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Letter from Elihu Burritt regarding the Free Produce Movement. Particularly his efforts to bring the Movement to England and the necessity of estabishing free produce colonies in America.

Engraving of the burning of Pennsylvania Hall in 1838, published in the book, History of Pennsylvania Hall, Which Was Destroyed by a Mob, On the 17th of May, 1838 (Philadelphia: Printed by Merrihew and Gunn). Written on back of frame: "The wood from which this frame was made came from pieces salvaged from Pennsylvania Hall, after it burned down. The frame originally contained a mirror and was given to John G. Whittier by a friend. Later he presented it to his cousin Ann E. Wendell, and it continued in her possession until her death in 1908. Afterward the print of the burning of Pennsylvania Hall was enlarged and put in this frame, in the place of the mirror. As a contemporary pro slavery writer described it: "The noble fireman to a man refused to play the hose on the burning building." The frame and print are the property of Margaret Wendell Hess Wayne, PA. Hall burned May 17th 1838. Presented to Haverford College May 1956"