ALS : New York City, to Mrs. [H.H.] Robinson, 1886 June 17.

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ALS : New York City, to Mrs. [H.H.] Robinson, 1886 June 17.

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Comments on a threatening letter from the Ku Klux Klan sent to Charles Sumner. He thinks it not authentic.

1 item (2 p. in folder) ; 26 x 38 cm.

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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SNAC Resource ID: 7625693

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square

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Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

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Redpath, James, 1833-1891

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911

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Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson was an author (Loom and Spindle, 1898, etc.), women's suffrage leader, anti-slavery movement supporter, and promoter of women's clubs. She began working in a Lowell mill at the age of 10, and wrote for the Lowell Offering, where one of her poems caught the attention of William Stevens Robinson, an editor at the Lowell Courier. They were married in 1848. For further information see Notable American Women (1971). From the description of Papers, 1847-1872 (i...