Found 3 collections related to Temperance

Collection contains correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Peter Smith dating from 1792-1837; papers of philanthropist and reformer Gerrit Smith, including family letters, circulars, political speeches on peace, temperance, abolition, women's suffrage, and the Irish cause dating from 1797-1874; correspondence of Elizabeth (Smith) Miller, 1843-1907; letters of Susan B. Anthony, 1869-1905; letters of Samuel Worcester Green containing reminiscences of Gerrit Smith; correspondence (1843-1895) of Charles Dudley Miller; Cochrane family papers (1825-1898); papers of high sheriff of Albany County, New York, Henry Ten Eyck, Jr.; and other papers of the Smith family of Peterboro, Madison County, New York less

In 1880 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) created a Dept. of Scientific Temperance Instruction, headed by Mary H. Hunt (1830-1906), to disseminate medical and social facts about alcohol. After Hunt's death, Cora F. Stoddard (1872-1936) continued the work through the Scientific Temperance Federation (STF) of Boston. Collection consists of correspondence and printed matter concerning temperance. Correspondence, 1883-1918, includes letters to Hunt and Stoddard relating to their activities on behalf of the WCTU and the STF. Also, one folder of printed temperance materials. less

John Malone (d. 1906) was an American actor. Collection consists of correspondence, writings and legal and family papers. Includes letters of theatrical people, mostly American, collected by Malone, together with some of Malone's personal correspondence and that of his family; Marcus Moriarty's autobiography of his theatrical career, his correspondence and a few contracts; several letters of non-theatrical contemporaries; materials on spiritualism and temperance; correspondence, 1928, of the Union Square Book Shop; and a genealogy of the Shelley family. less