Charles Sumner scrapbook, ca. 1624-1865.

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Charles Sumner scrapbook, ca. 1624-1865.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612819079

Includes letters to Sumner and materials he collected such as printed and manuscript ephemera: tickets, broadsides, proclamations, prints, menus, engravings, portraits, paper money, theatre programs, invitations, and much more. Many items annotated by Sumner. Also includes official documents, some for sale of slaves.

1 volume (.2 linear ft.)

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Houghton Library

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Houghton Library

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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Massachusetts lawyer and U.S. Senator, 1851-1874. He was an ardent abolitionist who attacked the south in his "crime against Kansas" speech in 1856. Two days later he was assaulted in the Senate, receiving injuries that took him years to recover from. From the description of Letters, 1858-1869. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 55768315 Born in Boston, Mass., the U.S. statesman Charles Sumner studied law at Harvard and practiced law in his native ci...