extract"],"locator":"Extract pp. 28–30, especially p. 29","status":"Event account read; chronology and modern identity pending","note":"The account describes temple desecration and levelling buildings for a camp. Its date and temple identification need collation with the full edition; neither personal action by Akbar nor identification with a modern shrine is assumed.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"chintamani","title":"Chintamani Jain temple, Saraspur","date":"1645; restoration order 1648","actor":"Aurangzeb as governor; Shah Jahan later restored the property","rulerIds":["aurangzeb","shah-jahan"],"siteIds":["chintamani-saraspur"],"sourceIds":[],"locator":"See the existing dossier and its sources","status":"Existing dossier; roles differ","note":"Aurangzeb’s alleged damage occurred before his imperial accession. Shah Jahan’s role here is restitution, not temple destruction.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"bijamandal","title":"Bijamandal: temple remains and later reuse","date":"Destruction date unknown; later mosque attributed to Aurangzeb","actor":"Destroyer not established by the inspected description","rulerIds":["aurangzeb"],"siteIds":["bijamandal-vidisha"],"sourceIds":["nma-bijamandal"],"locator":"NMA sections 3.1–3.4","status":"Official description read; demolition attribution unresolved","note":"A mosque’s reported builder is not automatically the destroyer of every earlier structure on the site.","catalogueId":""},{"id":"ayodhya-lead","title":"Ayodhya: earlier structure at the Babri mosque site","date":"Chronology and demolition attribution require separate review","actor":"Contested attribution; do not infer Babur’s personal order","rulerIds":["babur"],"siteIds":[],"sourceIds":[],"locator":"Babur biography architectural discussion and its bibliography","status":"Research lead; underlying archaeological and court records pending","note":"The earlier structure, when and how it ceased to exist, the mosque’s construction and the 1992 mosque demolition are distinct questions. No destroyed-temple marker is added from the biography alone.","catalogueId":""}],"nodes":[{"id":"eaton","title":"Richard M. Eaton: Instances of Temple Desecration, Frontline, 22 December 2000","url":"https://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00islamlinks/txt_eaton_temples1.pdf","kind":"Modern scholarly synthesis","access":"Table and bibliography inspected","notes":"The 80 selected episodes are not a census or 80 individually identified temple buildings. A locality row can describe multiple losses. Attribution abbreviations distinguish sovereign, governor and commander."},{"id":"eaton-ref-1","title":"Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-2","title":"Epigraphia Indica, Arabic & Persian Supplement","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-3","title":"Annual Report of Indian Epigraphy","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-4","title":"Indian Antiquary","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-5","title":"Jahangir, Tuzuk-i-Jahangiri, tr. A. Rogers, (Delhi, 1968), v. 1","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-6","title":"Firishta, Tarikh-i Firishta tr. J. Briggs, History of the Rise of the Mahomedan Power in India (Calcutta, 1971), 4 vols.","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-7","title":"Kanbo, `Amal-i Salih (text: Lahore, 1967), v. 2","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-8","title":"A. Butterworth and V.V. Chetty. A Collection of the Inscriptions on Copper- Plates & Stones in the Nellore District (Madras, 1905), v. 3","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-9","title":"Khafi Khan, Khafi Khan’s History of `Alamgir, tr. S.M. Haq (Karachi, 1975)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-10","title":"A. Cunningham, Four Reports Made during 1862-65 (Varanasi, 1972)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-11","title":"S.N. Sinha, Subah of Allahabad under the Great Mughals (New Delhi, 1974)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-12","title":"Saqi Must`ad Khan, Maasir-i `Alamgiri, tr. J. Sarkar (Calcutta, 1947)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-13","title":"Saqi Must`ad Khan, Maasir-i `Alamgiri (text: Calcutta, 1871)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-14","title":"Nizamuddin Ahmad, Tabaqat-i Akbari, tr. B. De (Calcutta, 1973), 3 vols.","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-15","title":"Ishwardas Nagar, Futuhat-i `Alamgiri, tr. T. Ahmad (Delhi, 1978)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-16","title":"Surendranath Sen, ed. & tr., Siva Chhatrapati (Calcutta, 