calvino.doc (Microsoft Word file), report on Calvino's Invisible Cities, April 1999

hobbit.wpd (WordPerfect file), report on "The Hobbit and the Heroic Journey", May 1999

basho.doc (Microsoft Word file), report on "Matsuo Basho: The Narrow Road to the Deep North", March 1999

warnote.wpd (WordPerfect file), undated

wargoddess.doc (Microsoft Word file), report on War-Goddesses of the Táin Bó Cúailnge, undated

All files are WordPerfect files unless otherwise noted. All files relate to the class Expository Writing 20: "Approaching the Millennium", taken by all Harvard freshmen.

writers prof.doc, personal profile of Sarah Linker, February 1999

lecture.wpd (WordPad file), report by Joseph Koerner on Gordon Gray Lecture on the Craft of Scholarly Writing, April
14, 1999, Harvard University

lecture.doc, report on Gordon Gray Lecture on the Craft of Scholarly Writing, April
14, 1999, Harvard University

haraway.doc, essay on Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto", 1999

intro.wpd (WordPad file), introduction to Brennan's class portfolio, 1999

Happiness_in_Fahrenheit_451 (unknown file type), essay on Fahrenheit 451, 1999

illumination.doc, draft of story "Illumination", undated

Essay2.doc, essay by Matt Polisson on "The Knowledge of Good and Evil", March 1999

expose.doc, essay on chapters in Expose (1998), 1999?

e4com.doc, 'critical commentary' on story "Illumination", undated

e4bit.doc, partial draft of 'critical commentary' on story "Illumination", undated

e4prop.doc, proposal for essay of a short story ("Illumination"), April 1999

goldbarth.doc, essay on Goldbarth's essay "The Future" (1994), 1999?

e4-3.doc, draft of story "Illumination", April 1999?

e3prop.doc, essay proposal, April 1999

e4-2.doc, draft of story "Illumination", April 1999

e1prop.doc, essay proposal for class "Illuminating the Millennium", February 1999

dreaming.doc, essay on "Dreaming and Reality in The Word for World is Forest and The Handmaid’s Tale", March 1999

concl.wpd (WordPad file), essay on conclusion of "Illuminating the Millennium" course, undated

2-25.doc, journal entry for class, February 1999

3-2.doc, journal entry for class on "The Word for World is Forest", March 1999

4-6.doc, journal entry for class on Riddley Walker, April 1999

3-9.doc, essay on The Handmaid's Tale, March 1999

3-23.doc, essay on 1984, March 1999

contents.wpd (WordPad file), table of contents for portfolio, 1999

2-16.doc, essay on Fahrenheit 451, February 1999

bradbury1.doc, essay on "The Oral Tradition in Fahrenheit 451", February 1999

turkey.doc, story based on "The Girl Who Took Care of the Turkeys" [taken from Peynetsa, Andrew. “The Beginning: Part One" from Finding the Center. Trans. Dennis Tedlock. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1972], May 1999

ghost.doc, story "The Ghost’s Resentment (Dakota)" [taken from “The Ghost’s Resentment", from Myths and Legends of the Great Plains. Ed. Katharine B. Judson. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1913], May 1999

man.doc, essay on "The Multiple Races of Man", May 1999

mythfinal.doc, list of contents for take-home final for Folklore and Mythology 125: Mythology of the Americas, May 1999

Includes one Microsoft Excel file:

schedule.wks.xls, class schedule, Spring 1999?

This folder consists of course materials and assignments from Brennan's undergraduate career at Harvard University.

This collection pertains to Ernesto Mejia-Sanchez, who was a major Nicaraguan diplomat, poet, scholar, and critic whose papers are primarily in Spanish. Materials include photographs, correspondence, writings, publications, newspapers, course writings, and research materials from archives and libraries around the world.

These two volumes documents feature the personal and political reminiscences of journalist William S. Robinson and were edited and published by his wife in 1877. In the first edition, the first volume was expanded to two with extra illustrations (142 portraits and 53 autograph letters from prominent Americans of the time). Writing as “Warrington,” the journalist was especially noted for his reform positions and radical anti-slavery voice. The portraits and views represent a wide range of 19th-century American historic events, sites, and public figures.

This collection was intentionally developed, pulling together political documentation and radical writings of people of African descent from around the country.

The collection contains a letter written by J. B. Rayner announcing a forthcoming visit to Edna, Texas, dated October 19, 1900 (envelope included), and a handbill announcing Rayner's talk on October 27, 1900.

This collection contains over 100 items, primarily books that are cataloged and available via the Libcat system. The manuscript and drawings are also cataloged and available via the Libcat system.

This collection consists of an illustrated mailer postmarked New Orleans, and hand-addressed to Toledo OH, containing 18 accordion-folded 6in x 4in color photos purporting to show (stereotypical happy variety) black life in the south, with two songs, "Dixie Land" and "Dixieland for M" printed on the inside of the mailer with a cypress tree on one side of the fold and a photo of a black man and woman next to the address label.

