# The Post family archive (1817 to 1918)
Author: Jane-Lyzell

[http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=4372](http://www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=4372).  
Nyligen släpt information:-))

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The Post family archive (1817 to 1918) contains more than 2000 letters, books, newspapers, and other material related to abolition, women’s suffrage, Spiritualism, temperance, Indians, childbirth, and more.

## Comment 1
Author: Jane-Lyzell

On Sept. 13, the University of Rochester will launch an online archive of manuscripts from the Post family, Rochesterians who were near the center of many of the national movements of the 1800s that helped define their city as one of American's most progressive.

[http://rbsc.library.rochester.edu/post](http://rbsc.library.rochester.edu/post)

## Comment 2
Author: Jane-Lyzell

Margarita Simon Guillory, an assistant professor of religion, also incorporates the collection into her class on Spiritualism. Reading and transcribing these private letters, she says, "humanized" historical figures for the undergraduates in her class. "It was amazing for them," she says. For example, letters from the Fox sisters, reveal how the famed and widely traveled Spiritualist mediums, were also teenaged girls and sometime lonely. "\[A\]h how I do wish that you were here," wrote Catherine Fox to Amy Post in this letter from 1850. "\[Y\]ou know we always loved you."

[http://rbsc.library.rochester.edu/items/show/447](http://rbsc.library.rochester.edu/items/show/447)

## Comment 3
Author: Jane-Lyzell

[http://www.nasm.org.au/library.html](http://www.nasm.org.au/library.html)  
en guldgruva med gamla böcker- håll tillgodo:-)