Sinclair continues to try to persuade Markham to join the Helicon Hall Colony. Sinclair encloses a prospectus for the Colony detailing current and future building plans.
Actress Gloria Swanson lends support to raising $340,000 for the Society's campaign, of which the Bronx goal is $10,000. The Society helps all aged, handicapped, helpless and lost at the local railroads, bus terminals and piers.
Fund raising; International organizations; Communists;
Paul sends Mus several books from the Socorro Rojo Internacional (SRI, or Red Aid International) and hopes she can fill one out and pass the others along.
Four-page letter dated November 8, 1847, from L. [Lysander] Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to George Bradburn in Cleveland, Ohio, discussing abolitionist activities and news, and raising funds to support himself while writing a third chapter of...
Antislavery movements--United States; American Abolition Society; Slavery--Law and Legislation
Eight-page letter and envelope from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to Gerrit Smith dated September 10, 1857, in which he encourages Smith to put forward a motion at the American Abolition Society annual meeting in Syracuse to purchase...
New-York African Free-School; American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race; Abolitionists--New York (State)--New York--Societies, etc.; African Americans--Education--New York...
New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, commonly known as the New-York Manumission Society, was established 1785 to publicly promote the abolition of slavery and manumission of slaves in New York State. The society, which was...
Annely, Edward; Copper ores; Mines and mineral resources
Autograph letter, signed, from Edward Annely, dated Philadelphia, August 22, 1754, to William Kempe, Esq. Annely requests Kempe’s help and advice in both collecting a debt and in raising funds from a sale of stock in a copper mine on Annely’s...
