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[Family Correspondence] Over 70 Items, mostly letters of Charles A. Upham (1822-94), his wife Eliza Ann Kelton (1828-99), daughter E. Annie Upham, son Charles J. and other family. Uphams Corner, a commercial center in Dorchester in Boston, was founded by the family which had a multi-generational residence there. Includes about 52 letters, approx. 23 additional pieces and 43 stamped envelopes. Generally 12mo/8vo, typically multiple pages, folds, usual wear. A summer trip to Buckfield, Me., is described in a letter from Annie (Aug. 15, 1868): “Most all the people around here are farmers except in the village where there are a number of mills, factories, and stores. There are also two churches and a third is being erected…” (p2). Notice of E.V. Ryder, journalist and poet, is written after his death, in a letter sent from Santa Barbara, Nov. 24, 1886. “...His poems which were much admired were contributed principally to the New York Sun…” and elsewhere. Labor unrest at the time of the Pullman Strike is described by Cornelia R. Gates, who operated the “Floral Nursery” in Anaheim, CA (July 19, 1894, [9]pp). “It seems to me dreadful that the working people are so misguided. I fear this will only make times harder for them… do not believe in either strikes or labor unions, yet here nearly every one sympathizes with the strikers.” (p1). Included is “The Old Burying Ground Dorchester,” [c. 1875], 4-page essay: “...Here are found the graves of four slaves buried at the time slavery was tolerated in Massachusetts, and here too some of the victims of the Great Civil War which put an end to that great evil, Slavery...” (p4).
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