Manuscripts

Charles Sumner "Monopoly" speech:

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Description: 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).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: approximately 1865 February 14.
Call number: mssHM 897
Creator: Sumner, Charles (1811-1874)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from William K. Bixby, 1918.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

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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The Law of Human Progress: An Oration before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Union College, in New York. July 25th 1848. :

Manuscripts

The extra-illustrated volume including an autograph manuscript of Sumner's address before the Phi Beta Kappa society of the Union College of Schenectady, N.Y. on July 25, 1848. The manuscript (HM 75886) is a draft with insertions, corrections, editorial changes, etc.

mssHM 75881-75884, HM 75886

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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 correspondence

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mssHM 25934-25991

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Charles A. Sumner letter to Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro

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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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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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