Creator:
Hooper, Samuel, 1808-1875.
Inclusive Dates:
1856- 1874
Abstract:
Papers of the American merchant, legislator from Massachusetts. Twenty items of outgoing correspondence about politics (Schuyler Colfax), interpretation of the usury law (Nahum Capen), as well as social invitations (Adam Badeau, Benjamin Perley Poore) and a letter of introduction (Charles Sumner).
Type of Material:
Letters (correspondence)
Subject:
Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1877.
Legislators.
Politicians.
Politics, government and public administration
Legislators -- United States.
Politicians -- United States.
Usury laws -- United States.
Creator:
Newman, F. W. (Francis William), 1805-1897.
Inclusive Dates:
1864- 1905
Abstract:
Papers of the British scholar, man of letters. Seventy-six letters written between 1864 and 1897 to Moncure Daniel Conway on a variety of topics including politics, religion, and social reform.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Scholars.
Activism and social reform
Literature -- British
Civil War (U.S.)
Abolitionists -- Great Britain.
Capital punishment.
Free schools.
Free will and determinism.
Irish question.
Marriage law.
Prostitution.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Scholars -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements.
Slavery -- United States.
Social reformers.
Temperance.
Creator:
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1762- 1962
Abstract:
Papers of the social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York. Business, family and general correspondence; business and land records; writings; and maps. Notable correspondents include Susan B.
Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry Ward Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Maria Child, Cassius Clay,
Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, Frederick
Douglass, Albert G. Finney, Sarah Grimke, Elizabeth Cady and Henry B. Stanton,
Louis Tappan, Sojourner Truth, and Theodore Weld.
Type of Material:
Agreements.
Bank statements.
Bonds (negotiable instruments)
Broadsides (notices)
Check stubs.
Correspondence.
Deeds.
Estate records.
Indentures.
Judicial records.
Land registers.
Land surveys.
Maps (documents)
Pamphlets.
Sermons.
Summonses.
Warrant books.
Wills.
Subject:
Madison County (N.Y.) -- History.
New York (State) -- History -- 1775-1865.
Peterboro (N.Y.) -- History.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Abolitionists.
Social reformers.
Business and Industry
New York State
Politics, government and public administration
Activism and social reform
Abolitionists -- United States.
Antislavery movements -- United States.
Social reformers -- United States.
Temperance.
Women -- Suffrage -- United States.
Creator:
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874.
Inclusive Dates:
1848- 1861
Abstract:
Papers of the U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, orator, author. Collection consists of one outgoing letter each to James A. Dix (1861) and Henry Dilworth Gilpin (1848), and one undated incoming letter from Benjamin Perley Poore.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Subject:
Authors.
Legislators.
Politics, government and public administration
Authors, American.
Legislators, United States.