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Julia Ward Howe Papers, 1845-1917

Title: Julia Ward Howe Papers 1845-1917

Author and reformer. Chiefly speeches and writings, with correspondence, notes, and printed matter pertaining to education, immigration, prison reform, race relations, religion, and women's rights.

ArchivalResource: 200 items; 5 containers; 2 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009026 View

Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Title: Books from the library of Amos Bronson Alcott, 1579-1893.

Library of Amos Bronson Alcott, the American philosopher of the NewEngland Transcendentalist group.

ArchivalResource: 599 v.

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01478/catalog View

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884. Letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith [manuscript], 1852 March 27.

Title: Letter to Elizabeth Oakes Smith [manuscript], 1852 March 27.

In the letter (1852 March 27, Hyde Park, N.Y.) Channing discusses a paper on women's rights for which Mrs. Oakes Smith is seeking subscribers. He feels it will be more useful than lectures but does not think he can get subscribers in conservative Hyde Park. He mentions his cousin H. Channing and discusses his memoirs of Margaret Fuller, in which he had made use of a sketch by Mrs. Oakes Smith.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647871288 View

Channing, William, 1751-1793. Colonial Society of Massachusetts collection, 1710-1939.

Title: Colonial Society of Massachusetts collection, 1710-1939.

Papers from the Wister, Channing, Clark, Kittredge, and Endicott families of Massachusetts, as well as miscellaneous papers, 1710-1939, collected by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Wister family papers include family correspondence, Mary Channing Eustis Wister's household account books, 1868-1887, and 1883 European travel journal, property lists for Mary Channing Eustis Wister and her children as well as Sarah Logan Wister, William Rotch Wister obituaries and clippings, and a memorial for Mary Channing Wister. Channing family papers include genealogical notes, William Channing's appointments to the bar and as justice of the peace, William Ellery Channing's 1822 passport, and a letter to William Henry Channing. Clark family papers include correspondence to Jonas and Jonathan Clark, bills, deeds for property in Chelmsford and Tewksbury, and a commonplace notebook containing original poetry. Endicott family papers include several membership certificates of William Crowninshield Endicott, Jr. and surveys of farmland in Danvers, Mass. Miscellaneous papers include two charters of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1892 and 1893.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 oversize box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51180470 View

Papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck, 1833-1937

Title: Papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck, 1833-1937

The Harriet Robinson papers include a large body of her family correspondence with her children, her husband, and other family members. Other correspondents include: Lucy Larcom, several Lowell mill girls, and suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Annual diaries, dating from 1852 to 1908 with some gaps, and scrapbooks number over seventy volumes and contain early writings (published and unpublished), Lowell mill girl material, and newsclippings dealing primarily with women and suffrage. Seven of the scrapbooks were kept by Harriette Robinson Shattuck, except that the first of them was begun for her by her mother. The Shattuck papers include 33 diaries (1867-1937), nine additional scrapbooks, and an 86-page manuscript autobiography written in 1914.

ArchivalResource: 6.67 linear feet ((16 file boxes) plus 1 volume, oversize folder)

https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/4959 View

Ford, Worthington Chauncey, 1858-1941. Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900.

Title: Letters of Worthington Chauncey Ford [manuscript], 1886-1900.

In a letter dated June 19, 1900, Ford commends to Wendell Phillips Garrison, his brothers, and Helen Villard two enclosed letters, both dated January 1886, from Samuel Joseph May to James Freeman Clarke concerning William Lloyd Garrison. May's first letter, dated January 12, 1886, recommends the writings of William Lloyd Garrison and praises him for his leadership in the anti-slavery movement. It criticizes American churches for not unifying against slavery, and condemns the Unitarians for not paying due respect to Garrison's influence in the anti-slavery movement. It also compares Garrison to Peter the Hermit; quotes Caleb Stetson; and frequently mentions William Henry Channing and C. Bartol and mentions others. May's second letter, dated January 16, 1886, refers to and praises a book by Theodore Parker, edited by Clarke; asks Clarke to acknowledge Garrison's influence and spirit; and describes problems between Garrison and the Unitarians.

ArchivalResource: 3 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647806452 View

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Papers, 1814-1946 (bulk: 1840-1902)

Title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers 1814-1946 (bulk 1840-1902)

Reformer and feminist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items; 10 containers plus 1 oversize; 4.3 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998020 View

May, Samuel J. (Samuel Joseph), 1797-1871. Samuel Joseph May diary, 1859.

