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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Reasons for abolishing capital punishment
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Rare Books
296459
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Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan, Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley. The three autograph letters signed from James Buchanan to Marvin H. Bovee are dated 1864 October 18 (BV 9), 1867 December 9 (BV 10), and 1868 February 10 (BV 11).
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Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan (three autograph letters signed), Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley.
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Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan (three autograph letters signed), Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley.
mssBV
Image not available
Manuscripts
The collection primarily consists of letters received by Marvin H. Bovee regarding the abolition of capital punishment and Democratic politics, dating from 1850 to 1887. Correspondents include James Buchanan (three autograph letters signed), Horace Greeley, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horatio Seymour, Gerrit Smith, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Sumner, Henry Whitney Bellows, John Greenleaf Whittier, Salmon P. Chase, Morgan Dix, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Theodore Tilton, Fernando Wood, and others; in addition, there is some Bovee family correspondence including two letters from Marvin H. Bovee to his wife. Also present are contemporary copies of four poems, Bovee family obituaries, and a carte-de-visite of Horace Greeley.
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