Comprehensive Index
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Antislavery in Concord
INTRODUCTION
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1. Anti-Slavery Meeting on the Common [Boston]. Engraving from an 1851 issue of Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. From Collection of Mounted Engravings Primarily from the Estate of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, CFPL Vault Collection.
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I. CONCORD CONTEXT
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2. Concord Center, 1860s. Early photographic print. CFPL Photofile.
3. H.F. Walling. “Concord Village” inset, Map of the Town of Concord, Middlesex County, Mass. Surveyed by Authority of the Town (Boston: H.F. Walling, 1852). CFPL Map Collection.
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II. LOCAL ANTISLAVERY SOCIETIES
II.A. Middlesex County Antislavery Society:
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4. Bound manuscript record book, 1834-1844, opened to minutes of July 23, 1839 meeting. From Middlesex County Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
5. Manuscript list of officers for 1848, showing William Whiting of Concord as president, Mary Merrick Brooks as a member of the executive committee. From Middlesex County Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
6. Manuscript list of officers for 1849, showing William Whiting as president, Sophia Thoreau and Mary Merrick Brooks as members of the executive committee. Middlesex County Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
7. Printed notice, April 4, 1851, from the Boston Vigilance Committee, issued in the wake of the arrest of fugitive slave Thomas Sims at Boston the day before. From Middlesex County Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
8. Account of March 5, 1850 Middlesex County Antislavery Society meeting in Concord (transcribed from the Liberator, April 12, 1850).
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II.B. Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society:
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9. Manuscript notice (December 12, 1853) of upcoming benefit tea and dancing party at Town Hall. From Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
10. Manuscript announcement (September 29, 1863) of upcoming meeting, Maria Pratt to Mrs. John Barrett. From Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
11. Manuscript announcement (December 30, 1864) of upcoming meeting, Mary Merrick Brooks to Mrs. Barrett. From Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
12. Manuscript notice of upcoming benefit fair at Shepherd’s Hall. From Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
13. The Concord Anti-Slavery Society Will Hold Its Annual Festival in the Town Hall, Concord, on Thursday Evening, Jan. 28, 1858 … (broadside notice). CFPL Concord Pamphlet Collection.
14. Secretary’s 1843 annual report, Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society, including an account of the Society’s founding (transcribed from the Liberator, June 23, 1843).
15. Harriet Robinson’s account of the Concord Ladies’ Antislavery Society (transcribed from Harriet Robinson’s “Warrington” Pen-Portraits: A Collection of Personal and Political Reminiscences from 1848 to 1876, from the Writings of William S. Robinson (Boston: Edited and Published by Mrs. W. S. Robinson, 1877).
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III. SOME KEY CONCORD ABOLITIONISTS
III.A. Mary Merrick Brooks:
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16. Nathan Brooks House, ca. 1865, at the intersection of Main Street and Sudbury Road (now located at 45 Hubbard Street). Early photographic print, CFPL Photofile.
17. Newspaper clipping: recipe for Brooks Cake, from the Portland Transcript (copied from Harriet Robinson’s “Warrington” Pen-Portraits, 1877). From Scrapbook of Miscellaneous Concord-related Materials, CFPL Vault Collection.
18. Description of and recipe for “Brooks Cake” (transcribed from Harriet Robinson’s “Warrington” Pen-Portraits,” 1877).
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III.A. Mary Merrick Brooks: Mary and Caroline Brooks Witness the Burning of Pennsylvania Hall, 1838:
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19. Mary Merrick Brooks. Letter to Nathan Brooks (“My dearest Hussey”), Philadelphia, May 13, 1838, referring to Mrs. Brooks’s planned attendance at a speech at the Antislavery Convention of American Women in Pennsylvania Hall with her step-daughter Caroline (the hall was destroyed by rioters four days later). From Nathan Brooks Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
20. Bessie Keyes Hudson. Account of 1838 Antislavery Convention of American Women in Philadelphia (including transcription of letter from Caroline Brooks to Elizabeth Prichard, May 13, 1838), from typescript address “Memories of Mrs. E.R. Hoar” by Bessie Keyes Hudson before the Women’s Parish Association of the First Parish in Concord, 1909. From Hudson Family Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
21. Engraving by J. Sartain of Pennsylvania Hall burning, in Elizabeth Palmer Peabody’s copy of History of Pennsylvania Hall, Which Was Destroyed by a Mob, on the 17th of May, 1838 (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gunn, 1838). From Peabody Books, CFPL Vault Collection.
22. William Lloyd Garrison. Letter to Mary Merrick Brooks, Boston, July 30, 1863. From Nathan Brooks Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
23. Wendell Phillips’s obituary of Mary Merrick Brooks (transcribed from the National Anti-Slavery Standard, July 11, 1868).
