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to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: a thank you letter for the Toledo Report

The letter also wishes that all members "belonged to the American W.S.A."

GLC06895.03

to Mrs. Edward Bissel re: a letter acompanying leaflets

Leaflets started as "Almost anything will pass muster if well read....& the best thing can be spoiled if badly read."

GLC06895.02

to Mrs. Edward Bissell re: receiving funds for NAWSA

The letter also requests any letters written to Sarah Secor (Mrs. Edward) Bissell.

GLC06895.01

to E.K. May

The letter discusses reform for hardened criminals. Hayes wants as much reform as possible, but those not able to reform should stay in prison indefinitely - "no cure no release."

GLC00118.01.01

Woman's co-operation essential to pure politics.

Transcript of a speech given by Hoar, a noted supporter of women's suffrage. Pamphlet published under the auspices of American Woman Suffrage Association. Date from a letter cited in the piece.

GLC06306.01

to Amy Post

Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...

GLC05819

to Alexander M. Ross

One letter addressed to Alexander Ross from Anne Brown Adams dated July 31, 1887. Mentions the health of her children and reading The Life of Frederick Douglass. Does not find truth in Douglass's account of meeting John Brown. Believes that Uncle Tom...

GLC03007.15

to Alexander M. Ross [Incomplete]

Defending her father, John Brown, against what appear to be statements that he took money and used it for personal needs. Concludes that Mary Stearns' "mind must be disordered" with age due to statements that she made. The statements seem to imply...

GLC03007.50

to E. F. Strickland

Mahone replies to correspondence from Reverend Strickland in Des Moines, Iowa. Notes that he has not forgotten Strickland's former request. Writes, "I would hope the God given Spirit of Liberty may never tire- not before, its blessings are freely...

GLC04733

to Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson

Abolitionist and suffragist Foster responds to questions from Robinson who was doing research for her book, "Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774 to 1881" (Boston, 1881). Foster...

GLC02076

to Emily Collins

Douglass offers his home as a place to stay during her attendance at the eleventh annual meeting of the American Woman Suffrage Association, to be held in District of Columbia in early January 1880. Emily Parmely Collins worked for women's rights in...

GLC01197

to Mr. Johnson re: work on civil service reform

Written as Civil Service Commissioner

GLC03339

to Mr. Northend

Discusses advertisements in The Nation, a liberal periodical devoted to politics and culture of which he was editor from 1865-1906. Recalls an excursion he took with his father, William Lloyd Garrison toward the end of his life. Talks of his fear...

GLC07483.07

to Richard Henry Dana

Cooley writes from the American Proportional Representation League to Dana, lawyer and son of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. States "In view of the national conference for good city government to be held in Philadelphia the 25th instant, permit me to call...

GLC03481.23

to Maria Child

Discusses the Yearly Quaker Meeting he just returned from, in addition to speakers at Garrison's funeral and William Lloyd Garrison's views on the after life. Whittier is "shocked by the barbarism & superstition of our popular faith." He says...

GLC05508.262.01

to May Delany

To "the daughter of the daughter of my friend who sheltered me forty and five years ago, when I was a man without a country, a stranger and or sojourner, with little money and few friends, shall now have my autograph. No effort of memory is required...

GLC05906

to James J. Meyers re: support of Henry Cabot Lodge for Civil Service reform, &c

With TR's autograph pen corrections on p. 2. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.

GLC06622.01

to James J. Meyers re: detailing Lodge's support for Civil Service reform

With TR's autograph pen corrections on both pages. On stationery of the United States Civil Service Commission.

GLC06622.02

to Wendell P. Garrison

Answers questions about William Lloyd Garrison. Comments on his 1833 trip to England, at which time "he was indicted for a libel, by several of the persecutors, of Miss." Explains how he, Lewis Tappan, and others helped Garrison escape apprehension...

GLC08944

to Alexander M. Ross

Discusses Mary Stearns and a fund to help her family. Explains that Mrs. Stearns liked her father, but not his family, recounts a story of her unkindness, and wonders if Stearns has become infirm in her old age. Adams claims to hold no grudge...

GLC03007.38

to Charles T. Congdon

To Charles T. Congdon of the New York Tribune. Douglass thanks Congdon for his recently published reminiscences of Charles Sumner. "It was not merely the seed time of a great harvest, but the hard time when old and knarly oaks were to be hewed down...

GLC09238

The United States citizen's vote that Mr. Justice Hunt declared $100 damage...

"You have reason to exult, that you are a 'freeborn American' and I wish you may never be ashamed to boast of it. In all cases remember, that birth, without wisdom, is reproach and disgrace."

GLC07753.01