Amos Adams Lawrence papers, 1817-1886.

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Amos Adams Lawrence papers, 1817-1886.

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Personal and business papers of Amos A. Lawrence, merchant and investor in the textile industry, anti-slavery sympathizer, and benefactor of educational and other social causes. His personal papers contain a substantial amount of family correspondence (both loose and in letterbooks) with Amos (father), William R. (brother), Amory A. (son), and other members of the Lawrence family. Business papers include correspondence with Robert M. Mason, Lawrence's partner in the firm of Mason & Lawrence; financial statements and other papers related to Lawrence's interest in the textile industry, in particular with Ipswich Mills; and account books (1836-42). Additional topics include Lawrence's interest, with Eli Thayer and Charles Robinson, in the New England Emigrant Aid Company and the emigration of anti-slavery supporters to Kansas following the Kansas-Nebraska Act; the establishment of Lawrence University (Appleton, Wis.) and the University of Kansas in Lawrence, a town named for him; his financial support of Harvard University and other individuals and institutions; his part in the raising of the 2nd Mass. Cavalry and the Mass. 54th Infantry Regiment; and the Utah Emigrant Aid Company founded to populate Utah with non-polygamous non-Mormons. Lawrence's commonplace-book for 1833 is also included. Among his many correspondents are Harvard presidents Josiah Quincy, C.C. Felton, and Charles W. Eliot, and Franklin Pierce.

51 boxes and 4 vols.

Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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