Letters, 1846-1872, to Elliot C[hristopher] Cowdin.

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Lieber, Francis, 1800-1872. Letters, 1846-1872, to Elliot C[hristopher] Cowdin.

Letters, 1846-1872, to Elliot C[hristopher] Cowdin.

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Letters from Francis Lieber, first professor of history and political economy at South Carolina College (University of South Carolina), to Elliot C. Cowdin (1819-1880), influential Northern business man who worked in the silk trade and lived alternately between New York and Paris. Letter, 10 Oct. 1846, declines an invitation to speak at the Mercantile Library Association of Boston; letter, 19 Jun. 1866, written on letterhead of the War Department, Archive Office, Washington, D.C., requests from Cowdin the address for "his Chinese Excellency." Letter, 29 Feb. 1872, thanks Cowdin for having sent a copy of his publication France in 1870-71: an address, delivered before the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Advises that Cowdin forward copies of the publication to A.R. Spofford, Librarian of Congress, the Astor Library, and other libraries. In his letter of 1872, Lieber also suggests that Cowdin read his 1841 publication, "As to Communism I wish you would read my Essays on Labour and Property first published in 1841, when Mr. [Orestes A.] Brownson [(1803-1876)], the Unitarian minister ... wrote what he intended to be an election pamphlet ["Laboring Classes," on behalf of incumbent Martin Van Buren] in favour of the lapse of private property into the common fund at the death of each person ..."

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