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Daniel S. White to Maria E. Howe
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    • Creator: White, Daniel S., 1837-1912.
    • Date Created: 1861-08-12
    • Description: Topics include taking a Negro woman and her children as prisoners to keep them safe from their master, anticipation of a battle, false rumor that officers appropriated a box meant for the soldiers for it was delivered to the men.
    • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Daniel S. White Civil War letters


    Roswell Farnham to [Mary Farnham]
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      • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
      • Date Created: 1861-06-19
      • Description: Topics include his concern about anxiety at home after the Battle of Big Bethel; Farnham's desire to save his letters; domestic financial affairs; names of men in the hospital, and one death (Ph. Lougee); Maj. Worthen has a servant, a young black boy named Pompey Wind.
      • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence


      Roswell Farnham to Laura
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        • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
        • Date Created: 1861-06-29
        • Description: Topics include two Louisiana Zouaves who were brought in by Col. Hawkins, accounts of their desertion and capture, rumors of an advancing Confederate force, and the anticipation of an enemy attack that never occurs. .
        • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence


        Benjamin F. Butler to John Wolcott Phelps
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          • Creator: Butler, Benjamin F.
          • Date Created: 1861-07-16
          • Description: Topics include the summoning of Roys Nicholas Colbert and Charles Stepheny to Command General Benjamin F. Butler.
          • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence


          Roswell Farnham to Mary [Farnham]
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            • Creator: Farnham, Roswell, 1827-1903.
            • Date Created: 1861-08-14
            • Description: Topics include a brief description of Camp Phelps and the anticipation of arriving home, writes of cold rainy weather, of dining with Dr. Cummings, with Maj Worthen at the Revere House.
            • Parent Collections: Vermonters in the Civil War, Roswell Farnham Correspondence


            Ira A. Belknap to Lillian H. Olzendam
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              • Date Created: 1919-10-23
              • Description: Representative Belknap of Cavendish responds that he is not in favor of a special legislative session for ratification. [Response is written on bottom of original request from Olzendam]
              • Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection


              Charles H. Parmelee to Lillian H. Olzendam
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                • Date Created: 1919-10-24
                • Description: Representative Parmelee of Wilmington replies that he is sympathetic to equal suffrage but does not believe the Governor is warranted in calling a special session for that purpose.
                • Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection


                Marshall E. Calkins to Lillian H. Olzendam
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                  • Date Created: 1919-10-25
                  • Description: Representative Calkins of Westmore responds that he is not in favor of a special session without recompence for the legislators, and feels that "when the women pay a poll tax and take the freeman oath then they should have equal rights with man." [Written on back of blank petition form sent originally from Olzendam]
                  • Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection


                  Annette W. Parmelee to Ida H. Harper
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                    • Date Created: 1919-11-21
                    • Description: Parmelee writes Mrs. Ida Harper of New York City that she had just finished writing fifty pages for the suffrage history when she received Harper‚Äôs suggestions, and that she will do a rewrite after other obligations have been completed.
                    • Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection


                    Lillian H. Olzendam to Robert Haley
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                      • Date Created: 1919-12-16
                      • Description: Olzendam asks Robert Haley of Bennington to consider working with Washington County Senator Howland to speak with the Governor about calling a special session for ratification; his fellow townsman, John Spargo, has already agreed to be part of such a delegation, and the VESA would pay the cost of the visit.
                      • Parent Collections: Women's Suffrage in Vermont Collection