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Bela Marsh was a Boston bookseller, stationer, and bookbinder; late in career, he specialized in the publication of spiritual and reform books. Collection comprises a letter by Bela Marsh to Friend Hacker (1865 December 8) requesting newspaper notices for his publications "Is there a Devil?" and "Kiss for a Blow," including wholesale and retail prices.

Caroline Crane Marsh was a poet, author and advocate for women’s rights. Collection comprises a letter Caroline Crane Marsh wrote to Mrs. Botta (1872 May 24). Topics in the letter include the illness and death of her beloved niece, Ellen, the publication of her husband's confidential dispatches and his resulting illness, as well as the support her husband has had from officials within the Italian government following the publication crisis.

Collection comprises a letter of recommendation Marsh wrote (1845 October 16) to Rev. Bennett Tylor on behalf of Nelson Scott, who was seeking to continue his studies in the ministry.

Harriet Martineau was a British social theorist and Whig writer, often cited as the first female sociologist. Collection comprises 21 letters written by Harriet Martineau from Ambleside between 1868 and 1876, primarily to Mr. (John?) Robinson, with one letter to Prime Minister Gladstone regarding her rejection of a pension (1873 June 3). A few letters are incomplete. In addition, there are four undated fragments of letters. Topics include the republishing of her biographical sketches originally published in the Daily Mail; scandals of the period, particularly the Harriet Beecher Stowe-Lady Byron scandal and the John Stuart Mill and Harriet Taylor scandal, along with Martineau's associated writings; re-publication of Eastern Life: Present & Past and her holding of copyright; the 2nd edition of Traditions of Palestine; and the autobiography of Brougham and its errors about Martineau and her family, which she wishes corrected in the Daily News. Other topics include liberal politics, religion, her declining health and need of a companion and servants, her rejection of a pension, and planned meetings with Robinson, as well as condolences sent on the death of his son. There is an additional letter written on behalf of Martineau by Miss Goodwin to an unidentified addressee, regarding politics and Martineau's health (1873 February 20).

Newspaper editor from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Collection consists primarily of correspondence to and from John Sanford Martin, a newspaper editor from Winston-Salem, N.C. Letters from the 1930s to the 1940s provide information on economic and social problems in North Carolina from a number of committees on which Martin served. After 1940 there is much material on racial problems in Winston-Salem, and throughout North Carolina and the South. The correspondence from this period also reflects Martin's concern for the improvement of public education in North Carolina and his service on the North Carolina State Board of Education. Other papers relate to state and national politics, the New Deal, the Democratic Party, and the Baptist church. There are also some photographs in the collection. Significant correspondents include Josiah William Bailey, Joseph Melville Broughton, Josephus Daniels, Robert Lee Doughton, Drew Pearson, Strom Thurmond, and William Allen White.

James "Spider" Martin was an Alabama photojournalist known for his work documenting the American Civil Rights Movement. Collection comprises 44 black-and-white photographs, mostly 8x10 or 11x14 inches, documenting the March 1965 Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches. Subjects include civil rights leaders and march participants Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, James Bevel, Coretta Scott King, John Lewis, Bob Mants, Amelia Boynton Robinson, and Hosea Williams, as well as marchers, protesters, counter protesters with signs and Confederate flags, local police, and federal troops. Locations include the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma; downtown Selma; the Edmund Pettus Bridge (site of the "Bloody Sunday" violence against protesters on March 7, 1965); Highway 80; downtown Montgomery; and the State Capitol grounds in Montgomery. Three related images are of Alabama governor George C. Wallace speaking during the 1968 U.S. presidential campaign. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Lucy Randolph Mason (1882-1959) was a white suffragist and labor activist who served for over fourteen years as the Public Relations Representative for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the South. Collection contains correspondence, writings, speeches, and notes, papers related to Mason's labor activism and other interests, and clippings. Collection material largely documents Mason's work for the CIO, especially how she worked to positively change public attitudes towards organized labor, her local interventions on behalf of labor organizers and striking workers, and the relationship between Christianity and labor unions.

Circular letter, signed, soliciting contributions for the proposed institution from all towns within the Commonwealth. This examplar is addressed to the town of Leicester and signed by Thomas H. Perkins, Daniel Sargent, Joseph May, Josiah Quincy, Tristram Barnard and Richard Sullivan.

Massarik was a member of the Bund Juedischer Frontsoldaten Österreichs, in Vienna, Austria. Collection comprises Massarik's membership booklet, written in German, with monthly activity stamps between 1935-1937. Founded in 1932, the Austrian association of Jewish frontline fighters (Bund Juedischer Frontsoldaten O¨sterreichs) was founded to combat antisemitism, including reminders of the part played by Jewish soldiers in World War I, and had about 20,000 members.