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1885/12/24
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910
to Yale Law school.
Offers to fund a black student's education to Yale Law School: "we have ground the manhood out of them & the shame is ours, not theirs."
GLC07971
1889/11/26
Jeffery, Aaron, fl. 1855-1900
Written the night Maimie went to St. Louis
Poem entitled "Written the night Maimie went to St. Louis." Four stanzas describing how the author [Jeffery] misses Maimie although he only brought her to the train an hour before. He takes comfort in the thought that their love binds them together...
GLC01896.121
1878
Brown, John Jr., 1821-1895
to Alexander M. Ross [Fragment]
Second page of a two page letter, first page missing. Thanks the recipient for sending him a copy of "The Lincoln Memorial Album." Says the recipient's contribution to the book "interested me greatly" and that "I had not before quite understood...
GLC03007.07
13 April 1879
Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926
to Alexander M. Ross
Thanks him for "placing my father before the world in his true light" with "a truthful and just estimate of his character and motives" in his writings for the public. Mentions that she was with John Brown just two weeks before his raid, and that she...
GLC03007.08
22 February 1880
Thanks him for the books he sent, offers to send him "curiosities" from California, such as plants. Praises him for his friendship with and appreciation of Thoreau.
GLC03007.09
15 January 1882
Inquires after an extra copy of a pamphlet detailing the events which took place in Harper's Ferry. She details information of the publisher, Osborn P. Anderson, a free Black man who was with Brown at Harper's Ferry. Expresses hope that Anderson was...
GLC03007.10
16 January 1886
One lettera ddressed to Alexander M. Ross from Anne Brown Adams dated January 16, 1886. Mentions hardships of motherhood and awaiting word from a publisher to printpapers that she spent. Thanks him for suggesting soda as a remedy for her sore throat...
GLC03007.13
2 January 1887
One letter from Anne Brown Adams to Alexander M. Ross dated July 31, 1887. Pertains to one of her children receiving a vaccaniation, their illness and her opinion of Franklin Sanborn's book which mentions her father. Cannot believe "that people would...
GLC03007.14
31 July 1887
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
19 October 1887
Discusses the Alcott family in Concord and her approval of sick patients eating very little. Inquires after the Alcott family, with whom she used to live. Mentions Louisa May Alcott. States her firm belief that underfeeding sick patients can be...
GLC03007.16
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