Gerrit Smith correspondence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 13
Subjects: Correspondence; Freedmen; History; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Charities; Slavery
Description: Letters written by Smith to E. M. Giffing, O. L. Holley, Sallie Holley, Luther R. Marsh, and Theodore Dwight Weld relating to abolition of slavery, Smith's donation of land to freedmen, Civil War, and Reconstruction.  Includes note of Smith's wife, Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith, to Angelina Emily Grimké (Mrs. Theodore Dwight Weld) and her sister, Sarah Moore Grimké.
Notes: Open to research.

Purchase, 1919-1981.

U.S. representative from New York, philanthropist, and abolitionist.

Collection material in English.

Forms part of: Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.