Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

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Scrapbooks, 1872-1907.

Scrapbooks containing correspondence, clippings, tracts and other misc. papers of Josiah W. Leeds related to his interest in various areas of social reform. Includes published editorials, articles and tracts by Leeds on peace, temperance, "pernicious" literature and art, the theater, John Wycliffe, simplicity of attire, "social purity," secret societies, gambling and other related concerns. Correspondence (ca. 2,000 letters) relates to his reform activities and includes letters from John Bellows, George Dana Boardman, Gertrude Whittier Cartland, Anthony Comstock, Wilbur F. Crafts, John H. Dillingham, Neal Dow, E.E. Flagg, Anna A. Gordon, W.T. Harris, Herman Haupt, Alfred H. Love, Thomas Meehan, Clement B. Penrose, Jonathan E. Rhoads, Theodore Roosevelt, George J. Scattergood, Isaac Sharpless, Clarkson Sheppard, Hannah Whitall Smith, William Tallack, William P. Townsend, Benjamin F. Trueblood, John Wanamaker, Herbert Welsh, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis E. Willard, Julia McNair Wright and others.

22 v. ; 31 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7264423

Haverford College Library

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