Box 1
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Contains 26 Results:
Thomas S. Grimke (?) autograph collection, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Scope and Contents
"Free" frank fragment of Thomas Frelinghuysen (1787-1862), a United States senator; a cut signature of Richard Peters (1744-1828), delegate to the Continental Congress and United States Federal Judge: signature of Bishop Henry Ustick Onderdonk (1789-1854), Episcopal Bishop of Pennsylvania; signature of Patrick Tonyn (1725-1804), Colonial era governor of E. Florida; fragment of document signed by Benjamin Wood Richards (1797-1851), mayor of Philadelphia; cut signature and title page...
Dates:
undated
Thomas S. Grimke (?) autograph collection, 1756-1825, undated
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Scope and Contents
A page from a manuscript essay mentioning John Rutledge and the American Revolution, attributed to William Cobbett (1763-1836), an English and American pamphleteer and reformer; a cut signature (1825) of Timothy Pickering (1745-1829), United States Secretary of State and Postmaster General; signature of Edward Braddock (1695-1755), British commander of troops in North American, who lost his life in the French and Indian war, pasted on a sheet of biographical information; letter (1756) re...
Dates:
1756-1825, undated
Elizabeth Caroline Grimke letter, 1834
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
Scope and Contents
Letter to her sisters Angelina Grimke and Mrs. Anna Rutledge Grimke Frost re the death of their brother Thomas Smith Grimke, and the impact it had on his widow (?) and a family member named John. With other family information.
Dates:
1834
Frederick Grimke correspondence, 1819-1863
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
Scope and Contents
Letter (1819) of Frederick Grimke to his brother Thomas Smith Grimke re their father's death, with an assessment of his character, and mentions of Sarah Grimke nursing him. With a legal note (1828) to Frederick Grimke in Chillicothe, Ohio. Later correspondence (1860-1863) from Grimke in Philadelphia and Chillicothe to family members focuses on war news and politics, the usurping of power by the Federal government, postal relations between the Confederacy and the USA, his writings, etc. Of...
Dates:
1819-1863
Sarah Moore Grimke correspondence, 1819-1820
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents
Letter of Sarah Moore Grimke to her brother Thomas Smith Grimke re the death of their father, John F. Grimke; with a letter to her re the erection, inspection and payment for a tombstone memorial to John F. Grimke; and letter to her in Wilmington, North Carolina, from Charles Wharton responding to her request for information about her father with references to their friends in common. With typed transcripts.
Dates:
1819-1820
Angelina Grimke Weld and daughter Sarah Weld Hamilton letters, 1873-1874
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
Scope and Contents
Letter (1873) from Weld to her sisters, on the reverse of a printed funeral notice of Sarah M. Grimke, in tribute to her life and a description of her final illness and death; and another letter (1874) to her niece Mary about her death; with a small clipping re eulogies delivered by William Lloyd Garrison and Lucy Stone. With a letter (1874) from Sarah Weld Hamilton to "Cousin Marianna" [Haskell] re her aunt Sarah Moore Grimke's death, mentioning the latter's religious beliefs, with...
Dates:
1873-1874