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18 April 1860
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
to Oliver Johnson
Requests Johnson to mail him a copy of the "Independent" containing Beecher's speech at Cooper Institute on women's rights.
GLC03998.03
6 June 1883
to Mr. Kip
Declines an invitation from H. G. Chapman to attend the Hemenway Gymnasium on class day.
GLC03998.04
1 October 1850
to Francis Jackson
Requests Jackson to sign a statement in support of women's rights and to ask Theodore Parker to do the same. Sends his admiration of Jackson's niece's sketch of Parker and promises to sit for her when he returns to Boston. Encloses a letter from...
GLC03998.05
1811-1884
Peace if possible -- Justice at any rate.
GLC03998.06
circa 1871
to George William Curtis
Requests details on Curtis's interview with Grant. Asks if he has heard anyone besides Grant assert that Massachusetts Senator Charles Sumner was removed from chairmanship of the Committee on Foreign Relations because of negligence. Curtis was...
GLC03998.07
12 October 1781
Wigglesworth, Edward, 1732-1794
At a meeting of the Corporation of Harvard College.
Copy of Harvard Corporation's vote of thanks to Granville Sharp of London for a donation of a six volume Polyglot Bible and seven copies of Sharp's "The Law of Retribution" to Harvard's library. The copy was sent by Wigglesworth to William Knox...
GLC02437.01220
ca. 1840-1890
Webb, Maria, 1804-1873
[Scrapbook of Maria Webb]
Bound collection of letters from leading abolitionists of the period, including Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others.
GLC08360
28 June 1879
Whittier, John G., 1807-1892
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
circa 1872-1874
Currier & Ives
Lithograph of Frederick Douglass
Circa dates based on several sources, indicating Currier and Ives' location at 125 Nassau St. between 1872 and 1874.
GLC08630.03
7 August 1855
Raymond, Henry J. (Henry Jarvis), 1820-1869
to unknown
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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