Title: Stephen Pearl Andrews Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1844-1925 (bulk 1860s-1880s)

Creator:

• Andrews, Stephen Pearl, 1812-1886

Call Number: U.S. Mss 19A; Micro 871

Quantity: 2.2 cubic feet (6 archives boxes) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Papers, mainly from the 1860s through the 1880s, of Stephen Pearl Andrews, an abolitionist, philosopher, and linguist. The collection includes an outline for an eight-volume treatise on Universology, a deductive science of the universe; articles and addresses regarding Alwato, an international language devised by Andrews; a constitution and reports for the Pantarchal University, founded by Andrews and others in 1872 to promote his theories regarding the ideal society; an incomplete autobiography; and a small amount of correspondence. Reference is made in the autobiography to Andrews' work as an abolitionist in Texas, his work with Sir Isaac Pitman in developing the Pitman Shorthand system, his editing of two radical magazines, The Anglo-Saxon and The Propagandist, and his sponsorship of two societies for free discussion in New York: the Colloquium and the Manhattan Liberal Club. Part of the autobiography is water-damaged and unreadable.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-us00019a

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Acquisition Information

Received from the Commons Labor Library, 1933.

U.S. Mss 19A Box   1 Folder   1	Speech
Box   1 Folder   2	“First Sequential Exposition of the Constitution of the Pantarchy,” 1876
Box   1 Folder   3	Correspondence concerning S.P. Andrews and his manuscripts, 1889-1895, 1925
Box   1 Folder   4	Reviews of Herbert Spencer and George H. Lewis
Box   1 Folder   5	“The Pantarchy”
Box   1 Folder   6	Miscellaneous addresses and reviews
Box   1 Folder   7	Correspondence, 1844, 1850, 1869-1884
Box   1 Folder   8	Liberal Club addresses
Box   1 Folder   9	“Numbers” manuscript
Box   1 Folder   10	Origin of the War III, IV, V Note: Parts I and II missing.
Box   1 Folder   11	Writings on Universology
Box   1 Folder   12	Religious writings
Box   1 Folder   13	Plan for eight volume series
Box   1 Folder   13	Biographical sketch
	Autobiography
Box   1 Folder   13	Introduction, pages 1-19
Box   1 Folder   14	Chapter 1: Residence at Home, pages 19-95
Box   2 Folder   1	Chapter 2: Residence at Jackson, pages 97-223
Box   2 Folder   3	Chapter 3: Residence at Clinton, pages 224-289
Box   2 Folder   2	Writings on government
Box   2 Folder   4	“Sociological Comparology or Anarchy, Social Idealism and Pantarchy or Bakoumine, Swedenborg, and Andrews” manuscript
Box   2 Folder   5	Writings on etymology
Box   2 Folder   6	“Love, Marriage, and the Condition of Woman” manuscript
Box   2 Folder   7	Writings on science and its classification
Box   3 Folder   1	Manuscripts
Box   3 Folder   2	Manuscript fragments, circa 1850-1860
	Notebooks
Box   3 Folder   3	Number 1, 1884
Box   3 Folder   4	Number 5
Box   3 Folder   5	Numbers 2 and 3, St. Cloud
Box   4 Folder   4	Appendix to notebook number 3
Box   3 Folder   6	“World Building: The Biblical Account of Creation, Reviewed newly Interpreted and Justified,” notebook
Box   4 Folder   1-2	Manuscripts
Box   4 Folder   3	Beginnings of thought and language
Box   5 Folder   1	Loose pages
Box   5 Folder   2	Apocalypse, volume 3
Box   5 Folder   3	Apocalypse, volume 4
Box   5 Folder   4	Notebooks
Box   6 Folder   1	Manuscript
Box   6 Folder   2	Loose pages
Box   6 Folder   3	Notebooks