[Education] Mann, Horace. Autograph Letter Signed by Horace Mann. Boston, Jan. 10, 1842. Two pages, on one folded sheet, addressed to Rev. S.P. Newman of Andover, Mass., an important letter regarding political maneuvering around education reform, in which Mann writes of the current session of the state legislature, whose actions, he feels, “will have no little bearing upon the school interests of the whole Union,” and suggesting that Newman write to a House member, Samuel H. Walley, “setting forth, in the first plan the wants of our common schools the necessity of such an institution as the Normal School, the advantage, they have already been to the school system, & the still greater advantage which they can now be…” Finally Mann, while admitting that “perhaps I have gone too far in my suggestions,” nonetheless offers to arrange for the publication of the proposed letter in the Daily Advertiser, which “would give us great strength on the floor of the House.—for the real contest is to be there.” Mailing folds, small loss from original wax seal.