1920), v.1","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-17","title":"P. Sreenivasachar, ed., Corpus of Inscriptions in the Telingana Districts of H.E.M. the Nizam’s Dominions, pt. 2 (Hyderabad, 1940)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-18","title":"Shah Nawaz Khan, Maathir-ul-Umara, tr. H. Beveridge (Patna, 1979), v. 1","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-19","title":"Z.A. Desai, Published Muslim Inscriptions of Rajasthan (Jaipur, 1971)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-20","title":"G. Roerich, tr., Biography of Dharmaswamin (Patna, 1959)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-21","title":"Minhaj-i Siraj, Tabakat-i Nasiri, tr. H. Raverty (New Delhi, 1970), v. 1","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-22","title":"Chattopadhyaya, D., ed., Taranatha’s History of Buddhism in India (Calcutta, 1980)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-23","title":"Hasan Nizami, Taj al-ma`athir, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 2","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-24","title":"Amir Khusrau, Miftah al-futuh, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-25","title":"Amir Khusrau, Khaza’in al-futuh, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-26","title":"Shams-i Siraj, Tarikh-i Firuz Shahi, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-27","title":"Zia al-Din Barani, Tarikh-i Firuz Shahi, Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 3","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-28","title":"Khwajah Ni`mat Allah, Tarikh-i Khan-Jahani wa makhzan-i-Afghani (text: Dacca, 1960), v. 1","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-29","title":"Sikandar bin Muhammad, Mirat-i Sikandari, in E.C. Bayley, Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarat, ed. N Singh (repr. New Delhi, 1970)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-30","title":"Azad al-Husaini, Nau-Bahar-i Murshid Quli Khani, tr., Jadu Nath Sarkar, Bengal Nawabs (1952, repr. Calcutta, 1985)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-31","title":"Abd al-Hamid Lahori, Badshah-nama, in Elliot & Dowson, History, v. 7","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-32","title":"South Indian Inscriptions (New Delhi: Archaeological Survey of India)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-33","title":"George Michell, “City as Cosmogram,” South Asian Studies 8 (1992)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-34","title":"Jonaraja, Rajatarangini, ed. S.L. Sadhu, trans. J.C. Dutt (repr. New Delhi, 1993)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-35","title":"Iqtidar Husain Siddiqui, tr., Waqi`at-e-Mushtaqui of Shaikh Rizq Ullah Mushtaqui (New Delhi, 1993)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"eaton-ref-36","title":"Jagadish Narayan Sarkar, Life of Mir Jumla (Calcutta, 1952)","url":"","kind":"Underlying work","access":"Bibliographic entry captured; passage not independently read in this review","notes":"Edition and page references are retained on each episode. Some selected passages are followed to an accessed translation below."},{"id":"biruni","title":"Al-Biruni, India, Sachau translation, volume I","url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.30168","kind":"Near-contemporary account in translation","access":"Chapter XI, pp. 116–117 read","notes":"Attributes the broken Multan image and killing of priests to Jalam. Written after the events, not an eyewitness report of the attack; translator spelling varies."},{"id":"maclean","title":"Derryl N. Maclean, Religion and Society in Arab Sind (1989)","url":"https://archive.org/details/religion-and-society-in-arab-sind","kind":"Modern scholarship","access":"Printed pp. 134–137 and relevant bibliography entries read","notes":"Compares the Fatimid letter with later geographical accounts. Questions whether the letter concerns the Sun Temple and proposes a possible Ghaznavid destruction. A historical argument, not a securely established replacement date."},{"id":"cunningham-multan","title":"Alexander Cunningham, ASI Report, volume V (1875)","url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.15868","kind":"Retrospective archaeological report","access":"Multan discussion, especially printed p. 119, read","notes":"Records local tradition blaming Aurangzeb; Cunningham visited in 1853, long after the alleged destruction. His location is a conjecture based on gate/drain names."