Josiah W. Leeds scrapbooks, 1872-1882

159 p., inside front cover inscribed "For private reference" "Volume I." Binding broken.Newspaper and periodical clippings [chiefly of his own writings from "Friends' Review" and other journals], includes "The monthly olivebranch," articles on Indigenous Americans, public libraries, prisons, temperance, William Penn, various tracts ("Come in and look! You will not beexpected to buy," "The presentment of the Grand Jury. October term, 1882"), issues of "The Freedman's Friend," poem "The `constellation'war­ship" (and list of where published), illustrations for his "smaller history," lists of books for the Emlen Institution, Institute for Colored Youth. Also material related to the publication and sale of his history books ­ "Leeds' United States History," and "Leeds smaller history of the United States."