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Robert Gould Shaw’s letters are part of the “Robert Gould Shaw letters to his family and other papers” collection (call number: MS Am 1910). The entirety of the archival collection has been digitized and is available for use through the finding aid in HOLLIS for Archival Discovery. 

The letters are also available in printed form, edited with an introduction by Russell Duncan. Blue-Eyed Child of Fortune: The Civil War Letters of Colonel Robert Gould Shaw. Russell Duncan, ed. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1992).