Gerrit Smith Papers
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Syracuse, NY 13244
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DESCRIPTION:
Social reformer and philanthropist from Peterboro, New York.
Business, family and general correspondence, incoming and outgoing (1795-1897); business and land records (1775-1910); writings (1820-1924); and maps (1790-1827). Correspondents include Susan B. Anthony, John Jacob Astor, Henry W. Beecher, Antoinette Blackwell, Caleb Calkins, Lydia Child, Cassius Clay, Alfred Conkling, Roscoe Conkling, Charles A. Dana, Paulina W. Davis, Edward C. Delavan, and Frederick Douglass. Other correspondents include Charles G. Finney, Abby Kelley Foster, Henry H. Garnet, William Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley, Beriah Green, Angelina and Sarah Grimké, Hinton R. Helper, Julia Ward Howe, S.G. Howe, DeWitt C. Littlejohn, Horace Mann, Samuel J. May, John H. Noyes, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, John Pierpont, Parker Pillsbury, Charles B. Ray, Henry R. Schoolcraft, Mary H. Schoolcraft, W.H. Seward, Elizabeth Smith, James M. Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Henry B. Stanton, Lucy Stone, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Sumner, Lewis Tappan, Theodore Tilton, Sojourner Truth, Martin Van Buren, Jacob Van Vechten, Thurlow Weed, Theodore Weld, Andrew D. White, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Victoria C. Woodhull.
Dates: 1775-1924
Size of Collection: 130.0 linear ft.
Related Site:
- Gerrit Smith Broadside and Pamphlet Collection: Contains the full text of 214 of Smith's writings on the subjects of abolitionism, suffrage, transporation, and the postal system.
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