Drafts and notes, 1854-1912.

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Drafts and notes, 1854-1912.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612372694

The bulk of the collection is manuscripts, drafts, and notes for Rice's "Life of Eli Thayer." Includes material Rice collected about Thayer in interviews with him and from newspapers, a few letters and legal documents of Thayer, and material pertaining to the Emigrant Aid Society which Thayer founded during the struggle for Kansas. Also contains copies of vital records from towns in Worcester County that Rice used in other publications, and a small amount of correspondence concerning Rice's work in historical associations.

2 boxes (1 linear ft.)

Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7795392

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Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899

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Brown class of 1845; two-term Congressman (1857-61) from Worcester, Massachusetts; played a significant role in the founding and organization of the New England Emigrant Aid Company. From the description of Papers, 1843-1903. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122529135 American educator and inventor. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : New York and Worcester, Mass., to Silas Seymour, [1861 Sept.] and 1861 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270...

Rice, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1852-1919

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U.S. representative from Massachusetts, editor, and educator. From the description of The life of Eli Thayer : typescript, undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71132235 Franklin Pierce Rice (1852-1919), an historian and author of Worcester, Mass., was a founder of the Worcester Society of Antiquity. From the description of Drafts and notes, 1854-1912. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612372694 ...

New England Emigrant Aid Company

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Company organized in 1854 as the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to promote the settlement of Kansas by antislavery advocates as a result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act by the U.S. Congress in 1854; name changed in 1855. Of Boston, Mass. From the description of New England Emigrant Aid Company papers. [microform] / editor, Joseph W. Snell. Assistant editor: Eunice L. Schenck. Microfilm technician: George T. Hawley, 1854-1909. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat ...