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Primus family. Primus family papers, 1853-1924.

Title: Primus family papers, 1853-1924.

Primarily correspondence of Nelson A. Primus, a carriage painter in Hartford, Connecticut and later an portrait painter in Boston, Massachusetts, and of Rebecca Primus Thomas, a teacher sent by the Freedmen's Aid Society of Hartford to Maryland to help found a school for free blacks in the years following the Civil War. Also extensive letters written by Addie Brown, a servant in Waterbury, Farmington and Hartford, Connecticut, a closer personal friend of Rebecca's. The letters contain political commentary, reports of prejudice, and often discuss the difficulty of earning a living as a free black person. There are in addition several compositions by Rebecca, and assorted letters to her father and mother.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 linear foot (2 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489131920 View

Brown, Addie W. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1980.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1980.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63564678 View