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Letter New York, to H.B. Hurst i.e. Hirst, Philadelphia, 1851 June 12

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Open book Letter New York, to H.B. Hurst i.e. Hirst, Philadelphia, 1851 June 12

Title Letter New York, to H.B. Hurst i.e. Hirst, Philadelphia, 1851 June 12

Creator Copway, George, 1818-1863?

Date 1851

Subjects American newspapers, Indian newspapers, Indians of North America

Description Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)
Formerly known as Ayer MS 185a.
Text on p. [1]-[3]
For more information, consult the Special Collections Info. File.

Summary June 12, 1851, letter from Copway to Henry Beck Hirst, a Philadelphia poet, outlining plans to publish Copway's American Indian, a weekly newspaper of Indian advocacy, and asking Hirst to contribute his work and submit a letter of support for the first issue. Copway describes his paper as "a channel of information for the American people and to the Indian race of all such things as will tend to give them a better idea of each other" and lists other contributors, including Prescott Everett, H. R. Schoolcraft, William Gilmore Simms, Lewis Henry Morgan, James Fennimore Cooper, Washington Irving, and Maj. John Richardson. He also specifies the paper's intended circulation (3,000), typeface, and paper.

Biographical/Historical Note Ojibway chief, Methodist missionary, and author. Born in 1818 in Ontario and given the Indian name Kah-Ge-Ga-Gah-Bowh, Copway was taught to read by an English missionary and converted to Methodism in 1830. From 1834 until his death, Copway was either engaged in missionary work among his people in Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois, or in lecturing, writing, and raising funds for the Indian cause. Copway wrote several books on the Indians, translated the gospel of Luke into Ojibway, and proposed and argued for a new Indian territory for the tribes of the Old Northwest. A journalist for a period in New York City, Copway published a newspaper, Copway's American Indian, from July 10 to Sept. 17, 1851, when insufficient funds caused its demise. Copway is presumed to have died in Michigan in 1863.

Extent 1 item (1 folded sheet (4 p.)) ; 26 cm

Format Correspondence

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection, Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection

Link to Catalog View record

Call Number Ayer MS 3051

BibID 128604

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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