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Asbury, Howard DeGrasse. DeGrasse-Howard papers, 1776-1976 ; bulk: 1852-1883.

Title: DeGrasse-Howard papers, 1776-1976 ; bulk: 1852-1883.

Manuscripts and family papers relating to several African-American families, the DeGrasse, Howard, Downing, and Asbury families. The collection also includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photocopies of published sources, and research notes about various individuals in those families collected by Rev. Howard DeGrasse Asbury, a descendent. The collection includes the account book, 1852-55, kept by John Van Surley DeGrasse, a doctor who lived and practiced medicine in Boston; papers relating to DeGrasse's service in the Civil War as a medical doctor in the 35th Regiment, North Carolina Colored Infantry; and a journal, 1865, kept by Edwin Clarence Howard while he was a medical student at Liberia College. Correspondence in the collection includes typescripts of three letters from Charles Sumner, one to DeGrasse, 1866, and two to the abolitionist George T. Downing of Newport, R.I., 1855 and 1872. Additional correspondence to Downing includes one letter, 1866, from James Lynch, editor of The Christian Recorder; one letter, 1869, from Charles Lenox Remond; two letters, 1870, from Ebenezer Bassett, U.S. minister to Haiti; and one letter, 1885, from John Boyle O'Reilly. Collection also contains Downing family correspondence, and letters and clippings documenting Reverend Howard DeGrasse Asbury's research activities and his participation with exhibits about African-American history. Photographs in the collection include cartes de visite depicting John Van Surley DeGrasse and Cordelia Howard DeGrasse taken by the Boston photographers J.W. (James Wallace) Black and John A. Heard.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.

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