American Historical Ephemera & Photography

Memorial. To the President of the United States, the Secretaries of War and of the Interior, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives... N.p.: n.p., ca 1868. 7pp., 5 1/8 x 8 1/2 in. pamphlet (modern adhesive repair to binding, significant rips an tears to page edges with modern adhesive repair). Singed in type by members of the Society of Friends including Lucretia Mott. Likely the same "memorial of the Society of Friends in regards to the Indians" as presented to the Indian Peace Commissioners by a delegation of the Society of Friends and read by Benjamin Hallowell on 12 December 1867. A scarce imprint illuminating Quaker roles in making and implementing Federal Indian Policy.  -- Shall the Red-Men Be Exterminated? Notes of Tours Among the Wilder Tribes of Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, Colorado, and the Indian Territory. N.p.: n.p., 1869. 8pp., 6 x 9 1/4 in. Disbound, nail bound, with what appears to be the latter half of the article from the same journal, likely Putnam's Magazine. Article by Vincent Colyer following his state sanctioned trip "...to learn from actual observation the condition and the needs of the 'savages' of our Western domain." -- Together, 2 imprints. 

[With:] Typed poem, "The Indian Pipes,"  identified to poet Mary Thatcher [sic] Higginson (1844-1941). 6 x 6 1/2 in. (light creasing, light wear to edges). Text is that of "Ghost-Flowers" a poem originally published in a July 1893 issue of The Atlantic by Mary Thacher Higginson and then again later in "Such As They Are: Poems" a compilation of poems by Mary Thacher Higginson and her husband, noted abolitionist, soldier, and author Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823-1911).