William Channing Gannett Papers

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Jane Addams to Mary Thorn Lewis Gannett, January 26, 1902

Addams apologizes that she cannot stay with Gannett, as she has already accepted an invitation to stay elsewhere.

Description

Correspondence and other papers of William Channing Gannett (b.1840, d.1923), Unitarian minister in St. Paul, Minn. (1877-1883) and Rochester, N. Y. (1889-1908). Correspondence to and from Mr. Gannett includes letters from Jane Addams, Abigail May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, Samuel Longfellow, Elihu Root, Alphonso and William Howard Taft, Booker T. Washington, Frank Lloyd Wright and many Unitarian leaders of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Also, letters relating to the Western Unitarian Controversy, the education of the freedmen at Port Royal, the temperance crusade, Unity magazine, Unitarian church organization and membership, and to the editing of Unity Hymns and Chorals by Mr. Gannett and Frederick L. Hosmer. About 400 letters, dated 1875-1912, were added to the collection by Charles H. Lyttle and relate to the Western Unitarian Controversy.

Source

Finding aid: http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/889

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William Channing Gannett Papers