- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3 linear feet (6 boxes, 4 v.)
- Uniform Title
- National anti-slavery standard.
- Access (note)
- Biography (note)
- Sydney Howard Gay (1814-1888) was an American journalist, author and abolitionist.
- Call Number
- MssCol 1130
- Author
Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888.
- Title
Sydney Howard Gay papers, ca. 1837-1886.
- Summary
Collection consists of writings, correspondence, notes, account books, and reports. Writings include manuscripts of the History of the United States and his biographies and other works. Correspondence, notes, reports, and account books are from the American Anti-Slavery Society and the Anti-Slavery Standard.
- 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