Papers, 1796-1955 (bulk 1840-1930).

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Papers, 1796-1955 (bulk 1840-1930).

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Correspondence, legal and financial papers, photographs, printed material, writings, clippings, and volumes relating chiefly to the Leech family, but also to relations in the Dewey, Warner, and Duryea families. Correspondence topics include: nineteenth-century American politics; reform movements; lectures and lyceums in New York; late nineteenth-century courtship; and school activities at the Stone School and Williams College. One series of letters from 1841 refer to the American poet Walt Whitman. Another series of letters from the Dewey family, beginning in the 1840s, originate from Ohio. Also included in this collection are papers concerning the Jamaica Lyceum, of which Abraham Paul Leech was secretary pro tem in the 1840s.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7342752

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Leech, Benjamin Charles.

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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892

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Walt Whitman (1819-1892), poet and author. From the description of Walt Whitman collection, 1842-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702172830 Poet, journalist, essayist. From the description of Letter, 1863 July 27-1863 Sept. 9. (New York University). WorldCat record id: 477038304 American author. From the description of Letter to Mary E. Van Nostrand, 1890 November 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 49377819 America...

Leech, Abraham Paul.

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Leech, John, 1925-....

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Jamaica Lyceum (New York, N.Y.)

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Duryea family.

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Williams College

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Warner family.

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Holland, Richard W.

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Leech, Abraham Duryea.

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Dewey family.

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Dewey, Harriet Alice Chipman, 1859-1927

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Leech, John Holdridge Dewey.

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