Paul writes that he has been placed in the signal corps because of his background in engineering. He is glad that he is useful and gives him the morale boost he was looking for. His battalion has just been named: the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion,...
Correspondence; Military hospitals; Convalescent hospitals; War; Military mobilizations; Military training; Bombardment; Air warfare; Social classes; Farming;
Bill tells Marjorie that the IB has regained some of the land they lost in the retreats from the previous spring. In the action, Bill was hit by shrapnel and was evacuated to a hospital, where he is currently recovering. Bill gives Marjorie the...
Jim discusses reading material with his brother. Gives Ring an update on the current politics of Spain. Discusses the Communists and the Radical Socialists, who are anti-fascist but seem not to be pro-Popular Front. He discusses the government of...
Typewriters; Military occupations; Fascists; Weddings; Employment; Newspaper industry; Travel; Homesickness;
Jim writes to his brother about working with a difficult writer, Marcel Rivet, who has taken Jim's typewriter. He has enclosed a story by Rivet that Jim helped edit in English. He is hoping that if Ring can sell the story, it might encouraged...
Military training; Military life; Friendship; Translators; Soldiers; Communists;
Jim writes to his mother that he is back at camp after having spent 10 days at a school for corporals. He said the training was more mental than physical and he spent his spare time writing for the school's newspaper. Jim gives his mother a run...
The back of the postcard gives the history of the Empire State Building site:, "In 1799 a man named Thompson owned a farm at what is now Fifth Avenue and Thirty-fourth Street, New York City. He later sold it and in 1827 the Astor Mansions were...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Illinois--Chicago; Antislavery movements--United States
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a four-page letter dated April 12, 1845, from Thomas Earle in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania] to G. [George] Bradburn, in which he gives lengthy critique of Lysander Spooner's book [probably The...
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 from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated March 18, 1871, praising Spooner's "treatise on money" and discussing the topic of monetary systems.
Slaves--Kentucky--Lincoln County; Slavery--Kentucky--Lincoln County
Two-page deed of gift between E. Pennington and his three daughters, wherein he gives to Lerisa Shanks the slave woman Mary, to Paulina H. Fisher the slave girl named Aggy, and to Martha Isabella Omsley the slave girl Ruth, in Lincoln County,...
Fragments of an account book for the Brig Othello between years 1768 through 1769. Includes names of multiple vendors, and gives detailed lists of slave purchases on the Coast of Africa.
Four-page list of "hands on the farm at Terre au Beouf [Boeuf]" [of Louisiana] compiled by S. B. Davis, Mrs. R. Smith, P. C. Wederstrandt, and Henry Thompson. Includes names of 77 slaves listed by gender. List contributed by Thompson also gives...
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...
Sierra Leone Company; African American loyalists--Nova Scotia; African American loyalists--Sierra Leone; African Americans--Colonization--Nova Scotia; African Americans--Colonization--Sierra Leone; Freetown (Sierra Leone) -- History; Abolitionists;...
John Clarkson (1764-1828) was an English abolitionist, agent for the Sierra Leone Company, and lieutenant in the British Royal Navy. The collection consists of Clarkson's manuscripts, written in journal form, of his involvement with the settlement...
