{"value"=>"<p>James Miller McKim's correspondence documents his early career as a minister, his work as an abolitionist and his role as a founder of The Nation. Letters from family are primarily from his brother John McKim and from his son, Charles Follen McKim, while he was a student at Lawrence Scientific School, Harvard University and cole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Letters from friends and associates detail McKim's administrative roles within the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Freedman's Union Commission, including letters from abolitionists such as Samuel Joseph May, James and Lucretia Mott, Passmore Williamson, Henry B. Stanton and William Still. McKim toured extensively for his abolitionist work and correspondence reflects these travels. Included is correspondence with European abolitionists, such as Mary Estlin, George Thompson and James Haughton, from McKim's tour of Ireland, England and Scotland in 1853. Also included are letters McKim wrote to his wife while visiting the society of free blacks living in the Sea Islands of South Carolina in 1862 and a letter by order of Ulysses S. Grant, signed by Theodore S. Bowers, granting McKim permission to travel to the Southern states under military protection. There are copies of letters from Mary Brown to her husband, John Brown to the Governor Wise of Virginia, with replies from both men, shortly before John Brown's execution as well as a letter from Mary Brown to McKim thanking him for accompanying her in retrieving her husband's body from Harper's Ferry. Correspondence with E.L. Godkin, Henry Villard and various stockholders detail his involvement as a founder of The Nation.</p>"}