These were reproduced from hand-tinted black and white originals. Postcard-size images, but double-sided without space for messages.

This collection includes over 11 different groupings of approximately 1 to 10 issues in each grouping. The latter half of the collection includes illustrations of African and African Americans in European periodicals.

These comics were created in countries that were ruled by colonial powers in Africa, namely Italy, France, Belgium, and Spain. The comics are both individual copies and bound volumes with numerous copies. They date from around 1926 to 1973.

This collection encompasses a number of resources obtained with the support of A&M's Africana Studies Program.

Box 1, Teaching Aids, consists of chromo card albums that were published in continental Europe by various companies to garner support for the continuation of the control over colonies across Africa and Asia. Also, many of these albums intend to educate on the natural resources of the colonies and their indigenous inhabitants.

Box 2, Cards and Chromo Albums, consists of cards produced by various European companies that depict the African lifestyle and diaspora. Some cards also depict many stereotypes widely held by mainland European society. Also included are albums that may have been intended to educate the collector on topics such as the fauna of Africa, and the practice of hunting.

Box 3, Oversize Items, consists of more Chromo trade albums, teaching aids, ballots, and posters.

This collection was developed for Africana Studies scholars interested in research on the continent of Africa. The materials consist of African publications between circa 1959-1965 from countries that include Zambia and parts of East Africa.

This collection consists of a photo scrapbook with six small charcoal images that depict African-American life in the rural south with an unrelated pictorial on-lay on the upper cover, all tied together with string.

Original black students' association charter. Authored by Ken Lewallen and Antwine Jefferson in Fall 1967-68.

ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed

• Benjamin Bacon. Bacon was an original member of the Anti-Slavery society.

  ALS to autograph seeker C.L. Farrington (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). October 2, 1873. 1 p.

• Henry Ward Beecher. Beecher was a social reformer, clergyman, and the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe.

  Partial ALS, n.p., Undated. 1 p. "It is his way. It does us all good to have someone who piles on the screws - especially when we know at bottom he is most friendly."

• William Birney. Birney was Union Army general during the Civil War, and was noted for encouraging thousands of free black men to enlist.

  ALS to Lewis Cist (Paris). March 8, 1852. 1 p.

• Phillips Brooks. Brooks was an Episcopal clergyman and the author of O Little Town of Bethlehem.

  ALS to Mrs. Waters (Boston, Massachusetts). February 3, 1886. 1 p.

• Blanche K. Bruce. Bruce, the child of plantation owner and his house slave, was the first African-American to serve a full term in the U.S. Senate, representing Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.

  ALS to Harry Hause (Washington, D.C. ), thanking his "host" after a recent visit. November 16, 1886. 2 p.

• Benjamin Butler. Butler was a Massachusetts politician and Union General.

  ALS to David R. Godwin (Washington, D.C. ). June 12, 1876. 1 p.

• William Channing

  ALS to Mrs. Chapman (Boston, Massachusetts), apologizing for sending a manuscript he suggests is unworthy of Liberty Bell, the journal of the American Antislavery Society. October 23, 1845. 1 p.

• David Lee Child. Child was the husband of writer and reformer Lydia Maria Child.

  ALS to J. Bailey, arranging a meeting. n.p., July 17, 1829. 1 p.

• Thomas Clarkson. Clarkson was one of the most important British abolitionists of the late 18th century.

  ALS to John B. Murray who served as Brigadier General in the Union Army, and later helped establish Memorial Day. (Playford Hall, England), arranging a visit. April 15, 1842. 2 p.

• Cassius Marcellus Clay

  AQS, "Life, Liberty, and Love". n.p., 1860. 1 p.

• George H. Cook. Cook was a professor of chemistry at Rutgers University whose geological survey of New Jersey became the predecessor for the U.S. Geological Survey.

  ALS regarding the purchase of a telescope (New Brunswick, New Jersey). August 27, 1863. 2 p.

  ALS (New Brunswick, New Jersey), regarding teaching science to future clergymen. May 3, 1865. 2 p. "I am every day stirred up by their fears lest they should learn something which would render their faith weak or unsound. It is a hard lesson for men to learn that one belongs to the finite the other the infinite…."

• Daniel De Vinne

  ALS (Rye, New York). April 8, 1850. 2 p.

• Orville Dewey

  ALS to Elizabeth Arnold (Paris). April 26, 1842. 2 p.

• G. M. Emerson

  ALS to Joseph Kidder (Boston, Massachusetts). June 27, 1863. 1 p.

• David Francis

  ALS to Governor Samuel T. Armstrong (Boston, Massachusetts). March 4, 1835. 2 p.

• William Lloyd Garrison

  Copy of Wendell Phillips letter in Garrison's hand, August 1852. 1 p.

