W.H. Furness letters to Dr. Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson, 1856-1887

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W.H. Furness letters to Dr. Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson, 1856-1887

1856-1887

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The majority of the letters discuss the health of Senator Charles Sumner, recovering from the beating he received from Congressman Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina two days after Sumner's speech against the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It took three years for Sumner to recover from the beating.The collection contains five letters from W.H. Furness, Philadelphia, to Dr. Robert Montgomery Smith Jackson: 10 Sept. 1856, concerning a patient [Sumner] who convalesced in the Alleghenies and "acquired a geological habit of mind," and comments on the pro-slavery miscreants who may have murdered a unitarian clergyman from Lawrence, Kansas; 10 Oct. 1856, Mr. Sumner's recuperation in the mountains and the doctor's unhappiness with the Wilson correspondence concerning Sumner's medical treatment and printing a letter without benefit of Jackson's reply; 8 Oct. 1859, they couldn't wait for his reply to publish the other doctors' letters, Sumner's health; 23 Aug. 1960, humorous explanation about mountain formations with two drawings and praise for Jackson's book, The Mountain, noting "Mr. E. (R.W.E.) [Ralph Waldo Emerson] is delighted with Dr. J's book;"undated, a message of friendship and hope; one letter to Dr. Roelker, Cincinnati, Ohio, 15 April 1863, introducing Dr. Jackson, accompanied by a card from geologist J. Peter Lesley noting that Jackson is and old and dear friend; [1887] to Jackson's daughter, with religious sentiments.

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Lesley, J. Peter, 1819-1903

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Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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