U.S. president, 1857–61. Letter, 19 January 1855, in which he briefly discusses the Crimean War, the peace conference at Vienna, and plans to seize Constantinople.
Propaganda Collection
Includes a poster, 21 x 15 in., printed and distributed by the Allen Bradley Co. of Milwaukee; and 3 handbills, 1 printed by the Student Peace Union of Chicago, the other 2 protesting Soviet activities in Lithuania. These materials were gathered as a result of N. Khrushchev's visit to Chicago in 1959.
Sonia Tolstoi (1844-1919)
Wife of the novelist and philosopher Leo Tolstoi. Letter, 1892, from the countess thanking the recipient for American sympathy to Russians suffering from the famine.