  ALS, responding to an invitation to speak at the New England Woman Suffrage Association. May 10, 1859. 2 p. "Where my hear and heart are in this matter you need no assurance from me, but I dare not, now, give you a positive pledge."

  AQS, "Liberty for each, for all, and for ever!". January 1, 1872.

  Post-mortem examination of Garrison, containing the results of the autopsy and account of the disease leading to his death. 3 p.

• Joshua R. Giddings

  ALS to anti-slavery politician Charles Sumner, regarding New England delegates to the Peace Convention in Paris. June 8, 1849. 1 p. "Our Free Soil movement is on the advance in this state. Our forces are consolidating, and we are making preparations for the election in October…"

  AQS, n.p., regarding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Undated. "When the Representative of a State is struck down the people feel the blow."

  With one additional ALS.

• Francis Gillette

  Letter sent from Gillette to an unknown woman, seeking her services as a school teacher for a recently built school in Bloomfield, Connecticut. July 25, 1851.

• Sarah and Angelina Grimke, and Theodore Dwight Weld

  Three Autographs on one page, n.p., Undated (circa the 1870s). RARE

• R. R. Gurley. Gurley was a Clergyman and the U.S. Commissioner to Liberia.

  ALS (Washington, D.C.). August 24, 1832. 1 p.

• R. G. Hazard

  ALS to William Pitt Fessenden, July 28, 1864. 2 p.

• Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  ALS, regarding hymns. July 23, 1908. 2 p.

• Samuel Gridley Howe

  ALS (Boston, Massachusetts) June 7, circa the 1870s. 1 p.

  Invitation from the Perkins Institution for the Blind, announcing a meeting of the Trustees. Embossed to be read like Braille. Obituary from the Providence Journal included.

  With three additional ALS.

• William Jackson

• William Jay

  ALS, thanking an anonymous man for a ticket and discussing introduction for a speaker (Sumner). November 23, 1854. 1 p.

  ALS, discussing lot rentals. (New York). December 19, 1835. 1 p.

• Oliver Johnson

  Autograph Poem Signed, "The Peace of God", n.p., Undated. 2 p.

  AQS, "God is wrath, even as he is love". (New York). January 8, 1886. 1 p.

  ALS to Rev. William Hayes Ward (Orange, New Jersey) pleading for work. February 2, 1879. 4 p. "I tell you frankly that I am in a dire strait. I have struggled hard for almost three years to get my paper on a paying basis…I look now into the faces of my dear wife and child with anxiety much as I never before experienced…".

  ALS to Thomas Wentworth Higginson (New York), regarding abolitionist Moncure Conway. October 6, 1885. 3 p. "I very much regret my inability to join in person the good company of friends and admirers of Mr. Moncure D. Conway, over which you are called to preside on Friday evening next. I greatly honor him for his high position in the world of thought and am moreover deeply indebted to him for light and inspiration upon many important subjects. In point of fidelity to his convictions and the boldness with which he has uttered them, he has set an example worthy of general imitation. I am glad he has returned to his native land, and I desire to lend my voice to the chorus of welcome that will greet him on the occasion to which I have referred. May his light still increase in brightness, and his hand grow strong for the work before him."

  AQS, "Thanks be to God! Not a slave in all the Land!" (Clifton Springs). September 15, 1889. 1 p.

  ALS to an anonymous Charles, discussing a speech that was sent but was incomplete. 1 p.

  ALS, of payment sent for an article, (New York). December 31, 1866. 1 p.

• Jean Kina. Kina was a Haitian revolutionary leader and former slave.

  Note Signed, warrant for rations. September 12, 1795. Exceptionally rare autograph.
  Winslow Lewis.

  ALS, request for letter to see someone in London. Envelope addressed to Winslow Lewis. March 1872. 1 p.

  Invitation and ALS, expressing his father's inability to accept an invitation due to being absent from the city. May 7, 1872. 1 p.

• J. L. Lovejoy

  ALS, Cincinnati, Ohio, October 28, 1839. 1 p.

• Zachary Macaulay

  ALS, regarding the disposition of an estate. Macaulay was the leader of a Parliamentary effort to end slavery in Britain. October 10, 1823. 4 p.

• Samuel May

  ALS to H.W. Clarke, regarding Civil War relief efforts. (Syracuse, New York). March 10, 1863. 2 p.

  Copy of a letter from Samuel May, (Syracuse, New York). January 8, 1866. 1 p.

• James M. McKim

  ALS. 2 p.

• Edward Joy Morris

  Note signed, regarding a Whig gathering Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1844. 1 p.
  ALS, giving dates of his service in Congress (Washington, D.C.). February 8, 1858. 1 p.

  Letter signed (possibly clerically), thanking an unidentified woman for a likeness of her husband, who gave Morris advice during his time in Liberia. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). August 9, 1863. 1 p.

