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Shall Utah be admitted into the Union? : article ; Debate in Congress on Mormon Polygamy ; printed material


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    Union League Club (New York): draft of resolutions, printed speeches and other material, clippings

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    New York. Paper bound notebook, with loose material.

    LI 412

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    Education in Liberia: a revision of a letter to Simon Greenleaf, originally published in 1851

    Manuscripts

    Unbound manuscript: a printed copy with autograph additions and corrections. Also enclosed: Letter on Races, printed clippings with annotations, in two paper bound notebooks.

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    Thoughts and Observations on oratory in Congress

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    A collection of approximately 6000 items from 1815 to 1936, the collection consists of Francis Lieber's correspondence, notes and other manuscripts and published materials accumulated in the preparation of his works during his political and academic career. The collection contains articles, essays, remarks, correspondence, volumes, commonplace books, research files, printed material, and ephemera. The manuscript material often contains various drafts, with supporting research and subject files; the correspondence contains personal and family letters and a large amount of professional correspondence. Correspondents include, among others, his wife Matilda (Mathilde) Lieber, other Lieber family members, Samuel Austin Allibone, Edward Bates, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Hamilton Fish, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Simon Greenleaf, Henry Wager Halleck, George Stillman Hillard, ⁹douard Laboulaye, Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier, Charles Sumner, Martin Russell Thayer, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Theodore Dwight Woolsey. Subjects in the collection include political science and theory; constitutional history; political economy; international law; philosophy and history of civilization; penology, including Lieber's association with the prison reform movement; education, particularly college and university administration; United States and European politics; antebellum debates and campaigns; slavery and abolitionism; politics of the Civil War, including problems of the citizenship of African-Americans, immigrants, and former Confederates; constitutional powers of the President and Congress; Republican Party, especially its radical wing; military aspects of the Civil War as reflected in Lieber's correspondence with Halleck; reconstruction, including plans for codification of international law; and Lieber's service with the United States-Mexican Claims Commission.

    LI 492

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    Commonplace book

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    Bound notebook, with loose paper covers. In German and English, with printed material laid in.

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    Commonplace book

    Manuscripts

    Bound volume, with damaged leather spine. In German and English; with printed material laid in.

    LI 31

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    English, Latin, German, French loose pamphlets, articles, clippings, printed material

    Manuscripts

    39 items; some with autograph notes by Francis Lieber. Oversize box removed to Oversize Shelving. This material was transferred from the Acquisitions and Cataloging Department on August 1, 1984.

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