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Weld-Grimké family papers 1740-1930 1825-1893 Weld-Grimké family papers

Title: Weld-Grimké family papers 1740-1930 1825-1893 Weld-Grimké family papers

The Weld-Grimké family papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, autobiographical documents, printed materials, photographs, realia, and newspaper clippings. The collection addresses such subjects as abolition, women’s rights, temperance, religion, education, and the lives of members of the Weld-Grimké family, including Sarah and Angelina Grimké and Theodore Weld.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet

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Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Letter, 1833 Feb. 5, Hudson, Ohio, [to] Henry Cowles, Austinburg, Ohio.

Title: Letter, 1833 Feb. 5, Hudson, Ohio, [to] Henry Cowles, Austinburg, Ohio.

A.L.S. concerning the American Colonization Society and Wright's negative opinion of it. Mentions immediate abolition as the only right and Christian answer to slavery. Northerners should not be deceived by the colonization arguments.

ArchivalResource: [4] p. on 1 leaf ; 25 x 40 cm. folded to 25 x 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8496781 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Richard O. Curry collection, 1822-1865.

Title: Richard O. Curry collection, 1822-1865.

Correspondence, essays on anti-slavery, plays, sermons, biographical materials, and other papers, relating to Wright's various activities, family affairs, and his emanicipation interests.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28409441 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

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Elizur Wright collection, 1887-1932.

Title: Elizur Wright collection, 1887-1932.

Publications by and about Elizur Wright, focusing on his work with the insurance industry.

ArchivalResource: 2 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/232608898 View

James G. Birney papers 1816-1884 1820-1856 Birney, James G. papers

Title: James G. Birney papers 1816-1884 1820-1856 Birney, James G. papers

The James G. Birney papers consist of the personal, political, and professional letters of James Birney, a Kentucky slaveholder, Alabama politician, anti-slavery activist, and presidential candidate. The collection is particularly strong in Birney's political activities with the American Colonization Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Liberty Party; his role as an abolitionist writer and as the founder and editor of The Philanthropist; and his personal communications with his family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-399bir?rgn=main;view=text View

Elizur Wright publications, 1877-1931

Title: Elizur Wright publications 1877-1931

This collection contains publications by and about Elizur Wright, a faculty member of the Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio, and also known as "the father of life insurance." The publications focus on his work with the insurance industry.

ArchivalResource:

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Alexander, William, 1848-. Trade catalogs of insurance, [1837?]-1946.

Title: Trade catalogs of insurance, [1837?]-1946.

Pamphlets, tables of premium rates, sample policies, and other ephemera relating to insurance, chiefly life insurance.

ArchivalResource: 81 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122538869 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Elizur Wright publications 1877-1931

Title: Elizur Wright publications 1877-1931

This collection contains publications by and about Elizur Wright, a faculty member of the Western Reserve College in Hudson, Ohio, and also known as "the father of life insurance." The publications focus on his work with the insurance industry.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear feet

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/745909497 View

Cartland family papers, 1823-1913.

Title: Cartland family papers, 1823-1913.

Correspondence and other papers of the Cartland family of New Hampshire, cousins of the poet John Greenleaf Whittier.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00353/catalog View

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. ALsS, 1881-1883, Danvers, [MA].

Title: ALsS, 1881-1883, Danvers, [MA].

Concerns receipt of a sonnet (1881); inability to attend semicentennial celebration of the Anti-Slavery Society (Nov. 28 and Nov. 30, 1883); Whittier grateful for opportunity to work for the Society and states that no one wishes for a return to slavery and that regional prejudices are subsiding (Nov. 30, 1885). Letters written to Elizur Wright and Louise Chandler Moulton.

ArchivalResource: 3 items ; 18 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29305852 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Business papers, 1845-1916 (inclusive).

Title: Business papers, 1845-1916 (inclusive).

Chiefly correspondence of Elizur Wright relating to insurance matters and a smaller group of papers of his son, Walter C. Wright, consulting actuary.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (2 cases, 1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/269595251 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Papers, 1837.

Title: Papers, 1837.

