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[Allegorical verses on slavery]

circa 1850s

Longfellow, Henry W., 1807-1882

Written in Harriet Beecher Stowe's hand. Her clipped signature ("H B Stowe") has been pasted to the end of the poem. Despite being in Stowe's hand and having the addition of Stowe's signature, both poems are actually 1842 works on slavery by Henry...

GLC05570

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Photograph signed

Carte de visite bust portrait

1861 ca.

Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868

GLC05596.18

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Photograph signed

Carte de visite vignette bust portrait

1861 ca.

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

(Somewhat better version in GLC 2095.) Signed on front: "Charles Sumner"

GLC05597.23

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Autograph letter signed

to unknown

7 August 1855

Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869

Directed to "Gentlemen." Agrees to deliver a lecture on slavery during the upcoming winter, noting, "I shall fail to say anything possessing either novelty or merit upon a topic which has been more profoundly and carefully discussed in Boston than...

GLC05603.01.25

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Autograph note signed

to unknown

December 1855

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

Will forward an autograph. Date from docket.

GLC05603.01.29

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Autograph note signed

to Colonel Shank

29 December 1858