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COLLECTION Identifier: A/S892

Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1854-1890

Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1854-1890. Digital

Scope and Contents

Letters from Harriet Beecher Stowe to various correspondents, including concerns, comments, and questions related to edits in her book proofs; and a sympathy letter to a friend whose father had died. Also includes letters to and from Stowe relating to politics and slavery, possibly referring to Senator Stephen A. Douglas's Kansas–Nebraska Act of 1854 and the subsequent repeal of the Missouri Compromise.