Papers of Elizur Wright, insurance actuary, reformer, and abolitionist, contain a letter, 1837, from Ellis Gray Loring, an anti- slavery lawyer, concerning legal papers to be presented to the Massachusetts legislature dealing with jury trial for alleged fugitive slaves.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41109614 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

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885,. Letters, 1822-1843 / [compiled by] Elizur Wright, [Jr.].

Title: Letters, 1822-1843 / [compiled by] Elizur Wright, [Jr.].

Letters to Wright, chiefly from his father, Elizur Wright, of Tallmadge, Ohio, together with some from his mother, Rhoda (Hanmer), and from his brother and sister, James and Clarissa, relating to life in Tallmadge, Western Reserve College, and the anti-slavery movement.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (355 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19898736 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

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Letter : Boston, to William P. Fessenden, n.p., 1864 Feb. 6.

Title: Letter : Boston, to William P. Fessenden, n.p., 1864 Feb. 6.

Autograph letter signed. Wright advises Fessenden to reconsider his position on equal rights for blacks.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78831562 View

Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895. Abolitionist Collection, 1834-1884.

Title: Abolitionist Collection, 1834-1884.

Collection (of an unidentified collector) of abolitionist papers. Includes letters, a speech, and a photograph relating to abolition. Correspondents include Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) of Lane Seminary, Elizur Wright (1804-1885), secretary of the American Anti-Slavery Society, Gerrit Smith (1797-1874), philanthropist and reformer, Henry Grew (1782-1862), Quaker abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), Prominent abolitionist and Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898), abolitionist author. Subjects include abolition tactics and organizations, expressions of sympathy to Garrison on the death of his wife, and publication of Pillsbury's work. Also includes a photograph of Mary Grew (1813-1896), daughter of Henry grew and an abolitionist in her own right.

ArchivalResource: 9 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32288228 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Harper & Brothers, 1847 Jul. 23.

Title: Autograph letter signed : Boston, to Harper & Brothers, 1847 Jul. 23.

Asking if they could send him four volumes of Washington's Writings and two volumes of Hildreth's History of the United States.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584294 View

Weld family. Weld-Grimké family papers, 1740-1930, bulk 1825-1893.

Title: Weld-Grimké family papers, 1740-1930, bulk 1825-1893.

The Weld-Grimké family papers consist of correspondence, diaries, notebooks, autobiographical documents, printed materials, photographs, realia, and newspaper clippings. The collection addresses such subjects as abolition, women's rights, temperance, religion, education, and the lives of members of the Weld-Grimké family, including Sarah and Angelina Grimké and Theodore Weld.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768797702 View

Elizur Wright Papers, 1793-1935, (bulk 1830-1885)

Title: Elizur Wright Papers 1793-1935 (bulk 1830-1885)

Reformer, publisher, and actuary. Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten transcripts of writings, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wright’s involvement in the antislavery movement and to his work as an actuary and as an author and translator.

ArchivalResource: 5,300 items; 29 containers; 8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011130 View

Elizur Wright Letters, 1822-1843

Title: Elizur Wright Letters 1822-1843

Elizur Wright, Jr. (1804-1885) was an abolitionist, and professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Western Reserve College (Hudson, Ohio). Wright took part in the anti-slavery movement before the Civil War. His father came from Canaan, Connecticut, to Tallmadge, Ohio, in 1810, where he founded the Tallmadge Academy. The collection consists of letters to Wright, chiefly from his father, Elizur Wright, of Tallmadge, Ohio, together with some from his mother, Rhoda (Hanmer), and from his brother and sister, James and Clarissa, relating to life in Tallmadge, Western Reserve College, and the anti-slavery movement.

