Politics

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Pamphlets "Ten Million Pair of Shoes for Suffering Russia" about Russia and its needs during World War I and "Speech by Prof. G. Lomonosoff on Mass meeting at Chicago on February 17th, 1918. (translated from Russian)."

Scope and Contents The materials consist of a 10-page diatribe written by J. Sterling Morton against politician William Jennings Bryan and Bryan’s support of the economic policy of free silver in 1896, as well as a one page typed letter from Morton dated April 6, 1896, marked "personal" to Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Charles S. Hamlin, attacking him and United States Senator John Sherman on the administration's official stance on "what caused the panic of 1896." A drop in silver reserves and concerns...

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The collection consists of photographs of John Adams Jr. as part of the Nebraska Legislature and Kappa Alpha Psi, certificates of election to the legislature and qualifications as an attorney, photographs and an obituary of his wife Constance Bell Singleton Adams, and a newspaper clipping with cartoons of John Adams Jr. with the senators from Nebraska.

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The collection consists of Zenkl's papers and includes correspondence, published and unpublished writings, and biographical information. Of particular interest are a memorandum signed by various Eastern European political exiles and Zenkl's unpublished memoirs.

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One letter from William Jay and abolitionist Jabez Delano Hammond to an unknown correspondent dated December 8, 1851, New York. The author writes about the death of their daughter and discusses the politics of slavery, Lajos Kossuth, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.

Also included is a transcription of the letter and biographical research on Jabez Delano Hammond.

Scope and Contents William Jennings Bryan, Collected Materials contains correspondence and photographs written by or about William Jennings Bryan from 1904-1915. William Jennings Bryan letter with envelope, 1904, June 9, to Hon. Henry O. Kent of Lancaster, New Hampshire, regarding political platforms in New Hampshire and Nebraska. Letter, William Jennings Bryan to daughter Ruth [?], circa 1905, Nov. 3 One handwritten letter from Bryan written to his daughter Ruth [?] on Nov. 3, [1905?],...