Vida Dutton Scudder Papers, 1883-1979
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topic: Incoming: Keyes, Amy Garst1935
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topic: Other publications1884-1948
subject: Other publications1884-1948
topic: Books
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topic: The Church and the Hour: Papers of a Socialist Churchwoman (first edition)1917
subject: The Church and the Hour: Papers of a Socialist Churchwoman (first edition)1917
topic: Letters to Her Companions, by Emily Malbone Morgan (edited by Vida Dutton Scudder)1944
subject: Letters to Her Companions, by Emily Malbone Morgan (edited by Vida Dutton Scudder)1944
topic: A Listener in Babel (first edition)1903
subject: A Listener in Babel (first edition)1903
topic: My Quest for Reality (first edition)1952
subject: My Quest for Reality (first edition)1952
topic: On Journey(first edition) 1937
subject: On Journey(first edition) 1937
topic: ReviewMay 1937
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topic: The Privilege of Age: Essays Secular and Spiritual (first edition) 1939
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provides access to: Atlantic Monthly1883-1931 and Yale Review1914-21
provides access to: Other publications1884-1948
provides access to: Books
provides access to: The Church and the Hour: Papers of a Socialist Churchwoman (first edition)1917
provides access to: Letters to Her Companions, by Emily Malbone Morgan (edited by Vida Dutton Scudder)1944
provides access to: A Listener in Babel (first edition)1903
provides access to: My Quest for Reality (first edition)1952
provides access to: On Journey(first edition) 1937
provides access to: ReviewMay 1937
provides access to: The Privilege of Age: Essays Secular and Spiritual (first edition) 1939

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scopecontent: Scope and Contents of the Collection The Vida Dutton Scudder Papers consist of .75 linear feet of printed material, writings, photographs, and correspondence. Most of the correspondence consists of letters to Margaret Storrs Grierson, Smith College Archivist and Director of the Sophia Smith Collection. Since the majority of Scudder's papers were destroyed at her own request, the journals contained in this collection are of particular interest. They include her College Settlement [Association] notebook, which contains meeting notes, as well as general and personal notes; six journals containing the original draft of her autobiography as well as personal reflections; and three handwritten essays. In addition there are clippings and articles by and about Scudder in numerous publications, and four of her books.
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body: Biographical Note Vida Dutton Scudder, 1884 Vida Scudder was born in India on December 15, 1861, the only child of Harriet Louisa (Dutton) and David Coit Scudder. She and her mother returned to Boston following the death of her father, although she spent much of her childhood traveling in Europe. She attended Boston private secondary schools, and graduated from Smith College in 1884. While doing postgraduate work at Oxford University, where she attended lectures by John Ruskin, Scudder developed the beginnings of social awareness that were to guide her through the rest of her life. She taught in the English Department of Wellesley College from 1887 to 1927, where she was often in conflict with the administration over her socialist activities. In 1887, Scudder along with colleagues from Bryn Mawr, Smith, and Vassar, began plans for the College Settlements Association and in 1889 the first settlement house opened on Rivington St. in New York City. Beginning in 1893 and for the next twenty years she was a primary administrator of Denison House in Boston. In 1889, Scudder became a charter member of the Brotherhood of the Carpenter, a worker's organization, and also began working in the Christian Social Union, the purpose of which was to implement Christian principles in bringing "relief to the social and economic disorder of society." Beginning in 1889, she was a member of the Society of the Companions of the Holy Cross, a religious organization that gave her long-term strength and support. In 1911, she co-founded the Episcopal Church Socialist League and joined the Socialist Party, and in 1919, she organized the Church League for Industrial Democracy. Although Scudder supported Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I, in the postwar years she moved towards pacifism. She joined the Fellowship of Reconciliation in 1923 and the same year gave a series of lectures at a meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Prague. She was a delegate to…
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SERIES I. BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS
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scopecontent: This series contains articles and newspaper clippings about Scudder, her College Settlement notebook and her journals, and photographs of Scudder and her room in Dewey House at Smith College. Audiocassettes of Dr. Frances M. Young speaking about Scudder at the Adelynrood Retreat and Conference Center are also included.

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scopecontent: This series consists primarily of correspondence with Margaret Storrs Grierson, in which Scudder discusses the possibility of donating her personal papers to Smith College's nascent women's history collection. Also of interest is correspondence re: religion and theology between Scudder and Father Hastings Smyth. There are also a few letters to and from others, pertaining mainly to Scudder's fellow alumnae from the Smith College Class of 1884.

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scopecontent: This series is the most extensive in the collection and contains articles and books written by Scudder throughout her life. It contains essays written for Smith College classes, and pieces published in the Andover Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Yale Review, and many other publications. Scudder was deeply religious and this is evident in all of her writings, spirituality serving both as a topic in and of itself and as a springboard for her moral and social convictions.

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College Settlement notebook1908
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