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- catalog abstract "The bulk of the collection is manuscripts, drafts, clippings, transcripts, and notes for Rice's Life of Eli Thayer. Also includes: letters sent to Rice, visiting cards, examples of printing done by Rice's company, and material pertaining to the Emigrant Aid Society which Thayer founded during the struggle for Kansas. Also contains copies of vital records from towns in Worcester County that Rice used in other publications, and miscellaneous notes. There also are original papers of Eli Thayer that apparently were collected by Rice during his research. These include letters and transcripts of letters sent to Thayer (including 2 from Booker T. Washington), a ticket to an address, his 1844 Brown University exhibition program, certificates given to Thayer from the Kansas State Historical Society, galley proofs of Thayer writings, and other printed items relating to Thayer.".
- catalog alternative "The life of Eli Thayer.".
- catalog contributor b753044.
- catalog contributor b753045.
- catalog contributor b753046.
- catalog contributor b753047.
- catalog coverage "Kansas History 1854-1861.".
- catalog coverage "Worcester (Mass.) History.".
- catalog date "1844".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL.Hough:hou02380".
- catalog description "Eli Thayer (1819-1899) was a member of the US House of Representatives from 1857-1861. He was born in Mendon, Massachusetts, graduated from Worcester Academy in 1840, from Brown University in 1845, and in 1848 founded the Oread Collegiate Institute, a school for young women in Worcester, Massachusetts. He organized the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company to send anti-slavery settlers to the Kansas Territory with the purpose of securing the admission of Kansas to the Union as a free state. Thayer was also involved in establishing an anti-slavery colony, the town of Ceredo, in 1857 in what is now West Virginia.".
- catalog description "Eli Thayer papers and clippings held by Brown University and American Antiquarian Society.".
- catalog description "Franklin Pierce Rice (1852-1919) was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, the only son of Mary Berry Felton Rice (b.1834) and Minot Rice. Franklin Rice was a self-taught printer, author, historian, and publisher who transcribed, printed, and preserved vital records from Massachusetts and was co-founder, in 1875, of the Worcester Society of Antiquity (which later became the Worcester Historical Museum). Rice worked on an extensive biography of Eli Thayer.".
- catalog description "Franklin Pierce Rice Papers, 1844-1912 (MS Am 800.12). Houghton Library, Harvard University.".
- catalog description "See also: MS Am 1018 for typescript of his "Life of Eli Thayer"; and MS Am 1017 for manuscripts of Catalogue and abstracts of the Eli Thayer papers.".
- catalog description "The bulk of the collection is manuscripts, drafts, clippings, transcripts, and notes for Rice's Life of Eli Thayer. Also includes: letters sent to Rice, visiting cards, examples of printing done by Rice's company, and material pertaining to the Emigrant Aid Society which Thayer founded during the struggle for Kansas. Also contains copies of vital records from towns in Worcester County that Rice used in other publications, and miscellaneous notes.".
- catalog description "There also are original papers of Eli Thayer that apparently were collected by Rice during his research. These include letters and transcripts of letters sent to Thayer (including 2 from Booker T. Washington), a ticket to an address, his 1844 Brown University exhibition program, certificates given to Thayer from the Kansas State Historical Society, galley proofs of Thayer writings, and other printed items relating to Thayer.".
- catalog extent "3 boxes (1.5 linear ft.)".
- catalog issued "1844".
- catalog language "In English.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "Kansas History 1854-1861.".
- catalog spatial "Worcester (Mass.) History.".
- catalog subject "Abolitionists.".
- catalog subject "Brown University.".
- catalog subject "New England Emigrant Aid Company.".
- catalog subject "Rice, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1852-1919.".
- catalog subject "Thayer, Eli, 1819-1899.".
- catalog title "Franklin Pierce Rice papers, 1844-1912.".
- catalog type "Clippings. aat".
- catalog type "Galley proofs. aat".
- catalog type "Notes. aat".
- catalog type "Transcripts. aat".
- catalog type "Visiting cards 19th century. aat".
- catalog type "Vital statistics records. aat".
- catalog type "text".