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Domestic relations -- United States.

 Subject
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Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Frederick Briggs letters : to James Russell Lowell

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 4625
Scope and content

Letters on literary, political, cultural, personal, and family matters. Includes substantial discussion especially of the publication of Lowell's poems in Briggs's journal, but also of the slavery question and other political issues of the day. Also discussed are recently published poems and novels, recent paintings, the activities of portrait painter William Page (a friend of Briggs and Lowell), and the character of Edgar Allan Poe, who contributed to the Broadway Journal.

Dates: 1843-1860.

May Anti-Slavery manuscript collection

 Collection
Identifier: 4601
Abstract

Consists mainly of correspondence among American abolitionists, including many letters to Samuel Joseph May. Also included correspondence among members of May's family and the family of James Miller McKim; and some correspondence with Daniel Willard Fiske and George William Harris concerning the building of the May Anti-Slavery Collection at Cornell University.

Dates: 1749 - 1933; Majority of material found within 1840 - 1880

Theodore Dreiser collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4604
Abstract

Consists mainly of letters by, to, or about Theodore Dreiser, as well as printed material, photographs, interviews and speeches of Dreiser and research notes of Dreiser scholar Robert Elias.

Dates: 1897 - 1983