Volume 36

Scope and Content note This volume includes newspaper clippings and entries about the beginning of the Civil War and slavery. Elfreth describes the city of Philadelphia's reaction to the early days of the civial war, including crowds gathering in the streets, and notes "military companies being formed and marching about the streets." Additional materials in this volume include correspondence, and two prints; "Which is the Mother" engraved by A.H. Ritchie, and "Tower Rock on the Mississippi" by Smillie and...