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III.B. The Emersons:
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24. Carte de visite portrait photograph of Lidian Emerson. CFPL Photofile.
25. J. W. Black (Boston). Carte de visite portrait photograph of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1850s. CFPL Photofile.
26. John Fowler Trow. Alton Trials: of Winthrop S. Gilman, Who Was Indicted with Enoch Long, Amos B. Roff[,] George H. Walworth, George H. Whitney, William Harned, John S. Noble, James Morss, Jr., Henry Tanner, Royal Weller, Reuben Gerry, and Thaddeus B. Hurlbut; for the Crime of Riot, Committed on the night of the 7th of November, 1837, while engaged in defending a Printing Press, from an Attack Made on It at That Time, by an Armed Mob … Also, the Trial of John Solomon, Levi Palmer, Horace Beall, Josiah Nutter, Jacob Smith, David Butler, William Carr, and James M. Rock, Indicted with James Jennings, Solomon Morgan, and Frederick Bruchy; for a Riot Committed in Alton, On the night of the 7th of November, 1837, in unlawfully and forcibly entering the Warehouse of Godfrey, Gilman & Co., and breaking up and destroying a Printing Press … (New York: John F. Trow, 1838). From Peabody Books, CFPL Vault Collection.
27. Announcement of August 1, 1844 celebration in Concord on the anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies (transcribed from the Liberator, July 12, 1844).
28. Ralph Waldo Emerson. An Address Delivered in the Court-House in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negroes in the British West Indies (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844). From Newton/Emerson Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
29. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The Fugitive Slave Law: Address to Citizens of Concord, 3 May, 1851,” in Miscellanies, Volume 11 of the Autograph Centenary Edition of The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1904). From R. W. Emerson Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
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III.C. The Thoreaus:
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30. Silhouette of Cynthia Thoreau. Copy of original as photographed by Alfred Winslow Hosmer and included in his extra-illustrated copy of the 1896 second edition of H. S. Salt’s Life of Henry David Thoreau. From Alfred W. Hosmer’s “Grangerized Salt,” CFPL Vault Collection.
31. Mounted photographic portrait of Maria Thoreau, as rephotographed by A. W. Hosmer from original. CFPL Photofile.
32. Photographic portrait of Helen Thoreau. Copy of original as rephotographed by A. W. Hosmer and made into a carte de visite. CFPL Photofile.
33. Photographic portrait of Sophia Thoreau. Copy of original as rephotographed by A. W. Hosmer and made into a mounted print. CFPL Photofile.
34. Carte de visite portrait photograph of (Miss) Prudence Ward, as rephotographed by A. W. Hosmer from the original. CFPL Photofile.
35. William Lloyd Garrison’s obituary of Helen Thoreau (transcribed from the Liberator, June 22, 1849).
36. National Anti-Slavery Standard, New York, September 30, 1854 (Vol. 15, no. 19), containing article “Gov. Washburn and the Burns Case.” From Thoreau Family Collection, CFPL Vault Collection.
37. Star of Emancipation (Boston: For the Fair of the Massachusetts Female Emancipation Society, 1841). CFPL Vault Collection.
38. Helen Thoreau. Antislavery scrapbook, 1837-1843. CFPL Vault Collection.
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III.C. The Thoreaus: Henry David Thoreau:
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39. Samuel Worcester Rowse. Crayon portrait of Henry David Thoreau, 1854. CFPL Art Collection, from the bequest of Sophia Thoreau to the CFPL, 1876/77.
40. Henry David Thoreau. “Resistance to Civil Government,” in Aesthetic Papers. Edited by Elizabeth P. Peabody … (Boston: The Editor, 1849). From E. P. Peabody Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
41. Henry David Thoreau. “Slavery in Massachusetts,” in Cape Cod and Miscellanies, Volume 4 of the Manuscript Edition of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906). From H. D. Thoreau Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
42. Boston Police and Night Watch Conveying the Fugitive Slave, Sims, to the Vessel. Engraving from an 1851 issue of Gleason’s Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion. From Collection of Mounted Engravings Primarily from the Estate of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, CFPL Vault Collection.
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III.D. The Alcotts:
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43. Randall (Detroit, Mich.). Carte de visite portrait photograph of Abigail May Alcott. CFPL Photofile.
44. Warren’s (Boston, Mass.). Carte de visite photograph of Amos Bronson Alcott. CFPL Photofile.
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III.E. The Hoar Family:
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45. A. Sonrel (Boston). Carte de visite portrait photograph of Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar. CFPL Photofile.
