Skip to main content

Currently showing 1 results of 1.


1.

Collection Title:
Creator:
Bliss, J. S.
Inclusive Dates:
1867-1882
Abstract:
Papers of the Wisconsin-based lecture agent and promoter who arranged for both American and European speakers to tour the American West. Includes incoming letters from social reformers, political activists, authors, journalists, and performers concerning arrangements for their lecture tours. Letters include discussions of lecture fees, subject matter of lectures, scheduling, and accommodations. Correspondents include Charles Bradlaugh, B. Gratz Brown, Jason Mason Brown, Ned Buntline, Will Carleton, Lewis Carmichael, Mrs. Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Robert Laird Collier, Russell Conwell, Charlotte Cushman, Washington Donaldson, Neal Dow, Paul DuChaillu, Volney French, Grace Greenwood, Asa Burnham Hutchinson, Judson Kilpatrick, Dio Lewis, David Locke, Olive Logan, J.E. McCarthy, John J. Pinkerton, John Wesley Powell, Abby Sage Richardson, John Ripley, John Godfrey Saxe, John Strachan, David Swing, Benjamin Franklin Taylor, George Francis Train, O.P. Whitcomb, Victoria Woodhull, and others.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Commercial agents.
Lecturers.
Activism and social reform
Commercial agents -- United States.
Lecturers -- United States.
Lectures and lecturing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Lectures and lecturing -- Economic aspects.
Lyceums -- United States.
Social reformers -- Correspondence.