Mar 31, 2011 - Sale 2241

Sale 2241 - Lot 243

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(PHILOSOPHY.) Wakeman, Thaddeus B. Archive of his correspondence and manuscripts. 3 Autograph Letters Signed * Autograph Manuscript titled "Draft Resolutions Read by Me at Union Meeting, Washington Hall," New York, November 1865 * 38 letters received * 11 printed pamphlets, circular letters, and leaflets * and related papers. Most items in strong condition. Vp, 1865-1900
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Thaddeus Burr Wakeman (1834-1913) was a philosopher, activist, and lawyer from New York City. Most of this small archive relates to his involvement in the related positivist, liberal, and secularist movements.
Inventory of letters received:
Baldwin, Joseph O. 11 May 1883
Blau, W.M. 10 November 1885
Brehm, Mrs. S.M. 1 May 1888

Burnham, N.D. 8 May 1889
Chainey, George. Unitarian clergyman of Boston. 12 October 1881; 5 December 1881; 28 January 1882 (telegram)
Carus, Paul. 14 August 1893
Child, John M. 20 February 1888
Denning, E.J. & Co. 5 December 1887
French, W. Atwood. 13 November 1888
Gaul, Charles F. 20 December 1887
Gazey, John. 4 January 1895
Green, Horace L. of Freethinkers Magazine. 22 September "E.M. 288"
Grover, Alonzo J. of Chicago. 29 December 1880
Hart, Codmi(?), 19 August 1865
Haynes(?), Emma. nd
Leverson(?), John R. 23 December 1899
Mills, John G. 12 April 1882
Montgomery, Edmund of Hempstead, TX, philosopher. 14 March 1889
Munro, P.S.M. 23 April 1883 and 31 October 1883
Norton, Sarah F. 28 December nd

Palmer, C.A. 20 December nd
Putnam, Samuel P. 8 September 1885
Smith, Artemus J. 6 June 1898
St. German, B. 3 December 1893
Sutphen, John N. 27 December E.M. 298 [1898]
Waggoner, Marshall O. 18 January 1883
Walton, E.A. 26 February 1884
Whipple, J.F.(?) 27 May 1865
Wright, Walter C. 3 March 1884
Unidentified: 6 letters, 1886-1900 and nd
Letters sent:
To S.S. Carvalho of the N.Y. World, threatening a lawsuit, 25 January 1895
To "friend Stevens," re secular/liberal matters, 22 August E.M. 288
To Mssrs. Sowerby & Searing, re legal business, 28 May 1885
Incomplete fragment, 2 pages, undated

"Draft Resolutions read by me at Union Meeting, Washington Hall." Autograph Manuscript by Wakeman, New York, 4 November 1865
Partial Autograph Manuscript: 3 pages (115-117) from a longer essay on sociology, undated
11 printed pamphlets, schedules and circular letters, mostly re philosophy
4 receipted bills
8 addressed envelopes
3 letters to grandson Wakeman Hartley, 1934-36.