Jan 18, 1920.
My dear Percy Sickney Grant:
We are all watching with keen interest the swirl of events connected with free speech, and the swirl has especial interest for we since you are involved in it. I am aware of your brave and honorable words;...
West New Brighton, N.Y., Aug. 7, 1932.
My dear Mary Steward:
At last, after many adventures in the world of affairs, I have reached your welcome letter of April 23rd. I am glad that you included your reply to my poem The Man with the Hoe. I never...
Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action
Discussion topics for February 14, 1954 Interracial Club Smoker
including:
"1. What social contacts have you had outside of college with people of other races and nationalities?
2. In what fields did these contacts lie?
3. Has your family...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Maine--Bangor; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated September 8, 1845, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Bangor [Maine] to Lysander Spooner of Boston, Massachusetts, describing several newspaper and circular reviews of Spooner's book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery],...
Four-page letter and envelope dated August 21, 1881, from Daniel McFarland [possibly in South Bend, Indiana] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, expressing affection and describing his circumstances.
Four-page letter and envelope dated February 3, 1897, from Daniel McFarland in South Bend, Indiana to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, inquiring about mutual acquaintances and briefly discussing several of Spooner's pamphlets.
One-page letter from Lewis Tappan in New York [City] to Lysander Spooner dated May 28, 1853, disucssing the legal aspects of a court case involving a one Jane Trainer [?].
Remarks given [probably by Samuel or William Vernon] regarding a case against Captain Thomas Rogers, who is accused of producing falsified trade books and trading to his own benefit in Barbados, Cape de Verdes, St. Christopher, and Isle de Los....
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...
