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1880 ca.
Powelson (fl. 1880)
[Carte de visite of Anna Douglass]
Three quarter length seated carte de visite portrait of Anna Douglass. Douglass appears to be holding a parasol.
GLC07752.03
15 January 1882
Adams, Anne Brown (1843-1926)
to Alexander M. Ross
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
1899/08/21
Butterfield, Julia L. (fl. 1899)
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: expressing appreciation of Ward's sculpture on behalf of her husband, Gen. Butterfield.
GLC06343.260
1899/08/23
To: J.Q.A. Ward. Re: expressing appreciation of Ward's "very kind and assuring letter" on behalf of her husband, Gen. Butterfield.
GLC06343.261
1 March 1860
Hazlett, Albert (1837-1860)
to Anne Brown Adams
One letter from Albert Hazlett to Anne Brown Adams dated March 1, 1860. Thanking her for her letter to him in "his prison home." Discussing his fate and death and visits from the "ladies" and "gentlemen."
GLC03007.56.01
20 January 1878
Hemans, Nancy A. (b. 1843)
to Frances B. Shiras
Discusses her husband's declining health and how she recovered her own health, which became bad after her daughter Mary died, while camping. Notes visiting the sick via horseback. Comments on the local school, Christmas, and a visit by whites to...
GLC02429.41
15 January 1880
to Alexander Shiras
Explains that her health and taking care of her new baby has prevented her from writing sooner. Discusses how the baby keeps her up at night and how she and her other son were both sick recently. Compares her son's two schools, preferring the one far...
GLC02429.47
27 November 1881
Explains that she did not intend to alienate her friends in the east by re-marrying and justifies the re-marriage. Discusses the children, her two and her sister's three, who also live with them, the four oldest of which are in school. Thanks an...
GLC02429.51
1898 ca.
Scribners Magazine
Roosevelt and several men with backs to camera and heads bowed .
Two women and two young girls at right of photograph. Caption "Roosevelt, Theodore" in red ink on front .
GLC07002.62
1 July 1888
Discusses at length her faith in God, and how despair only makes it stronger, as her father taught her. Mentions smallpox incidents nearby and greater women's rights in California. Her oldest son, fifteen, has run off to become a locomotive...
GLC03007.20
5 June 1878
Discusses all she has had to do since her husband's death and reveals that she is pregnant since three months before his death. Comments on her hope to be a good mother but willingness to die, if it is God's will. Discusses money problems with the...
GLC02429.44
31 January 1897
Thompson, Ruth Brown (1829-1904)
Praises Ross, thanks him for his friendship, and wishes they could see each other. Talks of beautiful California weather and geography. Worries that her husband, Henry Thompson, may not have long to live.
GLC03007.46
27 August 1884
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
to Amy Post
Douglass writes to Post, a New York abolitionist and suffragist. Had been to Post's home in Rochester, and regretted her absence. Relates that he and Helen, his wife (they married in January 1884) had for their honeymoon traveled through Chicago...
GLC05819
1882/08/20
to Sarah Pillsbury re: death of his wife Anna Douglass
Douglass writes "Thanks for your kind letter. Mrs Douglass was all you say of her and more. She was the post in the centre of my house. Different we were in many things. She was conservative and I radical, she was for the old I for the new, She did...
GLC07752.01
24 September 1895
Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)
[Not one throb of anguish...]
A quote from chapter 12 of Uncle Tom's Cabin: "Not one throb of anguish/ Not one tear of the opposed/ is forgiven by the Man of Sorrows/ the Lord of Glory/ In his patient generous bosom/ He bears the anguish of a world."
GLC05508.238
no date
to Alexander M. Ross [Fragment]
Discusses events at Kennedy Farm while preparing to raid Harpers Ferry. Anne Brown was there to help cook and clean. Author and recipient inferred from content. Only the last four pages remain.
GLC03007.49
11 March 1879
to Alexander Milton Ross
One letter from Ruth Brown Thompson to Alexander Milton Ross dated March 11, 1879. Thanks him for his book "Reflections and Experiences of an Abolitionist" and praises him for living a life of self-sacrifice.
GLC03007.56.15
Another view of Roosevelt petting eagle, while Rough Rider tames lion cub.
A group looks on, including two women at far right, one holding a child. Stamp on verso. Mount is torn on the lower right corner, but the image is fine condition.
GLC07002.59
14 May 1881
Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)
to Sallie E. Bickford
Whittier declines Bickford's invitation to a Union meeting because he has a Quaker meeting the day before in Amesbury.
GLC05092.02
1883
The Ladies Association of the First Presbyterian Church
The Texas cook book.... [first Texas cookbook]
Edited by the Lady's Association of the First Presbyterian Church. Standard fare plus some ethnic dishes. With 60 interleaved manuscript recipes.
GLC02936
4 June 1880
Thanks Shiras and others for money sent (possibly for Daniel Hemans's grave stone). Thinks the Santee had enough money for a grave stone. Discusses her baby boy, Daniel, and his humorous actions. Comments on her other son's riding activities and his...
GLC02429.48
9 March 1881
Foster, Abigail K. (fl. 1881)
to Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson
Abolitionist and suffragist Foster responds to questions from Robinson who was doing research for her book, "Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement. A general, political, legal and legislative history from 1774 to 1881" (Boston, 1881). Foster...
GLC02076
6 March 1890
Rain has been so heavy all winter that she and her family have been virtually unable to leave the house.
GLC03007.25
15 April 1899
Fontaine, Lamar (1829-1921)
to Mary C. Day
A graceful acknowledgement of Day's letter of thanks for receiving "All Quiet on the Potomac." He writes in part: "It is a gratification to an old crippled Reb to receive such as womanly letter as yours." He closes by wishing her a long and...
GLC06640.03
16 April 1878
Parker, Ely S. (1828-1895)
to Isaac Shanks re: asking a Tonawanda chief to help his sister manage his farm
Written on stationery of the NYC Police Department. Parker was a chief in the Seneca Indian tribe.
GLC03829
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