Manuscripts

To "Mr. Editor:" Drafts of a letter to the Press on the Right of Secession

Description: Columbia, South Carolina. Unbound manuscript, with a contemporary copy with additions and corrections by Lieber. Also enclosed: newspaper clippings of several relevant speeches, including Lieber's Grenville speech, and four more by "Suburanus," Lieber's pseudonym; a booklet with a printed copy of Randolph Letters on The Right of Secession.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1850-1851
Call number: LI 21
Creator: Lieber, Francis (1800-1872)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Mary Lieber, 1927.
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A lecture delivered before the Boston Society for diffusion of useful Knowledge

Manuscripts

Boston. Unbound manuscript; contemporary copy, with Lieber's additions and corrections.

LI 13

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Some Questions Answered - Secession - The Strength of Armies and Navy, etc

Manuscripts

Columbia, S.C. Also enclosed: a copy in the handwriting of Matilda Lieber, with added paragraph in Lieber's hand.

LI 369

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The Story of Peter Lehring (or Schabe)

Manuscripts

Three unbound draft variants (A,B,C); in English and German. Written under Francis Lieber's pseudonym Arnold Franz.

LI 5

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Ignatius Seelenhau in London, a Memoir for strangers who experienced hard times in London

Manuscripts

Unbound manuscript; title and text in German. Written under Francis Lieber's pseudonym Arnold Franz. Title also includes the phrase: "With beautiful and explanatory woodcuts added."

LI 6

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Notes and press cuttings on Secession

Manuscripts

In Lieber's original paper folder.

LI 20

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Right of Instruction: press cuttings

Manuscripts

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.

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To "Mr. Editor:" Drafts of a letter to the Press on the Right of Secession

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