Collection number: MC 12
Size: 1 box
(0.20 cu.ft.)
About James Burns Wallace and George Kimball
James Burns Wallace (1813-1853) was born in Salem, N.H. He eventually settled in Canaan, N.H., where he worked as a printer, merchant, teacher, and soldier. He described himself as a “reformist, an abolitionist, a pure Radical.” George Kimball (1787-1858) was an attorney, a postmaster, and an antislavery advocate from Canaan, N.H. With others, he founded a school for higher learning in the town - Noyes Academy - in 1834 and persuaded the trustees and patrons to admit pupils without regard to color. However, after a number of black students had been admitted, there was an uprising by members of the adjacent communities who forcibly removed them from the town and then dismantled the building.
About the Wallace-Kimball papers
The collection contains 42 letters, 18 of them to George Kimball and 17 written by James Burns Wallace. Most of Wallace’s letters are addressed to his brother, William A. Wallace. These concern Kimball’s school, Wallace’s employment as a printer, and business conditions during the period. There are also letters from other members of the Wallace family and manuscripts of two articles written by James B. Wallace. The letters written to Kimball, from abolitionists Samuel H. Cox, David Child and N.P. Rogers, an attorney and editor of the Herald of Freedom, an antislavery newspaper published in Concord, concern legal matters and pledge support for Kimball’s school corresponded with Kimball.
Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
This collection is open.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Wallace-Kimball Papers, 1827-1842, MC 12, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA.
Acquisitions Information
Purchase, Manuscript Co. of Springfield, 1982 (Accession number: 821)
Collection Contents
| Box 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Box 1, Folder 1 | Letters to George Kimball, from Moody Kent (3) and N.P. Rogers (2), 1827 | |
| Box 1, Folder 2 | Letters to George Kimball, from Josiah Forsyth (?) (1), George Kent (2), Francis N. Fisk (1), 1828 | |
| Box 1, Folder 3 | Letters to George Kimball, one each from Stephen Ambrose and N.P. Rogers, 1829 | |
| Box 1, Folder 4 | Letters to George Kimball, one each from N. P. Rogers and William Haynes, 1830 | |
| Box 1, Folder 5 | Letters to George Kimball, one each from Samuel H. Cox and Amos A. Brewster, 1834-1835 | |
| Box 1, Folder 6 | Letters from N.P. Rogers (3), undated | |
| Box 1, Folder 7 | Letters from James B. Wallace, 1827 | |
| Box 1, Folder 8 | Letters from James B. Wallace, 1832-1834 | |
| Box 1, Folder 9 | Letters from James B. Wallace, 1835-1836 | |
| Box 1, Folder 10 | Letters from James B. Wallace, 1837-1840 | |
| Box 1, Folder 11 | Wallace family correspondence, 7 items, undated | |
| Box 1, Folder 12 | Manuscript: "Canaan” by James Burns Wallace, 1830s | |
| Box 1, Folder 13 | Manuscript: “Killing Time” by James Burns Wallace, 1830s | |
