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July, 1817: The ‘Era of Good Feelings’ begins in Boston
These entries from John Gallison’s diaries contain a few updates on the financial affairs of Gallison’s Aunt Scott. Once known as Mrs. John Hancock, she was in the process of liquidating her estate, the enormous fortune inherited from her first husband having been...
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth
Phillis Wheatley Peters’s poem “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, &c.” was published in her collection Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral in 1773. In this poem, Wheatley...
Charles Coates Interview Notes (Viola Muse Digital Edition)
Viola B. Muse (1898-1981) worked from 1936 through 1939 as an interviewer and writer in the Negro Writers Unit of the Florida Federal Writers Project in Jacksonville, Florida. Muse and the other writers in the Negro Writers Unit, including Zora Neale Hurston,...
Ruth Henshaw Bascom (1772-1848) diary page February 12-18, 1835
In 2027 the Colonial Society of Massachusetts will publish a digital transcription of the Ruth Henshaw Bascom Papers, 1789-1846, transcribed by Mary Eileen Fouratt and edited by Maureen Egan and Sally Hadden. The original RHB Papers are held at the...
Letter from Elizabeth Milligan to Millard Fillmore, June 5, 1844
The Correspondence of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore is assembling an edition of letters written by or to those men between 1844 and 1853. During that decade, which preceded and included their terms in the White House, the United States expanded its boundaries...
Don Guillermo Gernon, sobre impetrar matrimonio con doña Isabel MacEnery
This document forms part of the East Florida Papers, a collection of records from the Second Spanish Period (1784-1821) in Florida held today at the Library of Congress. Following the stipulations of a royal decree from 1776 regulating marriage, Guillermo (William)...
Charles W. Chesnutt to W. E. B. Du Bois, 27 June 1903
On June 27, 1903, the ground-breaking African American writer of fiction, Charles Chesnutt, sent letters to both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Chesnutt had a long-standing friendship with Washington, but he aligned in thought more with Du Bois who...
Letter from the Citizens of Warren County, Mississippi
In the wake of white supremacist violence in Clinton, Mississippi, citizens of Vicksburg wrote their governor in September 1875, warning that if protection was not provided to voters, they would be “forced away from the polls and not allowed to vote.” Addressing Gov....
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