ROBINSON, William S.

"Warrington" Pen Portraits: A Collection of Personal and PoliticalReminiscences from 1848 to 1876, from the Writings of William S. Robinson.With memoir and extracts from diary and letters never before published.

Edited and published by Mrs. W.S. Robinson, Boston: 1877. First edition. Robinson (1818-1876) made his name as a journalist, writing for and editing many New England newspapers during a long career, especially known for his strong views in various reform movements and as a radical anti-slavery voice. "Charles Sumner, John A. Andrew, Henry Wilson, John G. Whittier, and other Massachusetts radicals" were among his friends (see DAB). The editor, Harriet Hanson Robinson (1825-1911), worked in the Lowell, Massachusetts, mills as a young woman and was also involved in various 19th-century reform movements, especially suffrage, helping organize the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts as an ally of Susan B. Anthony and publishing Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement (1881). "Her life was perhaps more valuable for what she experienced than for what she achieved" (NAW). The autograph letters and notes are from the following correspondents: Francis W. Bird, Seth Webb, Jr., Henry Wilson (1812-1875; Vice-President of the United States, United States Senator; abolitionist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), John H. Warland, Lucy Larcom (1824-1893; teacher, author, abolitionist cf. DAB), E.R. Hoar (1816- 1895; Attorney-General of the United States; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Edward L. Keyes (1843-1924; surgeon; cf. DAB), Samuel May (1797-1871; reformer; cf. DAB), George F. Hoar (1826-1904; United States Senator; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), S.G. Howe (1801-1876; philanthropist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Benjamin P. Shillaber (1814-1890; journalist; cf. DAB), Robert Carter (1819-1879; journalist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Richard Hildreth (1807-1865; journalist and abolitionist; cf. DAB), John D. Baldwin (1809-1883; journalist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), John Russell Young (1840-1899; journalist, the first to report the defeat at Bull Run; cf. DAB), Charles A. Dana (1819-1897; journalist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Benjamin F. Butler (1818-1893; Civil War general, United States Senator, governor of Massachusetts; 3 AlsS; cf. DAB), J.R. Hawley (1826-1905; journalist Civil War general, United States Senator; cf. DAB), John H. Clifford (1809-1876; governor of Massachusetts; cf. DAB), Elizur Wright (1804-1885; abolitionist; cf. DAB), Charles Allen (1797-1869; jurist and journalist; cf. Appleton's Cyclopedia), John G. Palfrey (1796- 1881; editor and historian; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Charles Hale (1831-1882; journalist; cf. DAB), Robert C. Pitman, Charles Sumner (1811-1874; United States Senator, abolitionist; 2 ALsS; cf. DAB), T.W. Higginson (1823-1911; Civil War solider, abolitionist, author; cf. DAB), J.M. Forbes (1813-1898; businessman; cf. DAB), Thomas Russell, George S. Boutwell (1818-1905; United States Senator; cf. DAB), James Freeman Clarke (1810-1888; clergyman and reformer; cf. DAB), Horace Greeley (1811-1872; journalist; 2 AlsS; cf. DAB), Gerritt Smith (1797-1874; abolitionist and reformer; cf. DAB), A.H. Bullock (1816-1882; governor of Massachusetts; cf. Appleton's Cyclopedia), Charles Francis Adams (1835-1915; historian; cf. DAB), Anson Burlingame (1820-1870; diplomat; cf. DAB), Lucy Stone (1818-1893; women's rights advocate; cf. DAB), H.L. Dawes (1816-1903; United States Senator; cf. DAB), J.Q.A. Griffin, Gilbert Haven (1821-1880; clergyman and abolitionist; cf. DAB), Wendell Phillips (1811-1884; reformer; cf. DAB), and George L. Stearns (1809-1867; abolitionist; cf. DAB). Bird, Webb, Warland, Pitman, Russell, and Griffin were all journalists who worked with Robinson on mid-19th century New England newspapers or periodicals and of whom he writes in his reminiscences. Four of the letters were written to Harriet Robinson, including the one from Lucy Larcom (12mo, 4-pages, declining an invitation to a wedding and discussing other personal matters: two others were written to third parties among the correspondents and forwarded with other letters to the Robinsons. The balance were addressed to Mr. Robinson and cover a broad range of personal and business issues, notes on meetings and current events, and musings on life, journalism, and the various reform movements all were involved with to one degree or another. The portraits and views, representing a wide range of 19th-century American historic events and sites and public figures, include engravings, some hand-colored, eight photographs (including ones of Charles Sumner, John Wilkes Booth, Charles A. Dana, General Butler, and Benjamin Shillaber), woodcuts, chromolithographs, cartoons, a gilt silhouette of Elijah Lovejoy, a small broadside advocating the election of General McClellan to the presidency in 1864, an engraved illustrated invitation to Horace Greeley's 71st birthday, and other plates, some inlaid to size. 8vo. One volume expanded to two and extra-illustrated with 142 portraits and 53 autograph letters to Robinson or his wife from prominent Americans of the period. 587 pp. New title pages, noted "Extra-Illustrated," for each volume. Brown morocco, gilt title on spine, gilt turn-ins, t.e.g., by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, "Extra Illustrated by Goodspeed, Boston." Joints worn or cracked.

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