Title: Samuel Joseph May diary, 1859.

Diary describing May's 1859 travels, including: meetings with anti-slavery advocates in England, visits to France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, & Holland, descriptions of preparations for war in Italy, accounts of various artists and studios in Rome, details of travel arrangements to a number of ancient sites, memoranda pages list 1859 addresses of a number of people including William and Ellen Craft. He returns to Syracuse in November and resumes his work as a Unitarian clergyman there.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 16 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64758474 View

Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850. Margaret Fuller papers, 1837-1884.

Title: Margaret Fuller papers, 1837-1884.

The collection contains approximately 154 letters, poems, fragments, and journal extracts written by Margaret Fuller (1810-1850). Also included are letters written between Thomas Wentworth Higginson and people who knew Fuller regarding his biography of her.

ArchivalResource: 273 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/754805269 View

Blackwell family. Papers, 1784-1944 (bulk: 1832-1939)

Title: Papers of the Blackwell family, 1784-1944 (inclusive), 1832-1939 (bulk)

Chiefly papers of Congregational minister Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, as well as papers and photographs of other family members.

ArchivalResource: 4 file boxes, 7 folders of photographs, 1 oversize folder, 1 folio folder

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/sch00051/catalog View

Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Title: Letters to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1761-1904 (inclusive), 1820-1888 (bulk)

Letters to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ArchivalResource: 36 linear feet (73 boxes)

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00355/catalog View

Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn papers, 1845-1936 (bulk 1845-1936)

Title: Franklin Benjamin Sanborn papers, 1845-1936 (bulk 1845-1936)

Series I contains accession information relating to parts of the collection, specifically a letter from Lulu M. Blake (Mrs. Hallie C. Blake) to Judge Prescott Keyes dated 21 May 1936 regarding the passing of materials from Blake to Keyes. Series II consists of manuscripts, notes, and receipts relating to Sanborn's work and personal interests which include Theodore Parker, anti-slavery (John Brown), and the care and treatment of the insane; receipts include two relating to the attendance of John Brown's daughters at Sanborn's school. Series III consists of correspondence between Sanborn and others including John Brown, Ellery Channing, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth Peabody, and Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: .42 linear ft.One container

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/750266365 View

Brainard, Charles Henry, 1817-1885. Papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Title: Charles Henry Brainard papers, 1795-1884 and undated

Autograph album (1858-1884), a letter book (1855-1883), and a scrapbook of letters and autographs (1795-1857 and undated) of American print dealer, publisher, and historian, Charles Henry Brainard.

ArchivalResource: 4 volumes (.5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01547/catalog View

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902. Papers, 1814-1946 (bulk: 1840-1902)

Title: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers 1814-1946 (bulk 1840-1902)

Reformer and feminist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War, temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.

ArchivalResource: 1,000 items; 10 containers plus 1 oversize; 4.3 linear feet; 5 microfilm reels

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998020 View

William H. Channing collection 1829-1863 Channing, William H. collection

Title: William H. Channing collection 1829-1863 Channing, William H. collection

This collection contains letters from Susan Channing to her son William H. Channing, a prominent Unitarian Religious leader in America during the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s. Also included are letters from relatives and friends of deceased Civil War soldiers, sent to Channing while he was stationed as chaplain at the Stanton Hospital in Washington D.C.

ArchivalResource: 34 items

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-3099.2cha?rgn=main;view=text View

John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Title: John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Papers and records relating to the Brook Farm community and also to residentJohn Thomas Codman.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02188/catalog View

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884. Dangers to be guarded against in the study of polemic divinity : [Divinity School, 1833]

Title: Dangers to be guarded against in the study of polemic divinity : [Divinity School, 1833]

ArchivalResource: 13 p. ; 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/77072697 View

Samuel Joseph May diary, 1861.

Title: Samuel Joseph May diary, 1861.

Diary of a Unitarian Clergyman of Syracuse, New York with connections to national organizations related to Anti-Slavery, Temperance, and Suffrage causes, among others. Gives account of daily life of a 19th century clergyman: weddings, funerals, services to the poor, sermons, correspondence, publications, visits, etc. along with May's special interests which include activity with the Underground Railroad in March, July, and October. In January he and Susan B. Anthony are burned in effigy during a riot in Syracuse and on April 1 he is annoyed by a "false fugitive" prank. May is in contact with many important figures of the American Civil War era.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 17 cm.

https://catalog.library.cornell.edu/catalog/4034218 View

Allen, William, family. William Allen family correspondence, 1802-1872

Title: William Allen family correspondence, 1802-1872.

