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American Colonization Society. List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17.

Title: List of emigrants for Liberia, 1867 Nov. 17.

Handwritten list of the names of 312 African American emigrants from Columbus and Macon, Ga., Dover, Tenn., Philadelphia, Pa., and Mars Bluff, S.C., who "embarked on board ship G̀olconda, ' belonging to Am. Colonization Society, from Charleston, S.C. November 17, 1867." Signed by William Coppinger, "Cor. Sec. Am. Col. Soc."

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32144821 View

Sparks, Jared, 1789-1866. Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843

Title: Jared Sparks collection of American manuscripts, 1582-1843.

The Sparks collection consists of original and transcribed historical documents and correspondence, chiefly concerning the American colonies and the original thirteen states, collected or transcribed beginning in 1819 by Jared Sparks. The collection includes the papers of Sir Francis Bernard and George Chalmers, letters of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, the Marquis de Lafayette, and George Washington, the journals of Thomas Ainslie, the Board of Trade, the New York Provincial Congress and Conventions, as well as the papers and records from state public offices, among many others. The Sparks collection also contains his own historical essays and compositions, published articles, letter books, diaries, account books related to his college days, professional research, and material documenting his tenure as College president.

ArchivalResource: 252 volumes, 10 env., 2 folders, 3 cases, 57 boxes (31.6 linear ft.)

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Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection (HC.MC-1190)

Title: Benjamin Coates African Colonization collection (HC.MC-1190)

The collection consists primarily of letters written to Benjamin Coates. The letters reflect Coates' philanthropy, especially as he donated books to the cause of African American/Liberian education. Correspondents include: George N. Allen, E.D. Bassett, George Bethune, Edward Blyden, Robert? Campbell, John E. Carter, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, M.E. Bibb Cary, Thomas Chase, Benjamin Coates, A. Cope, William Coppinger, Alex Crummell, E.B. Darnell, Thomas I. Durante, Frederick Douglass, William Evans, M.H. Freeman, Henry Highland Garnet, I. McD. Gurley, E.M. Gurley, Thomas Hamilton, Robert Harper?, J.D. Harris, Henry Hartshorne, Annie Heacock, W.S. Hilles, Joseph Hobbins, J.I. Holly, Ezra Johnson, Eleanor Ketchum, J.M. McKean, William F. Mitchell, Edmund Morris, J.B. Pinney, G.D. Pike, Evelyn E. Plummer, A. Prince, James E. Rhoads, Robert Carter & Bros., J.J. Roberts, Martin W. Roberts, J.B. Smith, D. Say?, M. Schofield, George L. Stearns, Joseph Tracy, Reuben Tomlinson, Thomas Tucker, Thomas Tucker, Alvin Varner, H.O. Wagoner, D.B. Warner, Jonathan Welsh, William Whipper, G. Whipple, Yates & Porterfield, John Young. In a Miscellaneous folder are: A.S. Barnes & Co., Ohio State Anti-Slavery Society, Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, Union Benevolent Association.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (2 boxes, ca. 100 items)

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Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. American Colonization Society Papers.

Title: Library Of Congress, Manuscript Division. American Colonization Society Papers.

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Princeton University Library, Mudd Ms. Lib, Univ. Archives. John Maclean Papers.

Title: Princeton University Library, Mudd Ms. Lib, Univ. Archives. John Maclean Papers.

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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1865-1891

Title: Correspondence, 1865-1891

This record unit consists of outgoing correspondence from the Office of the Secretary during the tenures of Joseph, Henry, 1846-1878; Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1878-1887; and Samuel Pierpoint Langley, 1887-1906.

ArchivalResource: 46.06 cu. ft. (62 document boxes) (68 3x5 boxes) (243 microfilm reels)

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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. Papers, 1798-1893 (bulk 1827-1887)

Title: Dorothea Lynde Dix papers, 1798-1893 (inclusive), 1827-1887 (bulk).

Correspondence and manuscripts of American educator, social reformer, and humanitarian, Dorothea Dix.

ArchivalResource: 29 boxes (9.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00078/catalog View

Coffin, James H. (James Henry), 1806-1873. James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

Title: James Henry Coffin Papers, 1848-1884

These papers consist of correspondence concerning temperature, wind, and weather reports of the Hudson Bay region, 1848; resolutions of condolence to Coffin's son, Seldon J. Coffin, from students and alumni of Lafayette College after Coffin's death, 1873; newspaper articles; an illustration of James H. Coffin; and the original manuscript of Winds of the Northern Hemisphere. Additional correspondence of James Henry Coffin exists elsewhere in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, especially in the Joseph Henry Collection, Record Unit 7001, and Meteorological Project Records, Record Unit 60.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)

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Massachusetts Colonization Society. Records, 1841-1911.

Title: Records, 1841-1911.

Records of the Massachusetts Colonization Society, an organization whose purpose was to send free black citizens of the United States, with their full consent, to colonize the coast of Africa, specifically Liberia. The records include minutes, constitution, financial records and reports, and annual reports. Also, correspondence, in particular with the American Colonization Society with whom they were closely related, and regarding Liberia College, a major concern of the society. Correspondents include Andrew P. Peabody, Amos A. Lawrence, William Coppinger, J.C. Braman, Joseph Tracy, and John Orcutt.

ArchivalResource: 1 box and 5 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19044457 View

Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary. Correspondence, 1863-1879

Title: SIA RU000026, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Correspondence, 1863-1879

This series consists mostly of correspondence addressed to Joseph Henry, much of which received his personal attention; also included are some copies of Henry letters, occasional returned original Henry letters, and a considerable number of letters to Spencer Fullerton Baird.

ArchivalResource: 59.56 cubic feet

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