Quarto, one page, plus stamp less address leaf, formerly folded, otherwise in very good, clean, and legible condition. Docketed on verso by Sutherland: “Alfred Cowles Chicago Ill. Aug. 13th 1852 relative to my speech against the Homestead bill”
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4 letters, quarto, 7 pages, written on the letterhead of the Chicago Theological Seminary, of which Hammond was then treasurer, in very good, clean and legible condition.
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Community Book Shop, Chicago. July 31, 1950. Addressed to “Faculty Member” of the University of Chicago. Edgeworn. Warning that “a gang of hoodlums” were terrorizing Blacks and Jews on East 55th Street in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago:
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25 letters, 40 pages, dated from September 26, 1844 to April 3, 1858, written, in ink, in a legible hand. One letter is from 1844, the rest are dated between1852-1858. Fifteen of the twenty-five letters were written to Doughty by his brother-in-law…
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