Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, 1814-2005 (ongoing)
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection Pages from Clara M. Reed's Dresden travel journal, September 1890 The Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection consists of biographical sketches, correspondence, diaries, genealogies, photographs, photograph albums, memoirs, memorabilia, postcards, scrapbooks, and travel journals dating from 1814 to 1987. This material documents various aspects of the daily lives and activities of women from diverse backgrounds. This collection is made up of individual items or groups of items that are too small to stand on their own as separate collections, but are otherwise unrelated. About half of the collection dates from the nineteenth century and consists primarily of correspondence, diaries, and unpublished memoirs from unknown, or little known, women. Also included are a few letters from well-known figures such as Susan B. Anthony, Alice Stone Blackwell, Alice Morse Earle, Edward Everett Hale, Julia Ward Howe, and Frances Willard; a photo of Harriet Beecher Stowe; and autographed quotations by William Lloyd Garrison, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The twentieth century material is more varied. In addition to correspondence, diaries and memoirs, it includes many photographs (both loose and in albums), some genealogical material, and other miscellaneous memorabilia. Well-known figures represented in the correspondence include Booker T. Washington and Madame Chiang Kai-shek. The letters of Ellen Downes, a Naval secretary, written from Japan, Washington D.C., and Moscow between 1937 and 1948, are accompanied by photos and are very descriptive. A family photo album belonging to a woman identified only as "Gertrude" contains many interesting photographs, including some of Native Americans and some of cross-dressed women, taken in California, Albuquerque, and Canada, circa 1905 to 1913.
Family--United States--History--19th century--Sources
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Recipes--History--Sources
Women--United States--History--19th century--Sources
Women--United States--History--20th century--Sources
Women--Religion--History--Sources
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911
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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906--Correspondence
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950--Correspondence
Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909--Correspondence
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910--Correspondence
Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898--Correspondence
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915--Correspondence
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897- --Correspondence
New England--Social Life and Customs--19th century--Sources
United States--Description and travel--Sources
Lillie Mae Bernice Alston, 1931-: memoir of her childhood in Mississippi, 1972
Lucinda Andrus: commonplace book, 1837-40
Mason Daniel Barrett
Cornelia Middagh Birdsall, 1835- : memoir of life in Brooklyn and Quebec Province, [?]-1861
Alice H. Burbank
Joan Brumley Cooper: scrapbook
Clara E. Cotter: commonplace book, 1850-56
Ellen Downes: letters
Alice Morse Earle: correspondence, 1900-10, n.d.
Annie C.S. Fenner: Scrapbook
Carolyn Galbraith
Correspondence
to friends from Grenfell Mission, Labrador, 1926-27, n.d.
from teachers and students at Grenfell Mission, Labrador, 1926-35
Photographs and memorabilia, 1920-27, n.d.
Martha Diman Gardner: Diaries, 1816-1892
Ophelia Hoefling Gleason: memoir, photographs (mostly photocopies), and memorabilia, 1896-
Louise (Dodge) Goodwin, Household Account Book, 1914-1917
Amanda Harwood Ferry Hall, 1828-1916?: memoir, begun 1906, and related material
Julia Ward Howe: letters to Eliza Middleton, 5 Mar 1838; and 1 Feb and 4 Mar 1839
Lucy Hunting [?]: Diary of a Girl, 1887
H. Louise Johnson: book of quotes and diary, circa 1960
Janet Krogh: Scrapbook
Fanny H. Lackey: commonplace book, circa 1863-85
Levi Lamb: commonplace book, circa 1835-42
Harriet McNeil: correspondence, 1814-19
Hedwig Meerman: letters to Margaret St. Julien Childs, and NACHRICHTEN (newsletter), 1981-87
Sarah Parkhurst: letters to her husband, William H. Parkhurst, Apr-Oct 1846
Marian Prior: "In the Office" (typescript), and photographs
Katie Putnam: diary, 1863
Clara M. Reed: European travel journals (2 vols.), Jun-Oct 1890
Mrs. L.C. Robinson: letters and notes on religious religion, 1850-62
Adaline Shaw: letter to Daniel Shaw, 28 May 1848
Genevieve Bowen Shaw: correspondence (annual Christmas letters), biographical information, memorabilia, and photographs, circa 1916-62
Lucille Tillinghad, personal account book, 1930-35
Mary Ulery, diary exerpt, 1867
Westerberg, Lila Angell, Peace Corp Correspondence (Ghana), 1964-1966
Joan Brumley Cooper: scrapbook of cross-U.S. trip, 1928
Ellen Downes: letters to Leila Wilson and Downes' mother from Japan, Washington, DC, and Moscow, 1938-48
Annie C.S. Fenner: scrapbook of original correspondence and published version of Rules for Good Living (WCTU, 1895)
Anonymous family photographic album
Janet Krogh (Smith 1934): World War II Scrapbook, 1943-1945
Flynn, Hulda Rees: Psychologist and Social Activist, Smith 1931
Biographical information, articles, and correspondence, 1938-2005
FBI file, circa 1943-71
Mason Daniel Barrett: correspondence 1927-45
Alice H. Burbank: correspondence to Esma W. Brown re: travel in Italy 1938-39
BOOKS ON SHELF
Earle, Alice Morse, Customs and Fashions in Old New England (1893)
Home Life in Colonial Days (1900)
The Sabbath in Puritan New England (1891)