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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [TUBMAN, HARRIET] CLARKE, ANNA HUIDEKOPER, MRS. JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE. Two small diaries [1862 & 1868] kept by Anna H. Freeman Clarke and an Autograph Letter Signed from her baby sister Cora. [1864] 12mo, original full leather wallet format with folding flaps; letter, single 12mo leaf, folded to form four pages. Approximately 16 pages of writing in the first volume and 8 in the second. Vp, 1862-1868
These two manuscript pocket diaries were kept by Anna Huidekoper Clarke, wife of James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888). Loosely laid into the earlier one is a touching letter from her younger sister Cora who expresses her love and promises to do her lessons etc. Anna H. Clarke starts her 1862 diary by noting that two Confederate diplomats, James Mason and John Slidell, who had been intercepted on their way to England to negotiate for British aid, had been released to the British gunboat 'Rinaldo' at Provincetown, Massachusetts. The entire Clarke family was active in the cause of abolition, and the progress of the war. In the 1862 diary, Anna writes, "Jan. 3d. Hannah Stevenson came to Union Hall for a few minutes. She has been at Poolesville Hospital (Maryland) for weeks--the only woman there--she spoke with loving admiration of the young men whom she had nursed." Louisa May Alcott dedicated her 1863 book, "Hospital Sketches" to Stevenson who was an ardent abolitionist and the first woman from Massachusetts to serve in the Civil War. After the War she established schools for the Freedmen's Bureau. The entry for the 4th of January is intriguing: "[January 4] To Boston. Carry p[ac]k[a]ge to A[bolition] S[ociety]. Rooms for Moses-alias Harriet Tubman Union Hall until 2 PM." Could the "package" have been a smuggled runaway slave? In her 1868 diary entries, Anna H. Clarke makes several mentions of her work at the "Colored Home." Rachel Freeman Clarke was the founder in 1864 of the Home for Colored Aged Women in Boston. Anna records receiving money for the Home and writes about buying herbs and sheeting for the home.
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