Notebook, 1846-1863

Description

Title: Notebook, 1846-1863
Creator: Atkins, Thomas, 1797-1882
Abstract: Notebook containing verse and notes for lyceum speeches by Atkins, along with receipts and drawings. Topics covered in speeches include Middlefield, Connecticut history and education, the fugitive slave law, and the temperance movement. Accompanied by one silhouette drawing and one clipping, the "Swan Song of Parson Avery," by John Greenleaf Whittier
Description: Thomas Atkins (1797-1882), author.
In English.
Provenance: Purchased from Carmen D. Valentino on the Elizabeth Wakeman Dwight Memorial Fund, 2008.
Extent: 1 v. (circa 134 p.) ; 20 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Drawings (visual works)
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): United States.
Middlefield (Conn. : Town)
Subject (Name): Atkins, Thomas, 1797-1822.
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
United States.
Subject (Topic): Authors, American
Lyceums
Temperance
History
Subjects: Atkins, Thomas, 1797-1822
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850)
Authors, American > 19th century
Lyceums > United States
Temperance > United States
Middlefield (Conn. : Town) > History
United States > 19th century

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas Atkins, Notebook. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.