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III.F. The Robinsons:
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46. J. A. J. Wilcox. Engraved portrait of William Stevens Robinson—frontispiece in “Warrington” Pen-Portraits (1877). From W. S. Robinson Collection, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
47. Free Soil County Committee of Middlesex County. Lowell, Oct. 16, 1851. Dear Sir: The Free Soil County Committee wish to address to you a few suggestions relative to the approaching Election …[printed circular], 1851. CFPL Broadside Collection.
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III.G. The Whitings:
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48. Stereographic photograph of Colonel William Whiting House (now 169 Main Street), Concord, 1860s. CFPL Photofile.
49. [Louisa Jane Whiting]. Influence of Slavery Upon the White Population. By a Former Resident of Slave States ([New York: American Antislavery Society, 1855]), No. 9 in series Anti-Slavery Tracts. CFPL Concord Pamphlet Collection.
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III.H. Josiah Bartlett:
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50. Alfred Munroe. Cabinet card portrait photograph of Dr. Josiah Bartlett. CFPL Photofile.
51. William Lloyd Garrison. Letter to Josiah Bartlett, June 1, 1869. From Bartlett Family Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
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III.I. The Prescotts:
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52. Tintype portrait of Maria King Prescott. CFPL Photofile.
53. Newspaper clipping: (For the Register). Obituary … [of Abba Prescott Brooks], 1851. From Obituary Scrapbook Volume 1, CFPL Vault Collection.
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III.J. The Garrisons:
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54. Deed, John Garrison and Susan Garrison to Daniel Shattuck, for "all right, title and interest, which we or either of us have in and to the Dwelling House and land under and about the same, where we now live in … Concord, being the same Dwelling House reserved for the said Susan’s use and occupation during her natural life by Humphrey Barrett," April 10, 1837. From Miscellaneous Property Documents (Primarily Deeds) Relating Mainly to Concord, CFPL Vault Collection.
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III.K. The Hunts:
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55. Alfred Munroe. Portrait photograph of William Henry Hunt from glass plate negative, ca. 1885. From Alfred Munroe Glass Plate Negative Collection, CFPL Vault Collection.
56. Alfred Munroe. Photograph from glass plate negative of Daniel Hunt House (right) and adjoining Nehemiah Hunt House (left) on Punkatasset Hill, 1880s. From Alfred Munroe Glass Plate Negative Collection, CFPL Vault Collection.
57. William Henry Hunt. Manuscript reminiscences about the old Hunt farmhouse on Monument Street and life in Concord in the mid-19th century, 1926. CFPL Vault Collection.
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IV. ANTISLAVERY LECTURES IN CONCORD
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IV.A. Frederick Douglass:
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58. Engraved portrait of Frederick Douglass. From Howard Carroll’s Twelve Americans (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883). CFPL Basement Collection.
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IV.B. Wendell Phillips and the Concord Lyceum:
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59. Concord Lyceum. Record volume, 1828-1859, showing entry for March 11, 1845 lecture by Wendell Phillips. From Concord Lyceum Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
60. F. T. Stuart (Boston). Engraved portrait of Wendell Phillips, in William Taylor Newton’s extra-illustrated copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The Conduct of Life—Vol. 6 of the large paper Riverside Edition of Emerson’s Complete Works (Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1883). CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
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IV.C. Theodore Parker:
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61. Newspaper notice of upcoming lecture on slavery by Theodore Parker: “We understand that a lecture … ” [in June 13, 1845 issue of Concord Freeman]. CFPL Concord Newspaper Collection.
62. Engraved portrait of Theodore Parker, in William Taylor Newton’s extra-illustrated copy of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Miscellanies—Vol. 11 of the large paper Riverside Edition of Emerson’s Complete Works (Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press, 1883). CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
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IV.D. George Thompson:
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63. Concord Lyceum. Record volume, 1828-1859, showing entry for January 15, 1851 Concord Lyceum lecture on “British Politics” by George Thompson. From Concord Lyceum Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
64. George Thompson. Manuscript: Skeleton of a Lecture by George Thompson M.P. of England [outline of January 15, 1851 lecture before the Concord Lyceum]. From Concord Antiquarian Society Collection, CFPL Vault Collection.
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V. UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
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65. Richardson (Boston). Carte de visite portrait photograph of Ann Bigelow in later years. CFPL Photofile.
66. Alfred Winslow Hosmer. Photograph from glass plate negative of home of Francis Edwin and Ann Bigelow (now 19 Sudbury Road), Concord. From Alfred W. Hosmer Collection of Glass Plate Negative Images, CFPL Vault Collection.
67. Edward Waldo Emerson. Underground Railroad, Concord Station & Division [manuscript notes from an interview with Mrs. Francis Bigelow about the Underground Railroad in Concord and about the rescue of Shadrach Minkins], December 13, 1892. From Edward Waldo Emerson Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
68. Edward Waldo Emerson’s interview with Ann Bigelow (transcribed from the manuscript notes of his 1892 interview).
69. Ann Bigelow’s account of Shadrach in Concord (transcribed from Harriet Robinson’s “Warrington” Pen-Portraits,” 1877).