Correspondence of Unitarian minister William Allen and his family.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00695/catalog View

Edward Morris Davis papers, 1830-1941 (inclusive), 1837-1850 (bulk).

Title: Edward Morris Davis papers, 1830-1941 (inclusive), 1837-1850 (bulk).

Primarily letters from prominent abolitionists concerning the anti-slavery movement to Philadelphia Quaker and director of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Edward Morris Davis.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes and 1 volume (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00761/catalog View

Codman, John Thomas. John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Title: John Thomas Codman Brook Farm collection, 1840-1901.

Collection consists of papers collected by and primarily concerning John Thomas Codman and his connection to the Brook Farm Community. Also includes letters to and from others involved with Brook Farm, especially the community's founder George Ripley, and also some of their record books. Prominent signatures are found in the autograph collection including: Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Theodore Parker, William Henry Seward, Charles Sumner, and many others. Correspondents include: Louis Agassiz, William Henry Channing, Christopher Pearse Cranch, Charles Anderson Dana, Eugene Victor Debs, Horace Greeley, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Henry James, James Whitcomb Riley, George Ripley, among others.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745597924 View

Fowler family. Fowler and Wells families papers, 1807-1968, 1836-1901(bulk).

Title: Fowler and Wells families papers, 1807-1968, 1836-1901(bulk).

Correspondence, articles, lectures, photos, printed matter, and other papers relating to the practice of phrenology by various members of the Fowler and Wells families, including Orson and Lorenzo N. Fowler, Samuel Roberts Wells, and Charlotte Fowler Wells. Includes material relating to "The Phrenological Journal" and "The Practical Phrenologist," periodicals with which the family was associated. Also includes a small number of Civil War letters. Also, originals and transcribed copies of the wills of Charlotte Fowler Howe and Charlotte Fowler Wells, and other letters. Howe-Fowler Family letters, bound volume of transcribed letters by Harlan L. Howe. Also The Dr. Parker Birthday Book, selected and arranged by Amelia M. Flower and give by her to Abitha Howe, with birthdays of Howes and Fowler family members noted. Includes handwritten family chart by Harlan L. Howe and notes on additional individual noted in the book.

ArchivalResource: .9 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64075275 View

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. Autograph letter : Boston, to Benjamin Rodman in New Bedford, 1833 Dec. 27.

Title: Autograph letter : Boston, to Benjamin Rodman in New Bedford, 1833 Dec. 27.

Introducing his nephew, William Henry Channing.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270621726 View

Portrait file: Guide.

Title: Portrait file: Guide.

The Portrait File is an alphabetically arranged collection of portait images of individuals, groups of individuals, and views and miscellany, received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 15 boxes (5 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01675/catalog View

Hemenway, Amy. Collection of autographs, 1791-1873

Title: Amy Hemenway collection of autographs, 1791-1873.

Autograph collection of American collector Amy Hemenway.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00456/catalog View

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884. W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

Title: W.H. Channing letter to Dear Sir, 1852 Mar. 29.

Channing writes to Dear Sir [Rev. J.D. Kingsbury], a long letter about the origin and growth of Transcendentalism in New England, pointing out articles in The dial by Emerson and Thoreau. He closes with a long paragraph about the Brook Farm experiment.

ArchivalResource: 3 p.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/61104065 View

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874. Correspondence, 1829-1874

Title: Charles Sumner correspondence, 1829-1874

Letters to Charles Sumner, lawyer, Republican senator from Massachusetts, and anti-slavery campaigner; with a smaller number of letters from Sumner to others.

ArchivalResource: 33 cartons (43.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00232/catalog View

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881)

Title: Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (inclusive) 1833-1881 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of American abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (17.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00497/catalog View

Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888. James Freeman Clarke correspondence, 1845-1872.

Title: James Freeman Clarke correspondence, 1845-1872.

Correspondence between James Freeman Clarke and his family and others. Correspondents include Abraham F. Clarke, Anna Clarke, Sarah Freeman Clarke, William Hull Clarke, William Henry Channing, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Annie (Adams) Fields, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and John B. Willard.

ArchivalResource: 25 boxes (12.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612374318 View

Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884. Autograph letter signed : London, to Horace Greeley, 1869 Aug. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed : London, to Horace Greeley, 1869 Aug. 7.

