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to Henry Needham

Discusses the political timing of his return from safari. Mentions a possible trip to India and editing his book.

GLC03663.02

Message from the President of the United States...

Title continues, "... communicating, In compliance with a resolution of the Senate, copies of correspondence in relation to the mutiny on board the brig Creole, and the liberation of the slaves who were passengers in the said vessel." 27th Congress...

GLC05793

New York Colonization Society certificate of membership for Alexander Fraser

Certificate of membership for life for Alexander Fraser of Fowlerville. The certificate has a large engraving at top showing a white man shaking the hands of thankful naked Africans while a ship rides at anchor in the background. Two scriptural...

GLC05781

Guildhall Speech re: Great Britain, Egypt and South Africa [fragment]

Twelve pages total. The first two typed leaves are non-consecutive and unnumbered, the third page is numbered "8", the fourth "11" and the fifth "14"; two smaller leaves written in TR's hand are labeled "A" (4 pp.) and "B" (3 pp.). Typed speech...

GLC05798

to Theodore Sedgwick

Tappan, an abolitionist supporting the freedom of the Amistad Africans, discusses a letter from Roger Sherman Baldwin to Sedgwick. States that Mr. B. (Baldwin) requests the advice of Sedgwick and Seth Staples regarding the trial. Refers to Judge T...

GLC05799