ArchivalResource:

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/archives/ead/OCLWHi1148 View

Goodell, William, 1792-1878. The William Goodell Family Papers 1780-1892 1820-1878

Title: The William Goodell Family Papers 1780-1892 1820-1878

The Collection consists of correspondence, writings, sermons and addresses, diaries, and biographical material by or about abolitionist editor, writer, and speaker William Goodell (1792-1878), and his two daughters, Clarissa Maria Goodell Frost (1826-1899) and Rhoda Lavinia Goodell (1839-1880). The collection includes over 380 of Goodell's sermons and addresses; correspondence with family, colleagues, and such prominent abolitionists as Gerrit Smith, Lewis Tappan, Theodore Weld and Henry Stanton; and various writings. Papers of Maria Frost include her personal diaries of the years 1874, 1877, and 1879-1884; family correspondence; an unpublished manuscript on the life of Lavinia Goodell; a temperance essay; and an article entitled "Ten Reasons Why Women Should Vote." Lavinia Goodell's papers include 6 personal diaries (1873, 1874, 1876-1880) , correspondence, "The Responsibility of the North for Slavery," and a brief by Miss Goodell presented before the Wisconsin State Supreme Court.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (6.8 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/262971897 View

Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Title: Pickard-Whittier papers, 1815-1915.

Correspondence and manuscripts of American writer and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier and his American biographer Samuel Thomas Pickard.

ArchivalResource: 17 boxes (5.7 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00386/catalog View

Elizur Wright business papers, (inclusive), 1845-1916

Title: Elizur Wright business papers, (inclusive), 1845-1916

Correspondence and papers of Elizur Wright relating to insurance matters, 1845-1885, and a smaller group of papers of his son, Walter C. Wright, consulting actuary, 1884-1916.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft. (2 cartons, 1 box).

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/bak00122/catalog View

Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Title: Correspondence and other papers, 1831-1891.

Correspondence of American author and biographer James Parton withfamily members, professional associates, and personal friends as well as financialaccounts, photographs, genealogies, and printed material.

ArchivalResource: 8 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01317/catalog View

William L. Clements Library. James G. Birney papers, 1816-1884, bulk 1820-1856.

Title: James G. Birney papers, 1816-1884, bulk 1820-1856.

The James G. Birney papers consist of the personal, political, and professional letters of James Birney, a Kentucky slaveholder, Alabama politician, anti-slavery activist, and presidential candidate. The collection is particularly strong in Birney's political activities with the American Colonization Society, the American Anti-Slavery Society, and the Liberty Party; his role as an abolitionist writer and as the founder and editor of "The Philanthropist"; and his personal communications with his family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/758450179 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

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Letter, to George Ticknor [manuscript] 1841.

Title: Letter, to George Ticknor [manuscript] 1841.

Wright regrets that his financial situation forces him to go abroad to sell his book, and asks Ticknor for letters of introduction.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647950185 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885. Autograph verses signed "E. Wright," untitled : and apparently addressed to John Pierpont, [n.p., n.d.].

Title: Autograph verses signed "E. Wright," untitled : and apparently addressed to John Pierpont, [n.p., n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270584296 View

Birney, James Gillespie, 1792-1857. Letter : American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838 July 4.

Title: Letter : American Anti-Slavery Society, 1838 July 4.

A letter written by members of the American Anti-Slavery Society Executive Committee, persuading supporters of the abolitionist cause to vote for any political candidate, regardless of political party, who would support and aid their anti-slavery cause. The letter also discourages making any attempt to form a new political party centered around the abolitionist movement, as it would be detrimental to their cause.

ArchivalResource: 1 letter (4 p.) ; 8 x 12 3/4 in. + one typescripft of the letter.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51601535 View

Wilson, Hiram, 1803-1864. Papers 1835-1856.

Title: Papers 1835-1856.

Consists mainly of letters received by Hiram Wilson pertaining to his efforts to aid blacks in Canada. Correspondents include Charles Marryat, Josiah Henson, Elizur Wright, Jr., Erastus Child, George Whipple, and James Cannington Fuller.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27766035 View

Wright, Elizur, 1804-1885,. Letters, 1822-1843 / [compiled by] Elizur Wright, [Jr.].

Title: Letters, 1822-1843 / [compiled by] Elizur Wright, [Jr.].

Letters to Wright, chiefly from his father, Elizur Wright, of Tallmadge, Ohio, together with some from his mother, Rhoda (Hanmer), and from his brother and sister, James and Clarissa, relating to life in Tallmadge, Western Reserve College, and the anti-slavery movement.

ArchivalResource: 0.2 linear ft. (355 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19898736 View