Dec 9 1903
Mrs. Catherine Markham
West New Brighton N.Y.
Dear Mrs. Markham:
Your valued favor was received during my absence from the city. Each word has been noted with interest and appreciation. I certainly must confess to having misinterpreted...
UPTON SINCLAIR
PASADENA
CALIFORNIA
Dear Friend :
I wish to inform the readers of "Upton Sinclair's" concerning "Jimmie Higgins".
Last spring it appeared that the war was going to last a long time, 'and that "Jimmie Higgins" would have to stand...
Buildings; Cities & towns; Fences; Industrial facilities; Towpaths; Utility poles; Steeples; Color postcards; Railroads; Panoramic views; Canals; Trees
A view of the Seneca Canal in Seneca Falls with buildings and steeples in the background and a towpath and railroad tracks along the edge of the canal; Written message at bottom of card (My Dear Beatrice you must of thought I had forgotten you but...
Erie Canal; New York (State); New York; Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848; Packet boats; Travel and description.
Page 158 found in Chapter twelve in Volume one of Marryat's A Diary in America. It is here that Marryat meets and converses with a fellow canal traveler.
Five-page letter dated August 20, 1866, from A. P. Aldrich in Barnwell, South Carolina, to Lysander Spooner [of Boston, Massachusetts] regarding the economic hardships faced by the South during the reconstruction era.
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Four-page letter and envelope dated February 16, 1897, from Daniel McFarland in South Bend [Indiana] to Lysander Spooner in Boston, Massachusetts, responding to several pamphlets of Spooner's on American banking.
Seven-page manuscript draft of a letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated June 8, 1860, discussing a libel suit against several publishers.
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...