Manuscripts
Charles Sumner correspondence
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Charles Sumner correspondence
Manuscripts
Letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana Leveson-Gower Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, American sculptor and writer William Wetmore Story, and others, concerning the relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; national politics in the years immediately preceding, during and after the war, President Andrew Johnson, travels in England, France, and Italy, and law and literature.
mssHM 25934-25991
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Charles Sumner papers
Manuscripts
Primarily letters from Charles Sumner to Elizabeth Georgiana (Leveson-Gower) Campbell, Duchess of Argyll regarding relations of the United States with Great Britain and British opinion of the Civil War; letters also discuss Reconstruction and Andrew Johnson.
mssHM 51903-51972
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Privy Seals [UNCATALOGED]
Manuscripts
Approximately 1,000 Privy Seal warrants from the tenure of the office of Keeper of the Privy Seal by Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Gower and 1st Marquis of Stafford, in 1755-57 and 1784-94.
mssEL
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Charles Sumner "Monopoly" speech:
Manuscripts
Autograph draft of a speech in the Senate on a bill to regulate commerce among the several states with some insertions in other hands (56 pages).
mssHM 897
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Charles Sumner Senate Chamber protest manuscript
Manuscripts
Protest and second protest (upon being requested to appear before a Committee appointed by the Senate to investigate the sale of Arms to France) against the formation and constitution of the Committee as contrary to Parliamentiary Law, autograph manuscript with portions in hand of a clerk. Bound with portrait of Sumner. (32 pages).
mssHM 788
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Charles Sumner letter to Salmon P. Chase
Manuscripts
Letter to Salmon P. Chase discussing Lincoln's visit to Richmond on April 9, 1865 and the plans for Reconstruction: "Never was I more convinced of the utter impossibility of any organization which is not founded on the votes of the negroes."
mssHM 21702