Spiers writes to Markham to schedule a meeting and to suggest speakers and topics for an upcoming Round Table. Spiers also mentions Swedenborg and a number of other Christian Socialist writings.
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...
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated March 18, 1871, praising Spooner's "treatise on money" and discussing the topic of monetary systems.
Two-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated March 8, 1871, discussing the topic of monetary systems.
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Manuscript copy of a four-page letter from Lysander Spooner in Boston [Massachusetts] to John A. Thomson dated March 5, 1871, discussing the topic of monetary systems and asking if Thomson had received works that Spooner had sent the previous year.
Currency question--United States; Free banking--United States
Four-page letter from Jno. [John] A. Thomson in Summit Point, West Virginia, to Lysander Spooner dated December 17, 1877, discussing the topic of monetary systems.
Slaves--United States; Slavery--United States; Slavery--Moral and ethical aspects--United States; Slavery--England--Kent
Nine-page memorandum regarding the abolition of slavery, including a copy of a letter addressed to Rev. Mr. Hill of East Malling [Kent]. Mentions several contemporary writers on the topic of slavery.