Josephine W. Griffing letters, 1862-1872

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• Josephine W. Griffing letters

Description

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Letters written to Mrs. Josephine Sophie White Griffing relating to her interests in the emancipation of African-Americans, temperance, and woman's suffrage. It is evident that the letters have been preserved selectively from Mrs. Griffing's papers, all of them being from well-known contemporaries. Correspondents include Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, Horace Greeley, Henry Ward Beecher, Anna Dickinson, Lucretia Mott, William H. Seward, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Many of the letters relate to her efforts to have prominent people give lectures in support of women's suffrage. Also, a scrapbook of clippings about Mrs. Griffing's life and activities and the autograph book of George T. Driggs, a relative, which contains the signatures of prominent political and military figures, particularly members of Congress, during the late 1860s.

• Josephine W. Griffing letters

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Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Josephine W. Griffing letters; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Alternate Form Available

Microfilm available with the exception of the scrapbook and autograph album.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Parish, William. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1946. Accession number--M-46.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.

Revision Description

2022-06-23 folder list added.

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Biographical / Historical

American social reformer.