“FOR THE GOOD OF THE ORDER”
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Chicago, April 5, 1912.
Dear Comrade of the Christian Socialist Fellowship:
Rev. Wm. A. Ward, with great courage and loyalty, took up the work of the Fellowship as General Secretary when the treasury was empty,...
Sept 30 1903
Mr. Edwin Markham
Westerleigh
Staten Island N.Y.
Dear Mr. Markham:
Your notes of the 3” and 7” inst. In reference to the poem of Mr. Max Ehrmann were received during my absence from the city and I note with regret that you do not...
1419 Bolton St.,
Baltimore, Md., Feb. 22, 1915.
My dear Mrs. Markham,
When we were arranging for the coming general conference of the Christian Socialist Fellowship, I begged the Hospitality Committee to give Mrs. Tappan and me the pleasure of...
Grinnell, Iowa, May 13, 1899.
My dear friend Markham:-
It was a joy to get your word of greeting. Some times I get very tired of heart and rather battle-stricken in the midst of the holy war, and it is only through the fellowship of such spirits as...
La Primola,
5 Via Benedetto da Maiano,
S. Domenico di Fiesole,
Florence, Italy.
September 2, 1912.
Prof. Jno Ward Stimson,
“The Uplands”,
Redding, Connecticut.
Dear Friend:-
I cannot tell you how sorry we were not to have come to you in...
December 16, 1912
Mr. Edward Markham,
West New Brighton,
Staten Island,
New York City.
Dear Friend:
Your good letter at hand. I deeply regret that my health will not permit me to visit you and Mrs. Markham in your home. I am obliged to be in the...
Riverdale Children's Association; Colored Orphan Asylum (New York, N.Y.); Association for the Benefit of Colored Orphans (New York, N.Y.); Charities--New York (State)--New York; Children, Black--New York (State)--New York; African American...
The records of the Colored Orphan Asylum document the activities of the institution from 1836 to 1972, with the bulk of the records falling between 1850 and 1936. The records include minutes of general meetings, the Executive Committee, the...
A Resolution of the Independent Auctioneers Association, of which Mr. Benjamin Greenfield was a member, expressing their deepest sorry and sympathies on the death of Herman Greenfield.
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Athol; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated December 26, 1845, from Lysander Spooner in Athol [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Boston [Massachusetts], expressing desire to distribute his book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery] to members of the United States...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Winchendon; Abolitionists--Ohio--Cleveland; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated March 5, 1847, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Winchendon [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Cleveland, Ohio, expressing his frustration at the actions of several prominent abolitionists, including William Lloyd Garrison and...
Two-page letter dated May 27, 1851, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, suggesting that Bradburn gain communication with [Frederick] Douglass through Gerrit Smith, but then expressing his dislike for Smith.
Antislavery movements--United States; American presidential elections; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Three-page letter dated May 25, 1856, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to [George] Bradburn, expressing his ambivalence towards the upcoming United States Presidential election.
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a seven-page letter dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his...
Seven-page letter and envelope dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his dismay at the negative tone of their...
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.
Vigilant Association of the City of New York; Libel and slander--New York (State)--New York
Four-page letter from Gerrit Smith in New York [City] to C. B. Sedgwick dated September 15, 1860, expressing the regret of the "Committee" [of the Vigilant Association of the City of New York] for libel against Smith.
