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 temperance movement. Accompanied by one silhouette drawing and one clipping, the "Swan Song of Parson Avery," by John G. Whittier.
Description:
Notebook written from both sides. Continuous pagination provided by cataloger. and Thomas Atkins (1797-1882), author.
Subject (Geographic):
Middlefield (Conn. : Town)--History
Subject (Name):
Atkins, Thomas,--1797-1822, United States.--Fugitive slave law (1793), and Whittier, John Greenleaf,--1807-1892
Subject (Topic):
Authors, American--19th century and Temperance--United States
