Charles Anderson Dana autograph letter signed to John Sullivan Dwight, [Brook Farm], [March 1846]

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Title:
Charles Anderson Dana autograph letter signed to John Sullivan Dwight, [Brook Farm], [March 1846]
Description:
The Brook Farmers will meet with the creditors and holders of loans on the community to ask for a reduction in their interest rates. If this is not possible, then they will have to declare bankruptcy. Quoted in The Idyll of Brook Farm, p. 43.
Author:
Dana, Charles A. (Charles Anderson), 1819-1897
Addressee:
Dwight, John Sullivan, 1813-1893
Name on Item:
Charles A. D.
Date:
[March 1846]
Format:
Manuscripts
Letters/Correspondence
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
MS E.4.1 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
John Sullivan Dwight correspondence regarding Brook Farm, 1840-1848
Subjects:
Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston > West Roxbury
Extent:
1 sheet (4 p.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/cz30q148m
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title supplied by cataloger.
Notes (date):
Date from item.
This date is inferred.
Notes (publications):
Letter quoted in: Haraszti, Zoltàn. "The Idyll of Brook Farm as Revealed by Unpublished Letters in the Boston Public Library." Trustees of the Boston Public Library, 1937, Boston.
Call #:
MS E.4.1 no. 57
Barcode:
39999085841391