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Compiled by Frank Gagliardi, Associate Library Director
text icon Letters to Elihu Burritt:

To: Written At: Pages: Date: Description:
Noah Webster (copy) New Haven 1 Apr. 26, l834 Provides information on Samuel Lee, Professor of Arabic at Cambridge.
Elizabeth Burritt New Britain 3 Apr. l6, [l837?] Writes on religion and family affairs.
Elizabeth Burritt New Britain 4 Sep. 27, l838 Writes on religion, Elijah's death, family and friends.
Elizabeth Burritt New Britain 2 Feb. 22, [l84l?] Exhorts Elihu to Christian service.
Joseph Sturge Birmingham 3 Mar. 3, l846 Writes about the East Indian war and peace issues.
Baron de Reedtz (copy) Copenhagen l Oct. 29, l850 Thanks him for his efforts in promoting peace. The Danish government is considering Burritt's and the German's proposals.
Joshua P. Blanchard (extract of Correspondence) Boston? l Sep. 14, l85l Offers plan for reviving the League of Universal Brotherhood.
Joshua P. Blanchard Boston? 3 Oct. 26, 185l Criticizes Burritt for rejecting his plan and misunderstanding his intentions.
Edmund Fry London 3 Jul. 16, 1856 Instructions for sending a parcel.
Noah Porter Farmington 2 Jul. 25. 1857 Agrees with Burritt's view on emancipation. Unable to attend the convention.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Cambridge 4 Oct. 2, 1865 Acknowledgement and comments on Burritt's Walk From London to Lands End and back, (1865).
Henry Martin Kent, England 4 Oct. 22, 1871 Thanks him for his pamphlet, The Eastern and Western Questions of Europe. Asks Burritt to approach Harriet Beecher Stowe about writing a book.
Georgina Coluade Paris 4 n.d. Thanks Burritt for two issues of the Nonconformist. Praises his peace work.


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