Correspondence, 1854-1855 [Folder 3]

160 continuous tone imagesPresbyterian minister in Elyria, Ohio, Detroit and Blissfield, Michigan; professor at Hamilton College and first president of University of Michigan.Correspondence between Monteith and other family members, 1817-1885, concerning current events, travels, temperance reform, slavery, and banking failures; annual report, Nov. 1818, of John Monteith to governor and judges of Michigan Territory concerning the University; diaries, 1808-1838, notes on his library, sermons and sermon outlines, speeches, notes on class lectures, account books, notebook, 1820, containing a Chippewa-English vocabulary; student notes, 1797-1798, taken by Alexander Monteith atDickinson College; and manuscript play, entitled, "The Raging Firelands" composed by John Monteith, Jr.; biographical sketch of Abigail Monteith written by Edwin Harris Monteith; correspondence of Monteith's wife Abigail, his daughter Sarah and his sons George, John Jr., Charles and Edwin; letters concerning George Monteith's service as an officer in the Fourth Michigan Infantry during the Civil War; and photographs