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1885/12/24
Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
to Yale Law school.
Offers to fund a black student's education to Yale Law School: "we have ground the manhood out of them & the shame is ours, not theirs."
GLC07971
22 August 1879
Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
[Douglass quotation on each citizen's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness]
One note from Frederick Douglass dated August 22, 1879. Writes that the government owes every citizen equal opportunity to live and when it does not provide this service should be overthrown.
GLC01116
4 December 1888
to Robert Adams
He is disturbed over the "clamour raised for the disfranchisement of the colored voters of the South." Written on letterhead from Cedar Hill, Douglass's Washington, D.C. home.
GLC04997
1891/07/31
Wood, Robert (fl. 1891)
An Appeal to the colored voters of Hart County [with Clabe Garvin]
Issued by 2 black men (Wood and Clabe Garvin) from Bowling Green, Ky., who claimed to be falsely imprisoned because they refused to vote for a klansman. Unevenly inked.
GLC07018
8 September 1883
Stauffer, David M. (1845-1913)
Receipt from S.H. Zahm & Co.
One receipt from S.H. Zahm & Co., to D.M. Stauffer dated Lancaster, Pa., Sept. 8, 1883. Item being charged cannot be identified because handwriting is illegible.
GLC07713.02.04
no date
Robin, Augustus
[Engraving of Frederick Douglass]
Accompanied an unrelated autograph note signed by Douglass (see GLC08948.01). Robin was an artist and engraver who worked in New York.
GLC08948.02
1 June 1882
Guiteau, Charles (1841-1882)
My Case [poem]
Faded ink. "For Saturday's Star." A poem justifying his assassination of President Garfield. "I executed / the Divine command. And Garfield did remove / to save my party / and my country / from the bitter fate of war...." The fifth page has had...
GLC06319
1940's ca.
Untitled
One blank postcard dated circa 1940's based on a 1880's portrait of Frederick Douglass. Printed on the rear of the postcard is the text, "Frederick Douglass1818-1895 Born a slaveon the eastern shore of Maryland, but ran away to become a great anti...
GLC07926.02
10 May 1882
Anthony, Susan B., 1820-1906;
to Annie Nowlan Savery
One letter addressed to Annie Nowlan Savery from Susan B. Anthony dated New York, May 10, 1882. Requests that she notify her when she has arrived home. Asks that she report to Rachel G. Foster who will be traveling with May Wright Sewall from North...
GLC09755
1897/03/22
Bryan, William Jennings (1860-1925)
to Mr. Warner re: contribution to Bimetallic Union
Written on personal stationery. Concerns splitting royalties to benefit the Union.
GLC02504.04
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