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Peithessophian Society (Rutgers College). Records, 1825-1927 (bulk 1825-1891, 1925-1927).

Title: Records, 1825-1927 (bulk 1825-1891, 1925-1927).

Records of the Peithesopphian Society date from 1825-1927. The bulk of the papers date from 1825-1891, with a supplementary set of papers from the Society's revival dating from 1923-1927. Sixteen manuscript boxes contain minutes, correspondence, receipts and reports. Bound volumes include Treasurer's Records from 1831-1881. Constitutions and By-laws from 1830-1847 and 1876-1891 are also in bound volumes. Minutes of the Society are in bound volumes and loose papers in folders, covering the years 1825-1890 and 1923-1927. Bills and vouchers are in folders, covering the years 1847-1884. There are miscellaneous papers from 1826-1891, general correspondence from 1828-1875, and 1923-1926. Correspondence with the Philoclean Society, a rival literary society at Rutgers, dates from 1820-1868.Addresses presented to the Society date from 1829-1882, and 1923-1926, some of which are bound. There are lists of Honorary Members, bound, from 1825-1858 and Membership Record Books and Registrar's Books from 1843-1879, and 1923-1926. Librarian's Reports cover 1827-1882, and there are also Library Catalogues for 1834 and 1864, and Librarian's Circulation Registers from 1857-1886. There are History and By-Laws dating 1923 and 1927, and a Society photograph dated 1923. The records are arranged in series and subseries, then arranged chronologically. Appendix A lists the correspondents to the Society, chronologically, giving name, date, and address, with occasional notations. Appendix B lists Addresses before the Society, with date, speaker and title of Address, from 1829-1881. Appendix C lists Addresses given before the Society during the Society's revival from 1923-1924, plus a list of undated addresses.

ArchivalResource: 8 cubic ft. (16 manuscript boxes)

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Hutchinson, William, 1823-1904. William Hutchinson papers, 1855-1902.

Title: William Hutchinson papers, 1855-1902.

One box contains four folders. The first folder has undated materials. Folder two contains materials dated 1855 and 1856. Folder three has materials from 1857 and 1858. And folder four contains materials with the dates of 1859 through 1902.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (4 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50094246 View

Brown, George W. (George Washington), 1820-1915. Papers, 1903-1913.

Title: Papers, 1903-1913.

Correspondence with William E. Connelley concerns Brown's memories of the free state struggle for Kansas; his newspaper, the Kansas Herald of Freedom; John Brown; James Henry Lane; Preston B. Plumb; and William Clarke Quantrill.

ArchivalResource: 31 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27731691 View

Brown, George Washington. Reminiscences of the Republic of Texas / by George Washington Brown written in 1910 when he was age 74, found in the library of the Alamo, San Antonia [sic], Texas, April 1965 by his grandson Earl Travis Brown.

Title: Reminiscences of the Republic of Texas / by George Washington Brown written in 1910 when he was age 74, found in the library of the Alamo, San Antonia [sic], Texas, April 1965 by his grandson Earl Travis Brown. 1910.

ArchivalResource: 13 p. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54937248 View

John White Geary papers, 1855-1871

Title: John White Geary papers 1855-1871

The collection consists of the official papers of John Geary while governor of Kansas Territory, 1856-57, with some personal papers, 1855-71. The papers document Kansas during the Free State War and the building of the capitol.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 4; Linear Feet: 1.60

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Inventory to the Records of the Peithessophian Society of Rutgers College, 1825-1927

Title: Inventory to the Records of the Peithessophian Society of Rutgers College 1825-1927

Records of the Peithessophian Society, a student literary group founded at Rutgers College in 1825 for the intellectual broadening of its members. The Society ranged widely in membership size, probably over one hundred by the mid-19th century. It declined in membership after the Civil War, although it continued to exist until the late 1890's. It was revived briefly in the 1920's.

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Bowditch, Henry I. (Henry Ingersoll), 1808-1892. John Brown collection, 1861-1918.

Title: John Brown collection, 1861-1918.

Papers relating to John Brown in Kansas in 1856, and at Harpers Ferry in 1859, collected by various people, 1861-1918. Includes a volume of letters collected by Amos A. Lawrence from George W. Brown, Charles Robinson, David Utter, and others involved with John Brown detailing their memories and experiences, and newspaper clippings from Boston and Kansas papers, 1884-85. Also, typescripts of John Brown correspondence with Thomas W. Higginson, 1858-59; military papers and manuscript copies of court documents, 1859; letters and telegrams written by Virginia governor Henry A. Wise, Nov. 1859; a letter written by Ruth Brown Thompson to her father John Brown a few days before his hanging, 29 Nov. 1859; correspondence of prosecuting attorney Andrew Hunter regarding northern Abolitionists traveling to Virginia during John Brown's trial, Nov. 1859; and typescript essays, 1887-1918, including an essay by Henry I. Bowditch in defense of John Brown, 1887.

ArchivalResource: 1 narrow box and 1 v. in a case.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52730445 View

Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899. Papers, 1843-1903.

Title: Papers, 1843-1903.

This collection of correspondence, essays, articles, and newspaper clippings has as its chief focal point the Kansas conflict in the 1850's. The New England Emigrant Aid Company and similar organizations undertook to send settlers to Kansas from the North East to counteract the influence of the South in determining the free vs. slave status of Kansas on its becoming a state. The Kansas theme runs throughout the collection in contemporary materials as well as in reminiscences and historical narratives written some thirty to fifty years subsequently. Other places important to the collection are West Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York.

ArchivalResource: c. 1500 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122529135 View

Brown, John, 1821-1895. Letter to [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], 1884 January 5.

Title: Letter to [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn], 1884 January 5.

John Brown, Jr., Put-in-Bay Island Lake Erie Ohio, writes to "My dear friends" [most probably Sanborn] concerning the controversy in Kansas newspapers over governor Charles Robinson's complicity in the 1856 Pottawatomie Creek murders. Brown quotes a letter from Robinson in his possession to establish that the governor first proposed the raid to John Brown, Sr. He desires [Sanborn?], in his forthcoming book, to clear his father of the charges that he lied about Pottawatomie. People mentioned include George W. Brown, John J. Ingalls, and Eli Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51091801 View