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to his parents, brother-in-law, and sister

Writes that he is alright and has survived the march. General William T. Sherman's army is in front of Savannah, Georgia. The army has captured Fort McAllister at the mouth of the Ogeechee River. This allows the Union forces to have communication...

GLC07460.108

to his parents, brother-in-law, and sister

Writes that the mail is becoming somewhat regular as more has come in today and is being sent out as well. He is happy to report that their camp situation has improved from when he last wrote. The regiment has advanced into the trenches around...

GLC07460.109

to his parents, brother-in-law, and sister

It is almost impossible to receive or sent out any mail, the last letter he received from home was from 25 December. They are about 23 miles from Savannah, Georgia. It has been raining so hard for the past few days that it was nearly impossible to...

GLC07460.111

to Messrs Walker and Wise

Letter of introduction for a Mr. F.M. Adlington of Weymouth. Garrison calls him "a very worthy citizen, possessing a talent for versification, and using it for many years past in the service of freedom, temperance, and other good causes." Informs...

GLC07483.05

to the Editor of the Tribune

Complains that the Tribune misused a statement made by him to Wendell Phillips at the recent meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society. The statement concerned John C. Fremont, who was active in the Radical Republicans, a group of hard-line...

GLC07483.06

to Morse

Francis J. Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison's son and biographer informs Morse that he has found a room in a boarding house for him on Highland St. for $10 a week. Describes the room in detail. Asks if he would like to arrange to see it and to...

GLC07483.09

to W. W. Greenough

Mentions his note that Greenough would like to read to the trustees. Discusses the board of trustees' objection to comments made by a Mr. Caper. States that Mr. Caper felt the charge against him of dilatoriness was exaggerated. Possibly speaking...

GLC07483.12

Memories of Wendell Phillips.

Essay of Smalley's personal memories of Wendell Phillips. Printed in the June 1894 edition of Harpers.

GLC07483.13

[Wendell Phillips]

Bust portrait engraving of Wendell Phillips as a young man. With his printed signature under the image.

GLC07483.14

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Lee requests Hunt's presence, but notes "The stage [inserted: U. S. mail coach] is slow, & regulated on the plan of Sumner's civil rights bill. (crowded with niggers) You might be wanting in some gallant attentions to a colored lady, & be legislated...

GLC02382.083

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Discusses an unspecified case with Hunt, and notes that Hunt is engaged in political service. Remarks "I wish you would solve that mystery of the Ku Klux. It is not all a dream. There must be some waking reality in it." Mentions General Ethan...

GLC02382.091

to Henry Jackson Hunt

States "I say you are still fit for the tented field; full pay; and to hold your own with any hero or patriot of them all (even with Cullum- I will tell you, someday, why I put him first)." Scolds Hunt for going to Little Rock, Arkansas because...

GLC02382.098

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Relates that he is leaving Washington to travel to St. Louis, Missouri. Notes that Senator Ambrose Burnside (a Civil War General) is doing well but may need looking after. Mentions Representative Walsh (possibly William Walsh, a Representative from...

GLC02382.096

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Requests information from Hunt regarding Robert E. Lee's heroic crossing of the pedregal (a lava field) during the Mexican American war. This inquiry is for Emily V. Mason, who is writing a pictorial school book on the life of Lee. Mentions...

GLC02382.086

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Mentions Emily Virginia Mason's biography of Robert E. Lee, for which Hunt supplied information. Discusses a compromise of Hunt's integrity, apparently regarding fabrications published about Hunt's false involvement with the Ku Klux Klan. States...

GLC02382.089

[Journal of General Henry Jackson Hunt]

First third of this journal is war date and primarily war-related: lists of corps, artillery returns, morning reports, etc. through 1865. Probably created principally in Virginia in 1864 and early 1865 (the Army of the Potomac was then engaged in...

GLC02382.205

[Scammon endorsement on a letter from Marshall Darr]

Major and Provost Marshall Darr writes to Colonel Scammon of the 23rd Ohio to say that Major McPhail needs to know who his servants are. With autograph endorsement signed of Scammon giving the names of his two colored servants, William Woodyear, and...

GLC02414.103

to Henry Jackson Hunt

Thanks Hunt for the memorial he wrote after the death of her father, Harvey Brown. Writes "... we, Father's nearest and dearest, feel that full justice has been done... and that your writing his record has given additional honor to his memory. The...

GLC02382.206

to Mary Bethune Craig Hunt

Hunt discusses the events following the so-called Kirk-Holden war of 1870. Mentions "scrape Stephen Douglas has put himself into." Cites possibility of being called to enforce a district court action against North Carolina governor William Woods...

GLC02382.218

Gerrit Smith and the Vigilant Association of the City of New York

correspondence between Chas D. Miller, Samuel L. Barlowe and Royal Phelps

GLC08880.005

Race or Humanity?

sermon given in King's Chapel, Boston

GLC08880.006

Conditions Affecting the Suffrage in the Colonies

GLC08880.098

Douglas and the Compromise of 1850

GLC08880.142

[Appointment of Commissioners for Augusta County, Virginia]

Harrison, Governor of Virginia, appoints Commissioners "for the purpose of trying, condemning and executing, or otherwise punishing and acquitting, any slave committing a capital crime within the said County..." Appoints James Powell Cocke, John...

GLC08884

The Constitution of the New-Jersey Society, for the Promoting of Abolition of Slavery...

GLC08896

Minutes of the Proceedings of the Second Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled in Philadelphia ...

GLC08897

to James B. McPherson

Major General Hurlbut writes to Major General McPherson, commander of the Department of the Tennessee, about military strategy and organization. Counsels against consolidating "Memphis & Vicksburgh into the 'District of the Miss. River." Outlines...

