Lot.
(Anti-Slavery Movement.) File of Manuscripts & C: Relating primarily to the editors of the abolitionist newspaper "The Independant" - Joseph P. Thompson, Leonard Bacon & supporter Seth B. Hunt. Includes approx. 130 autograph letters signed., c1845-75. Mostly from Thompson to Bacon, a few from Bacon to Thompson. Also ms material, incl. anti-slavery letters by Beth B. Hunt. Diaries in the hand of Elizabeth Coil Gilman Thompson ( Joseph P's wife) & other related women. Lot also includes 1/2 plate ambrotype portrait of Joseph Parrish Thompson (c1860) in rough case & carte de visite portrait of his father Isaac Thompson. Also material relating to J.P. Thompson's son W. Gilman Thompson, M.D. The July 28, 1853 issue of the Independant.
Thompson, Joseph P. (1819-1879); Hunt, Seth B. (1811-1880).