  Letter signed (possibly clerically), mentioning favorable news regarding diplomatic appointments to Liberia. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). May 22, 1866. 1 p.

• Theodore Parker

  ALS to Miss H.E. Horn regarding Goethe (West Roxbury, Massachusetts). October 15, 1846. 3 p.

  Two additional ALS, three ANS, and one cabinet card.

• William W. Patton

  ALS, answering his sister, who was evidently skeptical of the anti-slavery movement's methods (New York). September 16, 1839. 4 p.
  Transcript: "Dear Sister,
  Dr. Bates a few moments ago handed me your letter & I hasten to reply. And this I do the more readily because I feel confident that a satisfactory answer can be given to your questions. You wish to know, what good all this agitating will do?
  I could first ask what good cause or what great moral reform action ever succeeded without agitation. How did our Savior & the apostles endeavor to propagate the gospel? Was it not by traveling extensively over the known world & promulgating the truth? Was it not by rebuking sin everywhere & under all forms - proclaiming the utter wickedness of the human heart - denouncing idolatry as folly & wickedness & holding up the cross as the only hope of a lost world? They spoke the truth also sternly & made no compromise with wrong. In rebuking the Jews for their treatment of the Savior they said, whom 'ye have take by wicked hands have crucified and slain' 'But ye denied the Holy One & the Just & desired a murder to be granted unto you.' And while the church followed their example, almost miraculous success attended their efforts.
  Again when Papacy threw her mantle of gloom over the church - when a deathlike stupor had seized the disciples of the cross, what aroused them, save the trumpet tones of Luther & his associates, spurning with indignation the idea of Papal supremacy & infallibility. They awoke the plebian & the senator - the peasant & the king - how? By agitation. And the happy results we feel every day.
  Alcohol had slain its thousands - the drunkards hell was fast filling up. We were branded abroad as a nation of drunkards. How is it that such a change as we now see has been wrought? Why is it that one state after another is prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor & we stand far in advance of the rest of the world on this subject? It has been accomplished by agitation.
  Nearly one millions of slaves groaned beneath West Indian bondage & the slave traders covered the ocean, sailing under the flags of all civilized nations yet not a voice uttered warning or rebuke; but now how different the sight. The freeman lifts his free arms to heaven & thanks his God & the abolitionists of England the lash is beneath his feet, & the chain rent asunder falls to the ground. And how was this brought to pass. By the agitation of such men as Wilberforce, Clarkson & Sharpe. Years did they agitate, & now God has brought about the result.
  And now, shall we follow the path which Experience points out, or (monstrous anomaly) leave sin to cure itself.
  But permit me to mention of our plans & opinions. First, we believe the slaveholder has a conscience, aye a conscience, slumbering though it may be. This conscience we would address. We would show him that though he may not distinctly be aware of it, yet in reality he is robbing his fellow man - treading under foot precious rights & [curtailing love on many such]. Do you say, that he will not hear & is only enraged; so does the rum seller stop his ears or assail you in his rage when you tell him, he is filling up the drunkards grave, & feeding the fires of the drunkards hell. But in his cooler moments, his conscience will whisper, it is all true. Is it right so to speak to the rum seller & to hope for beneficial results, then is it right thus to address the slaveholder & equally to anticipate the time when Slavery's expiring groan shall scare be heard for the songs of the emancipated.
  Secondly. We believe, if we can convince the slaveholders that free labor is far more profitable to the South than is slave labor, that their self interest will liberate the slaves. To establish this position we have a mass of overwhelming arguments & facts.
  Thirdly. We believe that the South has a sense & a deep sense of honor. What then will she do, when a worlds scorn shall scathe her. When to be a slaveholder shall be as counted a foul spot on a mans character. Lynching & bowie knives will ill contend against the brand of shame. Was not Robinson acquitted of the murder of Helen Jewett & yet he dared not, he could not reside in this city. Why? Because every body believed him quietly & infamy had marked him as her own.
  Fourthly. We believe that the South wishes to live securely. Therefore we point her to a nation of enemies growing up in her midst. We mention her hopeless condition in case of a war & thus wish to show that it is always unsafe to do wrong.
  'Why then do you labor at the North?' Because in several of the so called free states slaves are yet held. Because a burning, withering prejudice is bowing the colored man to the earth, blighting his hopes for time & often for eternity. Because the free colored man is shut out of our schools & our colleges & put in a place of degradation in the courts of God! Because no mechanic will take him for an apprentice & no merchant receives him as a clerk. Because if the colored man was elevated & it was seen that he could hold stations of honor & respectability such a grief of universal condemnation would go forth against slavery as will cause it to vanish from the earth. Because several of the nominally free states permit slaveholders from the South to hold slaves within their bounds for 6 or 9 months, & others lay heavy fines & imprisonment upon those who aid the panting fugitive. Because the North has the majority in Congress & hence the power & obligation to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, in Florida, also to break up the slave trade between the states, which is the main thing that renders slavery profitable in Delaware, Maryland & Virginia, which being removed these states would be forced to emancipate their slaves. Because the Northern church has palliated this crime & failed to rebuke it, while at the same time it has influence sufficient to cause its members at the South to renounce slavery. (See my last letter about communing with slaveholders) Because in a word, slaveholders as a general thing will never listen to us, as long as so many uphold them at the North.
  But says, the objector, 'I have seen a great deal of quarreling & disturbance arise from so much agitation.' Well, what then. This is not denied, but what does it prove? That it is wrong to continue because incidental disturbances arise? Why then did not Paul stop when he was mobbed wherever he went? Why did Peter & John continue so fanatical, when they were scourged for Christs sake? Did not Christ tell us to expect trouble whenever truth grappled with error. Math. X:34,6. Could we expect a system which is so bored by the civil passions of the heart to be given up without a severe & protracted struggle?
  Such is my answer, given as briefly as possible, to your questions. Had I time, I might sustain my position by many more arguments. But I have tried to be brief. If my answer is not satisfactory to Miss Bonny & others, please as soon as possible specify wherein I have failed. I have not undertaken to show how bad slavery is, inasmuch as I took it for granted that she allowed its wickedness. Therefore my attention has been confined to a general statement of our plan & the reasons for it. May God teach us all right that we may do what is well pleasing to him. For it matters little whether we have mans condemnation or not, so long as the smile your Savior is on us. Mother sends her love. I have had a cold for 4 weeks. The Dr. forbids to sing or speak much. The Plans look quite well & has one pedal to another alongside of it. Last Wednesday I went on to Uncle Mag office & on Saturday brough[t] Ludlow, & Aunt Catharine home. Had a very pleasant time there & got most well of my cold, but was put almost entirely [back by singing & talking yesterday (Sabbath).] Write soon."