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VI. FRANK SANBORN
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70. Ambrotype portrait of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn as a young man. CFPL Vault Collection.
71. Engraved image: Arrest and Rescue of Frank B. Sanborn, Esq., at Concord, Massachusetts, on the Night of April 3, 1860 (clipped from Harper’s Weekly for April 14, 1860). CFPL Concord Pamphlet Collection.
72. Kansas relief subscription list (manuscript on letterpress form), [1855 or 1856]. From Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
73. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Letter [to Theodore Parker], Concord, June 10, 1856. From Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
74. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Manuscript: Prologue. Spoken at the Anti Slavery Festival, Concord, Jan’y 28th 1858. From Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
75. John Brown. Letter to Franklin B. Sanborn, Brooklyn, February 26, 1858. From Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
76. Sanborn’s account of his attempted arrest on April 3, 1860 (transcribed from his Recollections of Seventy Years, Boston: R. G. Badger, 1909).
77. John Shepard Keyes. Manuscript autobiography, 1821-1866, showing description of April 3, 1860 attempted arrest of Frank Sanborn. John Shepard Keyes Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
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VII. JOHN BROWN
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78. Early print from portrait photograph of John Brown, 1859. CFPL Photofile (matted and framed).
79. City Hall [Town House], Concord, 1875: card stereograph from series American Scenery: New England Scenes. The Centennial Celebration at Concord, Mass. CFPL Photofile.
80. Engraved image: General View of Harper’s Ferry and the Maryland Heights.—Photographed by Brady, from an 1862 issue of Harper’s Weekly. From Collection of Mounted Engravings Primarily from the Estate of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, CFPL Vault Collection.
81. Handbill: Martyrdom of John Brown [program for memorial service for Brown in Concord’s Town Hall, December 2, 1859]. CFPL Broadside Collection.
82. Early dispatches about Brown’s raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry (transcribed from the New York Daily Tribune, October 18, 1859).
83. Brown’s raid on Harpers’ Ferry reported in Boston (transcribed from the Boston Daily Courier, October 18, 1859).
84. John Shepard Keyes on the December 2, 1859 John Brown memorial service in Concord (transcribed from Keyes’s manuscript autobiography).
85. Announcement of the Brown commemoration in North Elba, New York (transcribed from the Liberator, June 29, 1860).
86. Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. Account for expenses relating to Anna and Sarah Brown’s attendance at Sanborn’s Concord School, 1860-1861. From Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Papers, CFPL Vault Collection.
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VIII. CIVIL WAR
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87. Broadside: War! War! War! The Freeman of Old Concord will meet at the Town Hall, On Friday Evening, April 19th, at 7 1-2 O’Clock, to take measures to fill up the ranks and strengthen the arms of the Concord Artillery Company, that they may go forth to fight our country’s battles as our fathers did in ’75. Come one! Come all!! From the farm and the workshop, the counting room and the office, and show by our action that we are not degenerate sons of brave sires. Concord, April 17, 1861. CFPL Broadside Collection.
88. Broadside: Surrender of Lee!! Richmond is Ours!! Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!! Social Dance at the Town Hall, Concord, This, Monday Evening, in Honor of the Recent Victories!!! All Are Invited. Tickets, 25 cts., for Benefit of the Soldiers’ Aid. Concord, April 10, 1865. CFPL Broadside Collection.
89. Broadside: The People of Concord Are Invited to Meet at the Church of the First Parish, on Wednesday, April 19th, at 12 O’Clock, at Noon, to unite in the solemnities to be observed by the whole country at the hour of the funeral of Abraham Lincoln, the Late President of the United States. And it is also requested that all labor and business be suspended on that day, between the hours of 11 and 2 o’clock. Nathan B. Stow, Elijah Wood, Benjamin Tolman, Selectmen of Concord. Concord, April 18th, 1865. CFPL Broadside Collection.
90. Concord Soldiers’ Aid Society. Record volume, 1861-1865. From Concord Soldiers’ Aid Society Records, CFPL Vault Collection.
91. Monitor (Concord: Albert Stacy, 1862) [bound volume containing complete run of this local periodical]. From the Thoreau Library of Alfred Winslow Hosmer, CFPL Concord Authors Collection.
92. Ralph Waldo Emerson. “The President’s Proclamation,” in the Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 61, November, 1862. CFPL Periodical Collection.
93. Abraham Lincoln. Nineteenth-century facsimile of letter to “Madam” [Mary Peabody Mann], Washington, April 5, 1864, on Executive Mansion letterhead. From Concord Free Public Library Letter File, CFPL Vault Collection.
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