COOPER, James Fenimore] COOPER, Susan F. (1813-1894), Writer, Daughter of James Fenimore Cooper . Autograph letter signed ("Susan F. Cooper") to William Cullen Bryant, Cooperstown, 24 January 1885. 2½ pages, 12mo. SUSAN COOPER ADDRESSES THE "NATIONAL DISGRACE" OF INDIAN RELATIONS. An intriguing letter addressed to editor William Cullen Bryant in which Susan Cooper expresses her great displeasure over the treatment of Native-Americans. After thanking Bryant for sending the information on the Indian orphanage, a topic that would have been of interest because of her own successful endeavors to create an Orphan House in Cooperstown, N.Y., she laments the national treatment of native groups: "My Father always had in his library works connected with the Red Man and these always had a great attraction for me...As I grew older...[I felt] grief and shame at our national disgrace and lack of justice, and wisdom, in dealing with the wild race whose place we have taken." She notes that she has attempted to publish a history of "the People of the Long House" but her manuscripts have always been rejected without being read. Susan Fenimore Cooper travelled extensively with her father and authored several books including Rural Hours and Mount Vernon, a Letter to the Children of America .
COOPER, James Fenimore] COOPER, Susan F. (1813-1894), Writer, Daughter of James Fenimore Cooper . Autograph letter signed ("Susan F. Cooper") to William Cullen Bryant, Cooperstown, 24 January 1885. 2½ pages, 12mo. SUSAN COOPER ADDRESSES THE "NATIONAL DISGRACE" OF INDIAN RELATIONS. An intriguing letter addressed to editor William Cullen Bryant in which Susan Cooper expresses her great displeasure over the treatment of Native-Americans. After thanking Bryant for sending the information on the Indian orphanage, a topic that would have been of interest because of her own successful endeavors to create an Orphan House in Cooperstown, N.Y., she laments the national treatment of native groups: "My Father always had in his library works connected with the Red Man and these always had a great attraction for me...As I grew older...[I felt] grief and shame at our national disgrace and lack of justice, and wisdom, in dealing with the wild race whose place we have taken." She notes that she has attempted to publish a history of "the People of the Long House" but her manuscripts have always been rejected without being read. Susan Fenimore Cooper travelled extensively with her father and authored several books including Rural Hours and Mount Vernon, a Letter to the Children of America .
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