  AQS, "He that doeth good is of God; but he that doeth evil hath not seen God" (Chicago, Illinois). February 14, 1877. 1 p.

  With one additional ALS.

• Wendell Phillips

  AQS, "Count that day lost / Whose low descended sun / Sees at the thy hand / No worthy action done / These lines John Brown taught to each his children." September 1871. 1 p.

  Four additional AQS, two ANS, two ALS, and a Cabinet card.

• Parker Pillsbury

  ALS (Concord, New Hampshire). September 8, 1896. 2 p. "I joined Mr. Garrison in the tenth year of his warfare, and I hope and think he would say I never deserted him in any of his finest battles on whatever field. And I hope ere long to meet him under other and brighter skies, to renew our conquests upward and onward…"

• A. M. Powell

  ANS, on Office of the National Anti-Slavery Standard stationary (New York). June 26, 1866. 1 p.

• F.B. Sanborn

  ANS (Boston, Massachusetts) January 11, 1910. 1 p.

• Gerrit Smith

  An 1864 Note Signed, three ALS (one mounted on an acidic page from the autograph album), and an 1848 printed speech on land reform. (5 items total)

• Henry B. Stanton

  ALS, sending a manuscript for publication. October 17, 1844.

  ALS, n.p., Undated. 1 p. "…why would it not be a good plan for some of our New York stump orators to 'change works' with some of yours? Some of your Conscience Whigs can do great good, very great good, in the central & western parts of this state. They would have great influence with the Whigs of this region. In return for them, let some of your Barnburners go there. Their noble enthusiasm would wear off prejudices which you Whigs have to contend, and they might make deep inroads upon Hunkerism in Massachusetts…"

• Thaddeus Stevens

  ALS, February 17, 1861. 1 p.

• Alvan Stewart

  ALS, from an early political abolitionist regarding his publication and the legal assault on slavery. June 16, 1845. "I did not receive your letter until Saturday night & I hasten to answer it. The Argument I delivered in eleven hours before the Sup. Court of N. Jersey I think eminently calculated for lawyers [?] & those wise men constructing society courts the muse who[?] and the exponents of the law & Constitution. It covers all the questions under the federal Constitution as well as N. Jersey, I have had lawyers men who were my political enemies order fifty of these. The Argument will be as I understand 45 to 50 compact pages, & are $125.00 at per thousands at the office. In fact it is altogether the most labored production of my life, & covers our entire question, under all aspects, as my adversaries compelled me by their attacks to give a history of & define the Liberty party - its objects, aims, the course of slavery in different ages, demonstrating the declaration of independence a practicality & showing condition of slave states, as compared with free, showing 6 millions ruined, 3 of Black & 3 of poor Southern whites…"

• P. F. Streeter

  ALS (Baltimore, Maryland). August 22, 1861. 4 p. "This city is quiet, but feelings are bitter, and the secessionists believe 'Old Jeff' [Jefferson Davis] will be here before long. I do not agree with them. Troops are beginning to arrive and encamp on our hills. A great hospital is to be established here. These things will create some activity. As to my own prospects, they are not very bright. I shall lose many secession pupils, and some will not be able to send; but I hope to have some new ones, and enough to justify me in going on."

