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Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1811-11-29 - 1884-02-02

Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orator, and attorney.
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Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Letter : to Mr. [Ide?], n.y. Nov 18

 Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-3
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS cancelling a lecture due to illness.
Dates: n.y. Nov 18
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > PHILLIPS, WENDELL, 1811-1884

Letter : to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849 Oct 17

 Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning books on Haitian history given to Emerson by W. B. P. Hunt.

Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Phillips.
Dates: 1849 Oct 17
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > PHILLIPS, WENDELL, 1811-1884

Letter : to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1849 Oct 17

 Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-1
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS concerning books on Haitian history given to Emerson by W. B. P. Hunt. Accompanied by an engraved portrait of Phillips.
Dates: 1849 Oct 17
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > PHILLIPS, WENDELL, 1811-1884

Letter : to Theodore Dwight Weld, n.y. Feb 26

 Part of Collection — Box: 24, Folder: GROUP 453, F-2
Call Number: YCAL MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ALS regarding a letter from Mrs. [Harriet Beecher] Stowe asking Phillips to retract something he wrote concerning Lyman Beecher's role in Lane Seminary forbidding discussion of emancipation in 1834. Phillips asks Weld to confirm Stowe's account of events.
Dates: n.y. Feb 26
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Yale Collection of American Literature manuscript miscellany > P > PHILLIPS, WENDELL, 1811-1884

Notes, [1857], 1872

 Part of Collection — Box: 41, Folder: GROUP 1135, F-1
Call Number: GEN MSS MISC
Scope and Contents: ANS to "Dear Sir," [1857], concerning a lecture; and two ANS to Mrs. Matthew R. Dutton, 1872.
Dates: [1857], 1872
Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > P > PHILLIPS, WENDELL, 1811-1884