FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Sydney Howard Gay papers
- Title
- Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886.
- Author
Collection information
Finding aid
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Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- 3 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 v.)
- Summary
- Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports.
- Uniform title
- National anti-slavery standard.
- Subject
- Call number
- MssCol 1130
- Language
- English
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Biography (note)
- Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist.
- Author
- Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888.
- Title
- Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886.
- Restricted access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist. He was an editor at the Anti-Slavery Standard, the New York Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, and the New York Evening Post. His other activities included lecturing for the American Anti-Slavery Society and writing biographies and the multi-volume History of the United States (with William Cullen Bryant).
- Finding aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Abolitionists.
- Historians.
- Added author
- Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
- American Anti-Slavery Society.
- Added title
- National anti-slavery standard.
- LCCN
- ms 69000867
- Research call number
- MssCol 1130