• Charles Sumner

  Newspaper clipping discussing a dispute.

  Autograph Manuscript outline of studies in history. 3 p.

  Document Signed, regarding a railroad. February 5, 1845. 1 p.

  Autograph Quotation, "Whether on the gallows high, or in the battle's van, the fittest place for a man to die, is where he dies for man." n.p. Undated.

  Four additional ANS, and one photo with a clipped signature affixed.

• Lewis Tappan

  ALS, regarding a case before the Presbytery. February 26, 1841. 1 p.

• George Thompson

  ALS to Oliver Johnson, July 13, 1865, 2 p.
  Clipped signature and AQS "To America!" (Salem, Massachusetts). December 6, 1850. (tipped on the left side onto acidic paper)

• Francis Todd

  Letter from Todd to an attorney regarding a transaction of $1000 in Newbury Port. June 11, 1842.

• John Weiss. Unitarian minister

  ALS, to a younger unidentified colleague (New York). November 21, 1852. 4 p. "My Dear Friend,
  I have been trying very hard to think that I can come to Washington, for I should like to do it. But I am forced to decline it, for a variety of reasons which press upon me. Rev. Bowen will have left us, and no one will take his place at present: so that the entire responsibility of study will come upon me. If I preach at all away from home, it will be for Rev. Bowen's installation at Williamsburg. Then, the journey and preaching would use me up for a week: a thing not to be considered, if any one were here to take care of the [evening] Sunday. The besetting difficulties are too great even for my strong desire to come.
  I rejoice that you are going to be settled at Washington: and I have no doubt that you can say there just what you please. My advice to you would be to go on as you have begun, making your Anti-slavery occasionally, at timely moments, just as strong as you have made it previous to your call. The most that a man can desire is to have the liberty to speak a timely word at some conjuncture which enhances its meaning and prevents it from being spent upon the air. If a man waits for the chances which must inevitably occur in our legislation, and so long as the power of slavery seeks its opportunity, he will have the satisfaction of bearing his testimony at the most useful moment for his own conscience and for the cause of truth. All else, relating to any special topic, is comparatively aimless, lacking the time's enforcement - which justifies it from the charge of dilettantism and superfluity of independence by bringing the evil up to be hit, and marking every hit a palpable one. Particularly in Washington, where people hear of effects being produced by speaking strongly to the point at some critical moment, I should judge it to be the best cause for the preacher of anti-slavery truth to watch the providential chances, and concentrate this special moral energy of his upon the evil when it has a '[name].'
  Let me desire for you every success and spiritual blessing, and though distant from us may you yet feel the sympathy of all who believe as you do, who will be ready to countenance for you, and who will feel strengthened by your efforts."

  With one additional ALS.

• Elizur Wright

  ALS, regarding becoming an auxiliary to the National Liberal League. August 31, 1880. 2 p.

• Other letters

  Ones addressed to famous autograph collectors Lewis Cist and William Buell Sprague, are from Francis Gillette (Senator from Conn.); William Jackson; William Jay (2 letters); Winslow Lewis; J. C. Lovejoy; James Miller McKim (2 ALS); A.M. Powell; and Francis Todd.

The collection contains over 100 rare letters, autograph quotations, and photographs from 50 major figures in the American antislavery struggle, including several rare autographs from key British abolitionists. Many of the individuals noted provided selfless support, financially, morally, and wrote on behalf of the abolishment of the 'peculiar' institution of slavery. Some of the well-known abolitionists include Henry Ward Beecher, Blanche K. Bruce, William Channing, William Lloyd Garrison, Joshua R. Giddings, the Grimke sisters, Gerrit Smith, Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Lewis Tappan, one of the leading financial supporters of the Amistad Africans.

The collection contains photographs and newspaper clippings of these 50 prominent abolitionists.

This scrapbook contains progress photographs and news clippings of the construction of Kyle Field in 1929.

This collection contains photographs from an exhibit entitled "Juarez Without the Myth."

This collection contains three scrapbooks, one of which belonged to Irene Claghorn, filled with photographs and mementos dating from the early 1900s through the 1940s.

This collection includes correspondence between Williams and Wall, as well as photographs, original drawings, etchings (some showing cancelled plates), newspaper clippings, postcards, books, exhibition notices, and other Walliana. The letters concern Wall's printmaking and publishing activities and provide a unique glimpse into his personal and professional concerns.

The collection contains numerous self-portrait etchings of Wall and etchings of his friends, correspondents, and subjects of his writings. Wall's personal stationery contains a variety of etchings, drawings, and self-portraits. Much of this material has been captured in oversized scrapbooks that were reconditioned, re-boxed, and professionally conserved by Carrabba Conservation, Inc. Additional information on conservation treatment of the collection can be found in the Bernhardt Wall control folder.