GLC08901

to Abraham Lincoln

Intensely vitriolic letter sent to President Lincoln shortly after his election: "God damn your god damned old Hellfired soul to hell god damn you...Now you God damned old Abolition son of a bitch God damn you..." Attached to a board with a...

GLC08904

to William B. Stone

Discusses debts and financial arrangements. Also comments on slaves being used as collateral: "We regret that you have had so much trouble with Keybird the lien on the Negroes is ample security for our debt." Hopkins Brothers was a commission firm...

GLC08905

to Jason Brown and others

Discusses the fighting between pro-slavey and anti-slavery activists in Kansas. Explains that "Events of the most stirring character are now passing within hearing distance...more than 200 shots have been fired within the past half hour, and within...

GLC08906

[Pay and Muster roll with wages for former slaves]

Lists approximately 100 freedmen by name on the "Mdme. Rosts Hermitage Plantation, Parish St. Charles," Louisiana, who were under the charge of Federal officer Henry B. Fitch. Next to their names are their ages and wages. In some cases there are...

GLC08912

to Nelson Rifenburgh

Stationery includes a stamp of the likeness of General George McClellan. Finally has gotten a little bit of time to write. Is working as a hospital steward. "Could not spend those [leisure] moments in a better way" than writing to him. Supposes he...

GLC08914.012

to brother and sister

Glad to have received their letter. Is healthy; hopes this letter finds them in a similar condition. Has orders to head up the Mississippi River with 140 rounds worth of cartridges each. Thinks he is heading to battle. Is taking blankets and his...

GLC08914.020

to unknown

Account of New York City Draft Riots from an unidentified soldier signed "Will." Explains that he joined the "Citizens Brigade at the 7th Military headquarters" and was "ordered out to shoot down the riot." Discusses how "The Rebels were on the...

GLC08920

to Walter Harris

Replies to Harris letter, written and signed 1 March 1904, inquiring if Cleveland "entertained a negro, C.H.J. Taylor, of Kansas, at dinner" at the White House during his presidency. He heard the information in a speech given on the floor of the...

GLC08931

Memorial to Congress, Adopted at a Meeting of Citizens at the Rooms of the Chamber of Commerce

Signed in print by William A. Booth as committee chair and twenty seven other New Yorkers. The memorial, printed a few months before the outbreak of the Civil War, was made in an effort to maintain peace. It appointed a committee that met on 26...

GLC08932

to Horatio Hale

Letter to her brother Horatio, sent upon docking in New York on her way to Georgia. She talks briefly about life on board the ship, including dining with several men from her hometown of Hartford, and complains that they docked in New York three...

GLC08934.001

to Sarah W. Hale

This letter is from Horatio Hale to his sister Sarah, written from Brazil. In the letter, he refers several time to Sarah's health, advising her to show "a degree of fortitude beyond most of your sex," because he thinks that positive thinking has a...

GLC08934.016

to Horatio Hale

This letter to her brother may have gotten wet at some point, because much of the text is blurred and difficult to read. She mentions concerns about "negroes" several times during the letter, saying that an area which she traveled to (the name is...

GLC08934.019

to Sarah W. Hale

This appears to be the first letter to her sister in many months. She speaks at length about matrimony and says that she has spent eighteen months deliberating on it. She says that she has been reflecting on whether to "marry a respectable, pious and...

GLC08934.025

to Sarah W. Hale

She expresses that she is deeply unhappy with their move to Mount Meigs following her husband buying land in the area, saying that although being a planter in the area can be very lucrative (which she measures in money and in number of slaves), it is...

GLC08934.026

to Sarah W. Hale

She is sad that she is separated from her friends and family, and urges her sister to come visit if her physcians will permit it, and asks if their brother James can loan them the money for travel or if she will have to borrow it. She also suggests...

GLC08934.027

to Sarah W. Hale

She addresses the logistics of her sister Sarah's planned visit and promises to pay the full cost. She enclosed $50 with the letter and promises to send another $50 soon. She expresses concern for Sarah's health, writing that she hopes it will...

GLC08934.028

to Sarah W. Hale

She encloses another $50 in this letter as promised, and continues to plan for her sister's arrival. She also speaks at length about the comforts of their home, including a "very valuable negro woman" who keeps the house "well attended to." She hopes...

GLC08934.029

to Sarah W. Hale

She continues to plan for her sister's arrival. She is very excited that they can "meet on this side of the grave again." A drought has made the river low, so Aurelia suggests her sister remain in Mobile until the steamboats start to run again. She...

GLC08934.030

to Sarah W. Hale

This letter was written shortly after Sarah departed from Alabama. In it, Aurelia says that she hopes Sarah was able to avoid the storm that came about a week after she left, which appears to have destroyed much of her property. She describes several...

GLC08934.031

to Sarah W. Hale

Aurelia is very glad to hear that Sarah managed to avoid the storm. It was followed by a drought, and they were afraid the crops would fail, but there has been rain this week. Her husband, Jefferson, has been trying to find work for Horatio, who has...

GLC08934.032

to James W. Hale, to Sarah W. Hale

There are two letters within a single folio. The first letter is to James W. Hale, and expresses regret that Sarah's time with them was not as pleasant or beneficial to her health as they had hoped. He goes on to discuss his attempts to find work for...

GLC08934.033

to Sarah W. Hale

The letter is dated August 26, but there is a notation halfway down the first page that much of it was written August 30. In the first part, she writes that there has been a good deal of rain and wind. In the second part, she writes that the cotton...

GLC08934.034

to Sarah W. Hale

This letter is dated September 2, but on the third page a notation indicates that several paragraphs were added on September 16. In the part of the letter dated September 2, Aurelia says that the Sabbath is often the only day she has time to write...

GLC08934.035