Letter : New York, to H.B. Hurst [i.e. Hirst], Philadelphia, 1851 June 12.

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Letter : New York, to H.B. Hurst [i.e. Hirst], Philadelphia, 1851 June 12.

1851

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June 12, 1851, letter from Copway to Henry Beck Hirst, a Philadelphia poet, outlining plans to publish Copway's American Indian, a weekly newspaper of Indian advocacy, and asking Hirst to contribute his work and submit a letter of support for the first issue. Copway describes his paper as "a channel of information for the American people and to the Indian race of all such things as will tend to give them a better idea of each other" and lists other contributors, including Prescott Everett, H. R. Schoolcraft, William Gilmore Simms, Lewis Henry Morgan, James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Maj. John Richardson. He also specifies the paper's intended circulation (3,000), typeface, and paper.

1 item (1 sheet folded to 4 p.) ; 26 cm.

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