Civil rights Religious aspects Catholic Church ; Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart; National Federation of Catholic College Students (U.S.); Social action; Social Action Secretariat
Card with phrases, "Youth is not made for pleasure, but for heroism" and "I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my God but He eluded me, I sought by BROTHER, and I found all three."
Three-page letter dated April 26, 1846, from Geo. [George] Bradburn in Nantucket [Massachusetts] to Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] discussing his romantic prospects with Elizabeth Sargeant.
Envelope and eight-page manuscript copy of a letter from Gerrit Smith Peterboro [New York] to John Cochrane dated July 20, 1860, discussing Smith's libel suit against Royal Phelps and others.
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...