Beschreibung:

ABOLITIONISTS] A large group of signed items . Comprising an 1859 Henry Ward Beecher inscription with a mounted photograph; an undated (but circa 1864) Julia Ward Howe autograph letter signed regarding a private reading in aid of a fair, an editorship under A.P. Peabody (most likely The Boatswain's Whistle), etc.; a Harriet Beecher Stowe signed card; an interesting signed telegram from Irish reformer Charles Stewart Parnell to Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher upon the death of her husband; two Charles Sumner signed cards with his scarce 1856 printed pamphlet of his famous speech The Crime Against Kansas; William Lloyd Garrison response to an autograph request (affixed to card, soiled); an 1865 autograph letter signed from Samuel J. May; an 1859 autograph letter signed from Edward Everett declining a speaking engagement (mounted); a Thaddeus Stevens clipped signature; an Ezra Cornell card signed twice; a clipped Benjamin Wade signature and a printed copy of an 1858 speech. C