Boston (Mass.)

Correspondence, including letters received and copies of letters sent by Boston lawyer and abolitionist Lysander Spooner (1808-1887). Many of the letters pertain to Spooner's activities as an abolitionist and author of works opposing slavery. Included are 100 letters to or from George Bradburn, 106 letters to or from Gerrit Smith, 7 pieces of correspondence with Charles D. Cleveland, 7 with Daniel Drayton, 19 with Richard Goodell, 10 with Charles D. Miller, 9 with John A. Thomson, 11 letters from Daniel McFarland, and 4 letters from Lewis Tappan.

Engraved newspaper illustration of the Seventh Regiment in formation in Boston, with inscription.

American Civil War broadside promoting Union Army recruitment efforts in Massachusetts.

Correspondence and papers of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, originally known as the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.