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Box 2

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Contains 22 Results:

Letter of Attorney for Henry Chevalier, 1834

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Certifying his appointment to purchase property in Ceres.

Dates: 1834

Lydia Clendenon/Chevalier account books, 1834-1844. 1846-1854

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Within leather wallet with small soft-cover

Dates: 1834-1844. 1846-1854

"Scrapbook Belonging to Jane Esther Chevalier" , 1851

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Collection of verse, removed from leather wallet with small soft-cover. Also undated poem in French and postmarked envelopes addressed to Mrs. H. J. Butler, Kansas, 1935

Dates: 1851

Draft letter against slavery, ca. 1842-1844

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Short handwritten draft addressed to Congress of the United States. It petitioned for the immediate abolishment of slavery as well as the interstate slave trade. In support of Jonathon Walker, abolitionist, arrested for attempting in 1844 to aid the escape of slaves in Florida. Included in partial booklet with pages removed, accounts and other miscellaneous notes. [Asahel Wright?]

Dates: ca. 1842-1844

Manuscript poem in French

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"Allies de Colombier/ 14 mars 1871"

Miscellaneous writings

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Copy of poem Fare Thee Well, handwritten copy of a hymn, fragment of letter, essay on Josephine, wife of Napoleon; fragment

Application of Henry Chevalier as postmaster, etc., 1888

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Salary adjustment, Glenn, Pennsylvania. Miscellaneous subscriptions, etc.

Dates: 1888