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Mary Alice Lincoln wrote to multiple recipients in a search to obtain books and monographs related to African American suffrage while she was a student at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). This is a collection of four responses she received from Little, Brown, & Company; American Publishing Co.; the Boston Public Library; and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The letter from the American Publishing Company (Hartford, Connecticut) contains enclosures of printed, illustrated folio advertising circulars/prospectuses for Joseph T. Wilson's A History of the Black Phalanx, John M. Langston's From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, and John H. Paynter's Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam.
Mary Alice Lincoln wrote to multiple recipients in a search to obtain books and monographs related to African American suffrage while she was a student at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). This is a collection of four responses she received from Little, Brown, & Company; American Publishing Co.; the Boston Public Library; and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The letter from the American Publishing Company (Hartford, Connecticut) contains enclosures of printed, illustrated folio advertising circulars/prospectuses for Joseph T. Wilson's A History of the Black Phalanx, John M. Langston's From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, and John H. Paynter's Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam.
1903 May 4 . Little, Brown, & Company TLS to M[ary] A. Lincoln; Boston, Massachusetts.
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Box 68, Small Collections, Folder 22
Edward L. Pierce's Enfranchisement and Citizenship is out of print and they cannot supply a copy. The company currently has no stock specifically on Black suffrage, but recommends Booker T. Washington's Up from Slavery (cost $1.65).
1903 May 5 . American Publishing Co. TLS to M[ary] A. Lincoln; Hartford, Connecticut.
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Box 68, Small Collections
They do not have Reilly's Negro Suffrage in stock [Jerome R. Riley's The Philosophy of Negro Suffrage (1895)]; suggests that she write to Reilly [i.e. Riley] in Washington, D.C. On printed, illustrated company stationery. Enclosing printed, illustrated advertising circulars for Joseph T. Wilson'sA History of the Black Phalanx, John M. Langston'sFrom the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, and John H. Paynter's Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam.
1903 May 16 . Horace G. Wadlin ANS to M[ary] A. Lincoln; Boston, Massachusetts.
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Box 68, Small Collections
Mentioning that an enclosure answers her question [enclosure not present]. On printed, illustrated The Public Library of the City of Boston stationery.
1903 May 25 . American Academy of Political and Social Sciences TLS to M[ary] A. Lincoln; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1 page
Box 68, Small Collections
The Academy has not published anything directly on Black suffrage but recommends W. E. B. Du Bois' Study of the Negro Problems and The Relation of the Negroes to the Whites in the South, Hilary A. Herbert's The Race Problem at the South, and George T. Winston's The Relation of Whites to the Negroes.