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George E. Nitzsche Unitariana collection

Autograph letters and other papers of eminent Unitarians and liberal religious thinkers from the United States and abroad, 1778-2007, collected by George E. Nitzsche. The collection contains the autographs of U.S. presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Millard Fillmore, James A. Garfield, Thomas Jefferson, and William H. Taft; politicians John A. Andrew, Edward Everett, George Frisbie Hoar, John Davis Long, and Daniel Webster; authors Louisa May Alcott, William Cullen Bryant, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Harriet Martineau; reformers Susan B. Anthony, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Dorothea Lynde Dix, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton; scientists Nathaniel Bowditch and Charles Darwin; clergymen William Ellery Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Theodore Parker; judges Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), Lemuel Shaw, and Joseph Story; educator Horace Mann; editor Horace Greeley; and historians Francis Parkman and Jared Sparks. Included are original letters to George E. Nitzsche; correspondence and other papers related to the Unitarian Society of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.), of which Nitzsche was a member; printed matter about the individuals in the collection and Unitarianism; and books by Joseph Priestley and Charles William Wendte.

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