},{"id":"thevenot","title":"Jean de Thévenot, Travels (1687 English edition), part III","url":"https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.752","kind":"Travel account","access":"Chapter XXXII, printed pp. 55–56, read","notes":"Describes an important Multan shrine but says he does not know the deity’s name. Identification as the reconstructed Sun Temple is an inference. This passage alone does not establish that he personally visited it."},{"id":"firuz-self","title":"Firuz Shah, Futuhat-i Firuz Shahi, Elliot & Dowson III","url":"https://archive.org/details/historyofindiaas03elli","kind":"Ruler’s account in colonial translation","access":"Printed pp. 380–381, sections 11–13, read","notes":"Maluh temples demolished; Salihpur temple demolition ordered; Kohana worship objects and books burned. Do not turn the last statement into a demonstrated demolition of the building. Self-justifying court narrative; Persian original not collated."},{"id":"afif","title":"Shams-i Siraj Afif, Tarikh-i Firuz Shahi, Elliot & Dowson III","url":"https://archive.org/details/historyofindiaas03elli","kind":"Court chronicle in translation","access":"Printed p. 314, Jajnagar episode, read","notes":"Reports removal of a stone Jagannath image from the ruler’s fort. Eaton identifies the episode with Puri. The passage is not a surveyed account of destruction of the whole present temple."},{"id":"khusrau","title":"Amir Khusrau, Khazain al-Futuh, Elliot & Dowson III","url":"https://archive.org/details/historyofindiaas03elli","kind":"Court victory narrative in translation","access":"Printed pp. 90–91 read","notes":"Brahmastpuri raid and Madurai temple burning. Court rhetoric describes sweeping destruction; exact lost fabric needs archaeological comparison. The name Chidambaram comes through later identification."},{"id":"jahangir","title":"Jahangir, Tuzuk-i Jahangiri, Rogers / Beveridge, volume I (1909)","url":"https://archive.org/details/tuzukijahangirio00jahauoft","kind":"Ruler’s memoirs in translation","access":"Printed pp. 254–255 read","notes":"Records an order to break the Varaha image at Pushkar and a separate hilltop shrine. This does not mean the whole Varaha temple was razed."},{"id":"babur","title":"Babur, Babur-nama, A. S. 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The inspected paragraph does not name the 76 buildings; it remains one aggregate lead."},{"id":"maasir","title":"Saqi Mustad Khan, Maasir-i Alamgiri, Jadunath Sarkar translation (1947)","url":"https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.82078","kind":"Court-based chronicle in translation","access":"Selected entries: Kashi, Mathura, Khandela/Sanula, Udaipur and Chitor; pp. 55, 60, 107–108, 116–117","notes":"Written after Aurangzeb’s death using court records. Attributes commands and reports completed acts; each statement needs its own locator. A report date is not automatically the day a temple was demolished."},{"id":"akbari-extract","title":"Nizamuddin Ahmad, Tabaqat-i Akbari, Elliot & Dowson extract, later reprint","url":"https://archive.org/details/historyofindiaas07elli","kind":"Chronicle in translation","access":"Printed p. 29 and surrounding Nagarkot campaign context read","notes":"Archive identifier resembles volume VII but this file is a differently paginated Tabaqat extract, not Lahori. Describes Husain Quli Khan’s forces and Mahamai at Bhun. Campaign chronology and modern temple identity need checking."},{"id":"nma-bijamandal","title":"National Monuments Authority: Bijamandal, Bhilsa heritage by-laws","url":"https://www.nma.gov.in/showfile.php?lang=1&level=2&lid=1875&ls_id=1533&nma_type=0","kind":"Official architectural description","access":"Sections 3.1–3.4 read","notes":"Records a former Paramara temple, reused carved members, excavated fragments and a mosque said to be built by Aurangzeb. This does not by itself date the temple’s destruction or establish its destroyer."},{"id":"multan-wiki","title":"Multan Sun Temple: article and captured bibliography","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multan_Sun_Temple","kind":"Reference article","access":"Article and all bibliography entries captured","notes":"Discovery starting point. The detailed disagreements below are checked against the retrieved books."},{"id":"stern-1949","title":"Samuel M. Stern, Ismaili Propaganda and Fatimid Rule in Sind (1949)","url":"","kind":"Earlier source or edition","access":"Identified through a citation; original not consulted","notes":"Maclean cites pp. 301–302 for the letter’s translation. Original article not directly read."},{"id":"stern-1955","title":"Samuel M. Stern, Heterodox Ismailism at the Time of al-Muizz (1955)","url":"","kind":"Earlier source or edition","access":"Identified through a citation; original not consulted","notes":"Maclean cites pp. 24–28 for letter text and dating. 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