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Description--Front: Caption on original reads: "SHRINE OF OUR LADY OF MARTYRS, AURIESVILLE, NEW YORK. ARRIVAL BY TRAIN AND BARGE ON THE ERIE CANAL." Black and white oval image surrounded by blank space around edges of card with title on left...
Four-page letter dated December 1 [no year given] from Frances H. Bradburn in Cleveland [Ohio] to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts], addressing his dislike for her and asking that he "feel some better regard for [George Bradburn's] other."
Charles Sumner (1811-1874) was a United States senator from Massachusetts and a campaigner against slavery. This is a draft, ca. 1855, of a version of the speech delivered in New York on May 9, 1855, and published that year under the title "The...