1-1: Aggieland Orchestra Photographs, 1945-1960

1-2: Singing Cadets Photographs, 1954-1960

1-3: Singing Cadets Programs and Clippings, 1956-1960
1956 Roster and Program
Awards Banquet Program, April 9, 1960 (2 copies)
1957-1958 Banquet Program (2 copies)
1959-1960 Banquet Program
News article "Concert At S. Methodist A&M Singing Cadets In", February 13, 1957

1-4: Summer Entertainment Series Photographs, 1945-1953

1-5: Summer Entertainment Series Programs, 1947-1960
"The Mikado", July 10-11, 1956
"Hit the Deck"
"Oklahoma", July 12-13 1960
"Smoky Mountain", July 9-10, 1957
"Sweethearts", July 8-9, 1958
"Rio Rita", June 28-29, 1949
"The Mikado", July 14-15, 1947 (2 copies)
"H. M. S. Pinafore", Summer 1950 (3 copies)
"Trial By Jury", July 14-15, 1959
News articles "'Oklahoma!' In Brilliant Production At The Grove", Summer 1960
Newspaper photos, the cast of 'The Mikado' and T. D. Carroll (The Mikado Himself)

1-6: Summer Entertainment Series Clippings, 1953-1960
Costume Plot for the cast of "Pirates of Penzance", Summer of 1953
News article "'Mikado' Is Charming In Production At A&M Grove" and "Boone, Thurman In Lead Of Grove 'Mikado' Musical"

1-7: Aggieland Orchestra, Singing Cadets, and Band Rehearsing and Recording (1950-1951), and Photographs (1957)

1-8: Music Hall Clippings, 1964
News article "First Home of Consol Being Razed at A&M"
News article "Landmark at A&M, Old Music Hall, Razed"

1-9: Letters from former A&M Musicians
Letter from Richard C. Halter to "Bill"
Letter from P. E. Zimmerman to Turner
Picture of 'The Aggieland' from P. E. Zimmerman attached to a list of 'Membership of the respective Aggieland Orchestras during the period 1921-1925.
From S. E. Schaefer to W. M. Turner, March 15, 1972
From Dr. Roland C. Mallett to "Bill", with attached news articles
From S. E. Schaefer to Turner, March 8, 1972
From Jack R. Maguire to Turner, January 1, 1972
From Don G. Simpson to Turner, May 31, 1972

Also included in the box:
"Music from Aggieland" including Texas Aggie Band; Singing Cadets; Aggieland Orchestra; Yell Practice (2 copies)

The collection is an assortment of newspaper clippings, articles about cowboys and ranch living, copies of programs, pamphlets for symposiums and articles written by Kelton himself.

Eclecticon 2000 [Newark, NJ, 2000] - Small poster

Philadelphia-Area Slash Society [undated] - Flyer

The collection consists of written correspondence primarily in the form of postcards, handmade cards, or other support materials from individuals in Germany. Many of the postcards have colored flowers and colorful artwork, some are from mechanical postcards distributed to school children and individuals in Germany to write in support of Angela Davis. These cards and correspondence are in response to a solidarity campaign of support called "A Million Roses for Angela Davis" started in East Germany. Some of the postcards are addressed to Marin County Courthouse in California and others are addressed to the United National Committee to Free Angela Davis in New York.

This collection consists of "Durka Returns", a script for Episode 15, Season 1 of the joint Australian-American television series Farscape (1999-2003). The episode, originally released in 1999, is notable for introducing the character Chiana, played by Gigi Edgley. It was written by Rockne S. O'Bannon and Grant McAloon.

The script was originally the property of Edgley's, and has been heavily marked up with her acting notes and edits. It is inscribed to Jeremy Brett, to whom it was given in early 2023.

The charcoal images are as follows:
A barefoot African American family, mother, father, and eight children in period rural dress standing in front of a portion of a ramshackle cabin with a split wood shingle roof.
A longer view of the family, a bit scattered in front of a full view of the cabin.
Mother and daughter inside the cabin in front of a wall covered with newspaper.
Mother sitting outside the cabin, shown from the exterior chimney end.
Mother and son by a well in a wooded area.
Father and other male workers bailing cotton.

The Cherokee Freedmen Collection housed at Cushing Memorial Library and Archive is composed of written interviews of African Americans and Native Americans conducted by the United States Department of the Interior’s Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes. The Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes also became known as the Dawes Commission, after its chairman Senator Henry Dawes of Massachusetts. The interviews, testimonies, and affidavits relate to the applications of African Americans that were denied enrollment as Cherokee Freedmen during the Dawes Commission. The collection encompasses over 500 documents from 30 different applications affecting over 100 people. Most of the documents are filed with their original envelopes. The documents in the Cherokee Freedmen Collection are dated from 1900 to 1907. Most of the hearings were conducted at Fort Gibson or Muskogee, Oklahoma. There is a high degree of intertextuality between the files regarding people and places mentioned.

