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Charles A. Sumner letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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Description: Sumner writes of the 1862 efforts of Jacob Beideman of "defending his large real estate property rights in this city by a newspaper," and describes the results. Sumer writes of the political efforts of his group: "We saved every homestead in the city" from what he calls "an organized party of scoundrels; chief among them were the newspaper manipulators." With a brief printed biography of Sumner.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1874, July 27.
Call number: mssHM 26264
Creator: Sumner, Charles A (1835-1903)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William Wreden, 1961, January 5.

Philip Deidesheimer letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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Letter from Philip Deidesheimer in Virginia City, Nevada, to Adolph Sutro. Deidesheimer writes of his desire to see Sutro and asks him to come back to Virginia City as soon as he can. He also writes of the mines in Nevada, including that "there is mutiny near" at the Ophir Mine. He also writes that he hopes to be made one of the Sutro Tunnel Commissioners, of his invention of the timbering system, that he "never dreamed" of patenting the system "until of late," and asks Sutro to inquire into patenting the design for him, noting that "if I could yet get a patent it would bring me an income of at least one million...dollars a year."

mssHM 29230

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Charles Sumner papers

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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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Charles Sumner correspondence

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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 correspondence

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mssHM 25934-25991

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Charles Sumner Senate Chamber protest manuscript

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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

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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

Charles A. Sumner letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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