1875 - 1903 Album - SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JOSEPH BRADLEY Letter - UNITARIAN REVS
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| Reference Number: Avaluer:874 | Original/Facsimile: Original |
| Material: Paper | Date of Publication: 1875 |
| Type: Handwritten Manuscript |
1875-1903 Album - SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JOSEPH BRADLEY Letter - UNITARIAN REVS
WONDERFUL SMALL LEATHERBOUND GILDED AUTOGRAPH ALBUM IMPORTANT AMERICANALAID-IN 1875 LETTER FROM SITTING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JAMES P. BRADLEYOTHER CLIPPED AUTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST REVERENDSAUTOGRAPH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S DAUGHTER ELLEN DESCRIPTION: Small gilded leather and embossed leather album - 5" x 8". Chipping to spine ends and loosening to h...inges.Unlined pages. Album appears to have been compiled by a resident of Concord, Ma. although unnamed. Letter laid-in handwritten by Supreme Court Justice Bradley, sitting Justice. The letter unfolded, is handwritten on 3 sides with a full signature. The content regards the annotation of law digests.
Joseph Philo Bradley (1813-1892) was an American jurist best known for his service on the United States Supreme Court, and on the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election. Ulysses S. Grant appointed Bradley to the Supreme Court in 1870. Appointed by President Grant following the end of the civil war, Bradley favored a conservative interpretation of the Constitution, particularly with respect to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments passed by Congress to end slavery and extend citizenship to African Americans.
The album is only partially used, with about 12 pages filled with clipped entries and written-in entries. Most autographs identified are those by important New England Unitarian Universalists including:William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).Rev. Dr. James De Normandie (1836-1924) was a Unitarian Universalist Minister from the First Church in Roxbury in Boston, MA.Rev. Samuel June Barrows (1845–1909) was an American Unitarian Universalist clergyman and reformer. He was a pastor in Dorchester, Mass., and later edited (1880–96) the Christian Register, a Unitarian weekly. In 1895 he was appointed by President Cleveland to represent the United States on the International Prison Commission. The following year he was elected to Congress, where he worked for prison and civil service reform.
Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) was the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and an important member of the Concord Massachusetts intellectual community.
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WONDERFUL SMALL LEATHERBOUND GILDED AUTOGRAPH ALBUM IMPORTANT AMERICANALAID-IN 1875 LETTER FROM SITTING SUPREME COURT JUSTICE JAMES P. BRADLEYOTHER CLIPPED AUTOGRAPHS OF IMPORTANT UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST REVERENDSAUTOGRAPH OF RALPH WALDO EMERSON'S DAUGHTER ELLEN DESCRIPTION: Small gilded leather and embossed leather album - 5" x 8". Chipping to spine ends and loosening to h...inges.Unlined pages. Album appears to have been compiled by a resident of Concord, Ma. although unnamed. Letter laid-in handwritten by Supreme Court Justice Bradley, sitting Justice. The letter unfolded, is handwritten on 3 sides with a full signature. The content regards the annotation of law digests.
Joseph Philo Bradley (1813-1892) was an American jurist best known for his service on the United States Supreme Court, and on the Electoral Commission that decided the disputed 1876 presidential election. Ulysses S. Grant appointed Bradley to the Supreme Court in 1870. Appointed by President Grant following the end of the civil war, Bradley favored a conservative interpretation of the Constitution, particularly with respect to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments passed by Congress to end slavery and extend citizenship to African Americans.
The album is only partially used, with about 12 pages filled with clipped entries and written-in entries. Most autographs identified are those by important New England Unitarian Universalists including:William Rounseville Alger (1822-1905) was a Unitarian minister and author whose writings were important to the development of comparative religious studies. His works included The Poetry of the East (1856) and A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life (1860).Rev. Dr. James De Normandie (1836-1924) was a Unitarian Universalist Minister from the First Church in Roxbury in Boston, MA.Rev. Samuel June Barrows (1845–1909) was an American Unitarian Universalist clergyman and reformer. He was a pastor in Dorchester, Mass., and later edited (1880–96) the Christian Register, a Unitarian weekly. In 1895 he was appointed by President Cleveland to represent the United States on the International Prison Commission. The following year he was elected to Congress, where he worked for prison and civil service reform.
Ellen Tucker Emerson (1839-1909) was the daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and an important member of the Concord Massachusetts intellectual community.
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