A photograph of the Robbins-Wright house in Kensico. The siding on the house is coming off the builinding, and some of the roofing shingles have fallen to the ground. The wood and wire fence is also in a state of disrepair.
Convalescent hospitals; Military hospitals; Military tactics;
Postcard caption reads: Un aspecto del Parque. Jim writes to his mother while healing from a leg injury. He tells her he is improving slower than he expected. He has been in the hospital for 22 days. He says that all of his best friends survived...
Songs; Cursing; Military training; Rifles; Communism; Anarchism; Anarchists; Military occupations; Military regimes;
Harry is glad to have received Mim's letter and is touched that she thinks his cursing has increased since going to Spain. He writes about his good marksmanship and that he is a natural. He believes that his time is Spain will "straighten him...
Two letters from Lysander Spooner to George Bradburn. A two-page note dated June 21, 1845, notifying that Amasa Walker will be visiting the store of Emerson, Harris & Potter if Bradburn would like to see him. Followed by a one-page letter dated...
Two-page letter dated July 15, 1846, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Lowell, Massachusetts, discussing Bradburn's reports on schools in Nantucket and a speech made by Fletcher Webster.
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.
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Worcester [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith, dated March, 1850, in which Spooner accuses Gerrit of copyright infringement.
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
Seven-page manuscript draft of a letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated June 8, 1860, discussing a libel suit against several publishers.
Manuscript draft of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated August 29, 1860, discussing Smith's libel suit against [Royal] Phelps and others.
Three-page letter from Gerrit Smith of Peterboro [New York] to Theodore D. Weld in Manlius [New York] regarding the recent visit of David Cambell and the expected visit of Weld, Angelina Grimke and Sarah Grimke, among others.
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...