Bartolomeo Vanzetti printed letter to [Elizabeth] Glendower Evans, [Charlestown], 22 July 1921
Description:
Referring to "the teaching" of [Leo] Tolstoy, Saint Francis and Dante [Alighieri], to "the example" of Cincinnatus and [Giuseppe] Garibaldi, and to his desire to read the writings of [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow, [Thomas] Paine, Benjamin Franklin and [Thomas] Jefferson. Together with typed copy of Vanzetti's Italian version, with an added note. [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow, [Thomas] Paine, Benjamin Franklin and [Thomas] Jefferson.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Together with typed copy of Vanzetti's Italian version, with an added note.
Notes (acquisition):
The Aldino Felicani Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee Records were donated to the Boston Public Library by Aneto and Arthur Felicani, March 1979.
Notes (date):
Date from item or from supporting materials.
Notes (publications):
Printed copy edited by Marion D. Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson, and used for publication.
Published in Elizabeth Glendower Evans' "Outstanding Features of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case", (N.Y., 1924), pp. 30-31, and in The Letters of Sacco and Vanzetti, edited by Marion D. Frankfurter and Gardner Jackson (N.Y., 1928), pp. 81-83.