July 11, 1906
Dear Mr. Markham:
Besides our interest in “The Poetry of Jesus”, I now hear that you are doing some very remarkable work for the Cosmopolitan of which a book ought to be made. Won’t you surely let us have a chance at it?
Very...
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] giving notice of invoice for a shipment of goods delivered by Captain James Phillips.
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean, merchants in Newport, Rhode Island, regarding the sale of cargo from the Sloop Louisa, followed by itemized receipt for the "sales of Sixty Seven African...
One-page letter plus note and envelope from Wendell Phillips to Lysander Spooner, undated, in which Phillips declines Spooner's request for assistance.
Rhode Island--Commerce; South Carolina--Commerce; Slave trade--South Carolina--Charleston
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] regarding the Charleston slave market and payments to Mess. Tisdale & Dean, Captain Burdick, and Captain John Brown. On back, list of...
Rhode Island--Commerce; South Carolina--Commerce; Sierra Leone--Commerce
Letter from Phillips & Gardner of Charleston [South Carolina] to Mess. Gardner & Dean [of Newport, Rhode Island] relaying information about the Ship Mary in Islands D'Loss [Isle De Los, Sierra Leone].
Disbursement record for the Sloop Louisa listing purchases of food provisions, costs associated with selling slaves, and wages for ship crewmembers Peter Lewis, William Tayer, Richard Everith and William Weeden. Signed by Phillips & Gardner for...
Abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston; Abolitionists--Maine--Bangor; Antislavery movements--United States
Four-page letter dated September 8, 1845, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Bangor [Maine] to Lysander Spooner of Boston, Massachusetts, describing several newspaper and circular reviews of Spooner's book [The Unconstitutionality of Slavery],...
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a seven-page letter dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his...
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a four-page letter dated March 23, 1854, from Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, Francis Jackson, and Richard Hildreth to Charles D. Cleveland, responding to Cleveland's defense of his motives in...
Manuscript copy in Lysander Spooner's hand of a four-page letter dated February 11, 1854, from Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson to Charles D. Cleveland, responding to a letter that Cleveland had sent to the Commonwealth to be...
Seven-page letter and envelope dated February 18, 1854, from Charles D. Cleveland to Lysander Spooner, Wendell Phillips, and Francis Jackson, explaining his interest in Captain Daniel Drayton, and expressing his dismay at the negative tone of their...
