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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Elizur Wright papers, 1793-1935 (bulk 1830-1885)</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Wright, Elizur</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1804-1885</namePart>
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  <language>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten transcripts of writings, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wright's involvement in the antislavery movement and to his work as an actuary and as an author and translator.  Documents his work with organizations including the American Anti-Slavery Society and its publication The Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and its publication The Massachusetts Abolitionist, and the National Liberal League.  Subjects include abolition, actuarial science, antimasonry, conservation, free thought, 19th century politics, reform movements, religion, temperance, the tobacco habit, and family affairs.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Wright family members and Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Louisa May Alcott, May Alcott, De Robigne Mortimer Bennett, Catherine H. Birney, James Gillespie Birney, William Birney, Henry Browne Blackwell, William Henry Burleigh, Salmon P. Chase, Charles A. Dana, Joshua N. Danforth, William Lloyd Garrison, Horace Greeley, Beriah Green, Sallie Holley, Robert Green Ingersoll, Simeon Smith Jocelyn, Amos A. Phelps, Wendell Phillips, Albert L. Rawson, Gerrit Smith, Henry B. Stanton, Lewis Tappan, Theodore Dwight Weld, and John Greenleaf Whittier.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Reformer, publisher, and actuary.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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      <namePart>Abbot, Francis Ellingwood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1836-1903</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Alcott, Louisa May</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1832-1888</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Alcott, May</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1840-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Bennett, De Robigne Mortimer</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1882</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Birney, Catherine H</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Birney, James Gillespie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1857</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Birney, William</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1907</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blackwell, Henry Browne</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1909</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Burleigh, William Henry</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1812-1871</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1808-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1897</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Danforth, Joshua N. (Joshua Noble)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1798-1861</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garrison, William Lloyd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1879</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Greeley, Horace</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1872</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Green, Beriah</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1795-1874</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Holley, Sallie</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1893</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Ingersoll, Robert Green</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1833-1899</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Jocelyn, Simeon Smith</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1799-1879</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Phelps, Amos A. (Amos Augustus)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1847</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Phillips, Wendell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1829-1902</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Smith, Gerrit</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1797-1874</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1887</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Tappan, Lewis</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1788-1873</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Weld, Theodore Dwight</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1803-1895</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Whittier, John Greenleaf</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1807-1892</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Wright family</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>Wright family</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="corporate">
      <namePart>American Anti-Slavery Society.</namePart>
    </name>
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      <namePart>Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society.</namePart>
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      <title>Massachusetts abolitionist</title>
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      <title>Quarterly anti-slavery magazine</title>
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    <topic>Antislavery movements</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Freemasonry</topic>
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    <topic>Insurance</topic>
    <topic>Mathematics</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Slavery</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Social problems</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>Politics and government</topic>
    <temporal>19th century</temporal>
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    <occupation>Actuaries</occupation>
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    <occupation>Publishers</occupation>
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  <subject authority="itoamc">
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