Asking him to give publicity for a course of lectures that Channing plans to give in America.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270623156 View

Autograph File, C

Title: Autograph File, C

The Autograph File is an alphabetically arranged collection of single letters, manuscripts, and drawings received from various sources at various times. Additions continue to be made.

ArchivalResource: 14.5 linear feet (29 boxes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01426/catalog View

Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842. Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to "Monsieur J le L de Sismondi," 1841 Sept. 10.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [Boston], to "Monsieur J le L de Sismondi," 1841 Sept. 10.

Concerning social unrest and business depression in the United States.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (6 1/2 p.) ; 25.1 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430511379 View

Alcott family additional papers, 1707-1904 (inclusive), 1821-1888 (bulk).

Title: Alcott family additional papers, 1707-1904 (inclusive), 1821-1888 (bulk).

Part of the family papers of the Alcott family of Concord (Mass.). This family included the writer Louisa May Alcott, and the New England transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott. Papers include diaries, compositions, correspondence, business papers, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00029/catalog View

Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

Title: Slavery in the United States collection, 1703-1905.

This collection, which spans the years 1703 to 1905, contains a variety of correspondence, business records, and documents relating to slavery in the United States. These materials include both sides of the history of slavery, from slave trading to abolition. There is correspondence of three Richmond, Va., slave trader/auctioneer firms: R.H. Dickinson & Brother, which later became Dickinson, Hill & Co.; E.H. Stokes; and Betts & Gregory. The majority of the correspondence deals with the business of the buying and selling of slaves. Some letters from slave owners set the pricing of their slaves to be sold; while other letters describe the type of slave(s) buyers are looking for (e.g., dark mulatto, boys and girls between a certain age and/or height, a seamstress). There are other letters describing the atmosphere of slave auctions (e.g., dull). Other business records include a daybook of R.H. Dickinson & Brother for the period 1846 to 1849, and an account book for Dickinson, Hill & Co. for the years 1855 to 1858. This volume also includes scattered diary entries of Sarah Earle Chase (1836-1915) for the spring of 1865 in Richmond and for a voyage to Europe in the spring and summer of 1870. There are three folders of sales and tax receipts for slaves, as well as one folder of blank receipts. These materials, along with the above-mentioned correspondence, were probably taken from the Dickinson office in Richmond by Sarah Earle Chase and her sister Lucy Chase (1822-1909) [see the Chase Family Papers collection description]. There are six folders of correspondence of Isaiah Coffin Ray (1804-1882), a boot and shoe merchant in Nantucket and New Bedford, Mass., who shifted his calling to law in the 1850s. He was appointed to the American Anti-Slavery Committee on Finance at the 1844 Convention in New York. These letters, dated 1836 to 1851, mainly concern arrangements for lectures, meetings, etc., while some are of a more personal nature. Several of the correspondents were active in the Fourierist movement and Brook Farm, but the letters appear to be concerned primarily with anti-slavery activities. Principal correspondents are Rebecca T. Pool ( - ), John Orvis (1816-1897), John Anderson Collins (1810-1879), John Allen ( - ), Harrison Gray Otis Colby (1807-1853), Elizabeth Buffum Chace (1806-1899), Asa Burnham Hutchinson (1823-1884), John C. Cluer (1800- ), Albert Brisbane (1809-1890), and William Henry Channing (1810-1884). The miscellaneous correspondence contains both the business of slave trading and the anti-slavery movement. The letters concerning sales of slaves are mainly from the Southern States. However, there are two letters with a northern connection. The first, dated 20 February 1806, from John Taylor, of Northampton, Mass., to Noah Scovell, of Saybrook, Conn., is in regard to a runaway slave girl. The second, dated 15 March 1831, from Nathaniel Humphreys, of Antigua, to Jno. C. Lee, of Salem, Mass., is in regard to the sale of slaves. There are two letters written to Elizur Wright (1804-1885) while he was editor of the Anti-Slavery Reporter in New York City. The first, dated 26 October 1837, is from Elijah Parish Lovejoy (1802-1837). He writes that " ... you may depend on me for aid in contributions to the columns of the Magazine ..." Lovejoy, however, was killed by a mob in Alton, Ill., just a few days later on 7 November. The other letter, dated 27 January 1838, is from Rev. John Pierpont (1785-1866) declining to contribute to the magazine. A letter, dated 6 December 1852, from Charles Calistus Burleigh (1810-1878) to Samuel Joseph May (1797-1871) is in regard to Jefferson Lee, " ... originally from the South." It seems Lee had moved to Pennsylvania, then to Plainfield, Mass., and who " ... now thinks it will be for his advantage to remove to Canada ... He thinks of going to the Elgin settlement ..." This letter serves as an introduction of Lee to May. Two letters, dated 12 January and 5 April 1856, are from Charles Emory Smith (1842-1908), of Albany, N.Y., to his uncle Isaac Smith ( - ), of Leominster, Mass. In the letters, Smith argues in favor of abolition and the preservation of the Union, while his uncle opposed the latter principle. There is also a letter, dated 13 August 1868, from Edward A. Huston to Isaac Smith detailing Huston's visit with William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) and his family. Two photostats of letters (originals in the UMass library) concern Erasmus Darwin Hudson (1806-1880). The first is a letter of introduction written for him by James Sloan Gibbons (1810-1892), while the other is "short & sweet" from an unidentified correspondent. Other correspondents include George Leonard (1801-1881), William Cost Johnson (1806-1860), Ralph Randolph Gurley (1797-1872), Samuel May (1810-1899), Henry Ingersoll Bowditch (1808-1892), Henry Alexander Wise (1806-1876), and James Shannon (1799-1859). Most of these letters are in regard to the deliverance of lectures. The miscellaneous documents include a list of slaves from Plaquemine, La.; bills of sales and deeds for slaves; manumissions; a list of taxes and fees paid to the state of Alabama and Greene County; and a resolution of the state of Massachusetts in regard to the abolition of slavery. One manumission document, dated 26 March 1794, is of particular interest. Signed by Nicholas Davies (c. 1708-1794), and witnessed by seven others, the document liberates twenty of his slaves and their children. It was recorded, on 23 June 1794, at the Bedford County (Va.) Court House. Another interesting manumission, dated 7 July 1845, is for "Amanda Holmes, a coloured woman," and a bill of sale, dated 29 January 1850, for "one negro named Williams Holmes" from Col. Adam D. and Mary B. Stewart, to Amanda Holmes, a free woman of color, all of St. Louis, Mo. Other documents include a typed copy of a slaver's accounts in Africa for the years 1789 to 1792; the constitution of the Cambridge (Mass.) Anti-Slavery Society, dated 4 June 1834; and a school report, by Theron Johnson Damon (1883-1973), entitled "Inside History of Shadrach Fugitive Slave Case," dated 25 May 1905. Damon graduated from Harvard in 1905. A call for a national (or northern) convention, to be held in October 1857, of those in favor of disunion, went out in July of 1857, from Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911) and other leading abolitionists. There are twenty-five folders of responses to that call from seventeen states. The also collection contains two small notebooks attributed to Arnold Buffum (1782-1859). The first is a report from the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society and a draft of a petition to the U.S. Congress. The second contains drafts of two lectures or articles dated 26 October 1853 and 4 November 1853 plus two pages of an expense account for 1856.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes.1 folder ; oversize.2 v. ; octavo.1 v. ; folio.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259785 View

Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Title: Palfrey family papers, 1713-1915

Papers of the Palfrey family of New England. The material of this collection encompasses over 150 years of American history and many items of interest besides those documenting the life and works of John Gorham Palfrey, who is its central figure. A few of these may be briefly mentioned here. The papers of William Palfrey include letters between John Wilkes and the Sons of Liberty and William Palfrey's personal correspondence with Wilkes at the time of the latter's imprisonment in 1769-1770, including Palfrey's description of the Boston Massacre. William Palfrey's business account and financial papers are extensive and range in subject from accounts of trade with Virginia in 1763 to the disposition of funds of the Continental Army during the time Palfrey was Pay Master General. His close association and correspondence with John Hancock should be noted. Several interesting items pertain to the dispute between Hancock and the Boston printer, John Mein, which resulted in Thomas Longman's suit against Mein and the latter's imprisonment. The papers of John Palfrey deal mainly with his business affairs and the management of his plantation at Attakapas. However, several letters by his sons, Edward, William Taylor, and Henry William give first-hand accounts of battles in the war of 1812. Letters to John Gorham Palfrey from over 1000 corespondents form the largest single section in the collection. Of special importance are 377 letters from Jared Sparks and 148 letters from Charles Sumner.

ArchivalResource: 60 linear feet (130 boxes and 9 volumes)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00387/catalog View