Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874.
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letters, notes, and fragments from New York State luminaries
Collection — Manuscript box 21 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065243358]
Identifier: 115m
Scope and content
Routine letters and notes signed by famous New Yorkers, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Alice Stone Blackwell, William Henry Seward, Russell Sage, Moses Coit Tyler, Jacob Gould Schurman, and Edward Eggleston. The letter from Stanton and one of the notes from Schurman is a fragment. Stanton's letter expresses her reaction to the tributes received on her 70th birthday. The letter from Seward (1864), written on Department of State letterhead, is addressed to Charles Sumner, Chairman of the...
Dates:
circa 1851-1902.
Social issues pamphlet collection
Collection
Identifier: 1220
Abstract
Pamphlets on social issues at the local, state, and national levels in the United States, with local and state pamphlets focused mainly but not exclusively on New York State or its localities. Topics include education, religion and moral issues, politics (especially surrounding the issue of slavery and the Civil War), temperance, agriculture, and railroads. Also included are pamphlets relating to libraries, historical societies, and history, as well as literary pamphlets (literary essays,...
Dates:
1806-1960-(bulk 1840-1880).
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- Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Oneida County. 1
- Agricultural exhibitions -- New York (State) -- Queens County. 1
- Agriculture -- United States. 1
- Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- New York (State) 1
- Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- United States. 1
- Baptists -- United States. 1
- Church and state -- United States. 1
- Congregationalists -- United States. 1
- Congressional addresses 1
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Germany 1
- Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- United States 1
- Episcopalians -- United States. 1
- Essays -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Eulogies 1
- Evangelistic work. 1
- Philosophy -- Study and teaching -- New York (State) -- Ithaca. 1
- Poetry 1
- Poetry -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Presbyterians -- United States. 1
- Prohibition -- United States. 1
- Railroads -- United States. 1
- Revivals -- United States. 1
- Slavery -- United States. 1
- Speeches, addresses, etc. -- United States -- 19th century 1
- Temperance -- Germany. 1
- Temperance -- United States. 1
- Thanksgiving Day sermons 1
- United States -- Foreign relations. 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. 1 + ∧ less
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