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Bledsoe, Albert Taylor, 1809-1877. Letters of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1858-1875.

Title: Letters of Albert Taylor Bledsoe [manuscript] 1858-1875.

Letters from Jefferson Davis, Edwin DeLeon, Stephen Elliott, Edward Everett, L.C. Gailand, Elen Glasgow, Asa Gray, S.S. Haldeman, Wade Hampton, Joseph Henry, Josiah Gilbert Holland, John H. Hopkins, J.E. Johnston, L.Q.C. Lamar, R.E. Lee, James Russell Lowell, William McCloskey, Leonidas Polk, Margaret J. Preston, Margaret E. M. Sangster, James Spence, F.H. Tremlett, and R.H. Wilmer. Related letters as follows: William Gladstone to ... Froude, Cornelia Grinnan to the Duke of Argyll, introducing Bledsoe, and M.O.W. Oliphant to ... ; and two other items: pass made out by Abraham Lincoln for Mrs. Harriet C. Bledsoe and autograph of Jefferson Davis for Miss Anna Bledsoe. Additional Bledsoe material (microfilm only) includes a portrait of Bledsoe; an outline of his life; an 1899 article on him; a typed copy of his memorandum book; photostats of two series of newspaper articles "Reply to the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D. 'On the State of the Country'," from the New York Weekly Journal of Commerce, February-April 1861 and "The causes of the American War," from the London Index, December 1863-January 1864; two articles by his daughter Sophia Bledsoe Herrick; an article by Harry E. Pratt "Albert Taylor Bledsoe: Critic of Lincoln"; various notes and clippings including a copy of an 1861 Schele de Vere on his desire to help save the union; and some correspondence of David Rankin Barbee on his search for Bledsoe material.

ArchivalResource: ca. 25 items.

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