American autograph album of John Griffith (Gohebydd)

This material is held atNational Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru

Reference
- GB 210 NLW MS 24173B.
Alternative Id.
Dates of Creation
- 1866-1868 (mostly 1866-1867)
Name of Creator
- Griffith, John, 1821-1877
  Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881
  Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885
  Hendricks, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrews), 1819-1885
  Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885
  Foster, Lafayette S. (Lafayette Sabine), 1806-1880
  Wade, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1800-1878
  Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
  Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884
  Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932
  Murdoch, James Edward, 1811-1893
  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Language of Material
- English English.
Physical Description
- ii, 89 ff. (text mostly on rectos; blank from f. 49 verso) ; 185 x 120 mm.
  Leather over boards; gold tooling on spine and blind fillets and tooling on covers; 'Autographs' (in gold on front cover and blind on back cover); gilt page edges; 'Mr John Griffith, [Th]e "Baner ac Amserau Cymru" Newspa[per]' (business card pasted inside front cover); 'John Griffith, The "Baner Cymru" - London - England' (pencil on f. i).
Location
- ARCH/MSS (GB0210)

Scope and Content

Autograph album, 1866-1868, belonging to the journalist John Griffith (Gohebydd), compiled during visits to Reconstruction Era America to report for Baner ac Amserau Cymru. The album contains eighty-four signatures and inscriptions, mainly by Senators and other senior politicians and social reformers (ff. 3-49).
The signatories include the future Presidents James A. Garfield (f. 32) and U[lysses] S. Grant (f. 37), future Vice-Presidents Tho[mas] A. Hendricks (f. 7) and Schuyler Colfax (f. 26), Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton (f. 36), presidents pro-tem of the Senate L[a] F[ayette] S. Foster (f. 19) and B[enjamin] F. Wade (f. 22), the abolitionists and social reformers Frederick Douglass (f. 38), Wendell Phillips (f. 45) and Anna E. Dickinson (f. 46), the actor James E. Murdoch (f. 41) and the writer R[alph] Waldo Emerson (f. 43). A few autographs are of Welshmen (ff. 44, 49).

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