In addition to the interviews, there are also interdepartmental letters between various commissioners and the Secretary of the Interior, and notices to applicants and their lawyers. The collection offers a primary source on the arbitration involved in the decision of who did and did not count as Cherokee Freedmen, as well as frontier life in general both before and after the war. The language used vividly reveals the prevailing racial attitudes of the day, chiefly toward African Americans and Native Americans; casual use is made of pejorative terms, and open prejudice is occasionally voiced. All of the applications that are contained within the Cherokee Freedmen Collection housed at Cushing Library were rejected, denying the applicants citizenship to the Cherokee Nation.

In 1866, each of the Five Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles) that had sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War entered treaties with the United States to abolish slavery in the Native American Territory and established provisions that addressed the status and rights of the freed slaves and people of African descent that lived among the Five Tribes. Since the Cherokee Nation sided with the Confederacy during the Civil War, the United States’ punishment for the Cherokee Nation was to give “all the rights of a native Cherokee” to all freed slaves who still lived within the Cherokee Nation.

In 1877, the Dawes Act (also called the General Allotment Act) was passed under President Grover Cleveland, allowing the federal government to break up tribal land to try to force Native Americans to assimilate. The federal government took the 150 million acres of land that was already controlled by the tribes. The commission's mission was to divide tribal land into 160-acre plots which were then divided among the members of the tribe. As part of this process, the Commission either accepted or rejected applicants for tribal membership based on whether the tribal government had previously recognized the applicant as a member of the tribe and other legal requirements. Applicants were categorized as Citizens by Blood, Citizens by Marriage, Minor Citizens by Blood, New Born Citizens by Blood, Freedmen (African Americans formerly enslaved by tribal members), New Born Freedmen, and Minor Freedmen. Once the land was divided amongst the citizens of the Native American Nations, the United States government sold the surplus tribal lands to non-Native Americans for a profit.

Many of the testimonies include personal histories, sometimes dating as far back as the 1830s, and great detail is given on the moving of slaves to and from the Cherokee Nation during the Civil War. Notable pieces include accounts of runaway slaves returning to their separated families, individual reactions to Emancipation, and a letter directly to the Secretary of the Interior personally written by an applicant, requesting that her case be re-opened. The letter, polite and heartfelt but clearly frustrated, is spelled phonetically. Many of the applicants in the collection are related to one another. For example, Henry Albert is the son of Martha Albert, who was a freed slave of the Cherokee Nation. Henry Albert was over the age of 21, he had to apply to be enrolled as a Cherokee Freedmen for himself and his children. Since Henry was born free, most of the information contained within the file is based on his mother, Martha Albert’s testimony, and other witnesses who testified on her behalf or on behalf of the Cherokee Nation. The investigation on whether Martha Albert was truly a freed slave of the Cherokee Nation or not determined whether or not her children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews would also be eligible to be enrolled as Cherokee Freedmen. The files of Henry Albert, Barnes Family, and Lula Knalls all contain copies of Martha Albert’s testimonies. Another interesting letter that allowed for the subject listing to include "Leonid Meteor Showers" refers to one elderly woman's age which was determined by the fact that she was 16 "the year the stars fell". The commissioner noted that that was in 1832, and he was there himself. The following year, '33, was the year that the Leonid shower was officially "discovered” and caused something of a panic in the eastern US; no one knew what meteors were, yet!

Several of the locations mentioned were Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, Muskogee, Oklahoma, and Fort Smith, Arkansas. As well as Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the capitol of the Cherokee Nation, and Goingsnake District, now Adair County, Oklahoma, which was the location of the Goingsnake Massacre. Occasionally the communities cited in the interviews have since become ghost towns, been absorbed into larger cities, or changed names. Many of the testimonies also included interviews with both Confederate and Union soldiers.

A few historical figures were involved in the Cherokee Freedmen trials. Namely, Ethan Allen Hitchcock served as the United States Secretary of the Interior under Presidents William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt from 1899 to 1907. Also, the attorneys for the Cherokee Nation, James Davenport and W.W. Hastings (in all likelihood, William Wirt. referenced as "W. W. Hastings" in transcripts, but a William Wirt Hastings, of Cherokee heritage and from Oklahoma, was an attorney who worked in private practice, as the attorney general for the Cherokee Nation, and then as the national attorney for the Nation from 1907. The dates do match up, and there is a W. W. Hastings Hospital in Tahlequah, given by William Wirt when he was in Congress, as a gift) both of whom later served as U.S. Representatives for Oklahoma.

The affidavits, correspondence, and any support materials are arranged in alphabetical order by the surname of the applicant. Note: File 22 is in critical need of preservation.