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Criticizes Buenaventura Baez, President of the Dominican Republic. Kinsley apparently informed Sumner of a dinner for Baez. He states in full, "A Dinner to Baez! Why not invite the murderer of the Virginius crew? At least please read an authentic...

GLC02095.18

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Autograph note signed

[Quotation of Charles Sumner on the struggle to end slavery]

18 May 1858

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Complete quotation reads: "Our cause is nobler even than that of our Fathers, in as much as it is more exalted to struggle for the Freedom of others than for our own."

GLC02095.26

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Ephemera

[Check signed by Charles Sumner]

January 13, 1873

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Check for $51.17 payable to Mr. Beckwith Huntly from the First National Bank, Washington, D.C. Signed by Sumner. Endorsed on verso. With US inter-revenue stamp.

GLC02095.32

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Autograph note signed

[Note declining Charles Sumner's attendance at Mr. Lincoln's circle]

6 January 1862-1865

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Signed in text. Dated 6 January, no year specified. States that Sumner regrets not being able to attend "Mr. Lincoln's circle," to be held that evening, due to the state of his health.

GLC02095.09

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Autograph letter signed

to Epes Sargent

15 September 1863

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Sumner thanks Sargent for his sympathetic praise. Writes, "The verses on Shaw I had enjoyed before, & had sent to England," likely a reference to Sargent's poem, "Colonel Shaw: On Hearing that the Rebels Had Buried His Body Under a Pile of Twenty...

GLC02095.12

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Pamphlet

Mr. Sumner's Lecture on White Slavery in the Barbary States.

1847

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

Sumner's lecture given before the Boston Mercantile Library Association, 17 February 1847. Published by William D. Ticknor and Company. Printed in Cambridge by Metcalf and Company, printers to the University. Inscribed on the original orange cover...

GLC02095.19