Scope and Content

Correspondence of Joshua Giddings with family members and acquaintances, including William LLoyd Garrison, regarding reconstruction policy; also correspondence of George W. Julian (1817-1899), Member of Congress from Indiana, and others, including the American Abolition Society, Charles Francis Adams, and Salmon P. Chase; concerning the Republican Party, slavery, the 1856 Republican convention, and political strategy.

Scope and Content Correspondence, journal, clippings, and manuscript drafts of books, speeches, articles, and essays, both published and unpublished, 1823-1876; including correspondence with the Comte de Montalembert, Louis Veuillot, Lord Acton, John Henry Cardinal Newman, George Bancroft, Salmon Chase, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Isaac Hecker, Henry David Thoreau, and Archbishops John Hughes, Francis Patrick Kenrick and Martin Spalding; manuscripts of essays by Albert Brisbane, Archbishop Francis P. Kenrick, George...