MC 12
1 Hollinger box
About James Burns Wallace:
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, an uprising from the adjacent communities forcibly removed them from the town and dismantled the building.
About the James Burns Wallace Correspondence:
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 concern legal matters and support for Kimball’s school from abolitionists Samuel H. Cox and David Child. N.P. Rogers, an attorney and editor of the Herald of Freedom, an antislavery newspaper published in Concord, corresponded with Kimball.
Source: The History of Canaan, William Allen Wallace, ed. by James Burns Wallace, 1910.
Folder Listing:
| Letters to George Kimball, 1827-1835. 18 items. Correspondents include Samuel H. Cox, Moody & George Kent, and N.P. Rogers. |
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| f.1 | 1827 |
| f.2 | 1828 |
| f.3 | 1829 |
| f.4 | 1830 |
| f.5 | 1834/1835 |
| f.6 | undated letters from N.P. Rogers |
| James B. Wallace letters, 1827-1840. 17 items. |
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| f.7 | 1827 |
| f.8 | 1832-1834 |
| f.9 | 1835-1836 |
| f.10 | 1837-1840 |
| Wallace family correspondence. |
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| f.11 | 7 items. |
| James B. Wallace manuscripts, ca. 1830s. 2 items. |
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| f.12 | “Canaan.” |
| f.13 | “Killing Time.” |