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San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
John Conness letter to Charles Sumner
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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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Manuscripts
In this letter to an unknown recipient, John Conness writes that "the men of my time have passed" and that "their names will stand identified for all time with great work in serving our country."
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Conness informs Wilson that he has moved, and will be happy to host Wilson and his wife when they have time to visit.
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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.
mssHM 26264
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New York. A portion of this letter fills blank pages of a note from Guido Norman Lieber to Francis Lieber.
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These four letters are replies to letters that Mrs. McDougal wrote to these four American politicians: Senator Harry F. Byrd, Senator William F. Knowland, Senator Robert F. Taft (this one is addressed to Mr. John Barton McDougal), and Vice-President Richard Nixon (signed "Dick Nixon").
mssHM 75982-75985
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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.
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