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Call No.: MC 178/M-145
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Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: NEW ENGLAND WOMEN'S CLUB, 1868-
Title: Records, 1843, 1849, 1857-1970
Quantity: 5 cartons, 2 file boxes, 1 folio box, 4 folio+ folders, 1 oversize folder Photographs: 1 folio box, 1 folio folder
Abstract: Minutes, correspondence, reports, etc., of the New England Women's Club, one of the oldest women's clubs in the United States.

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HISTORY

The New England Women's Club, one of the oldest women's clubs in the United States, had its beginnings in February 1868 at a meeting at the house of Dr. Harriot K. Hunt. The first public meeting, which officially initiated the life of the club, was held on May 30, 1868. Caroline M. Severance (the first president) and Julia Ward Howe explained the purposes of the club as providing a meeting-place for women outside their homes, giving them new knowledge and inspiration for their work at home and outside, and uniting their efforts in various social causes. Beginning that autumn, the club held weekly meetings from November to May, with speakers on subjects in literature, history, music or art, or on such topics of current interest as suffrage, needy children, industrial schools, homes for the poor, and cooperative kitchens. Speakers included both club members (Ednah Dow Cheney, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Peabody Mann, Elizabeth P. Peabody, et al.) and such prominent contemporaries as William Henry Channing, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and Henry and William James. Men, including some of those named, were associate members, but the club was managed entirely by women, at a time when it was radical for women to meet outside the home or even to call their association a club.

Among the early projects of the club or its committees were a report on needlewomen in Boston; a Friendly Evenings Association, which provided a comfortable meeting-place for working women for about a year, when the project was taken over by the newly-established Women's Educational and Industrial Union; a Horticultural School for Women; the Dress Reform Rooms established and run by the Dress Reform Committee to make and sell "hygienic" garments for women; and work by the Education Committee that led to the election of four women to the Boston School Committee in 1874.

On the cultural side there were, in addition to the many lectures, "poetical picnics," with contributions by members; annual lunches to honor astronomer Maria Mitchell; celebrations of Margaret Fuller's birthday; dramatic performances; and regular classes in English literature, botany, physiology, and languages. The club's history of cultural and philanthropic activities has continued to the present.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The NEWC records are divided into five sections:

• I. History
• II. Secretaries' records
• III. Programs
• IV. Membership
• V. Financial records

The collection provides a detailed record of board, annual and social meetings, 1868-1963; biographical information on some of the leading members; lists of members and officers; programs, calendars, financial records (1891-1963), and reports of officers, committees and classes, for many of the years of the club's existence; a small amount of correspondence; some documentation of the difficulties encountered by the Dress Reform Committee (#73-75) and of the financial crisis of 1899 (25v); and papers on the relationship of the NEWC to the Massachusetts Federation of Women's Clubs from the latter's founding in 1893 (#119).

Series I, History (#1v-21f), consists of the following in the order listed: regulations, bylaws, and constitution; lists of officers, nominations, and ballots; yearbooks, 1880-1970; Historian's records, and other historical information; and photographs.

Series II, Secretaries' records (#22-57), includes the recording secretary's minutes (Board of Directors, annual, and Monday afternoon meetings) and annual reports, and reports of the corresponding secretary. The records of the recording secretary also contain membership, committee, and class information, and financial reports: e.g. treasurer's, auditor's, Reserve Fund.

Series III, Programs (#58-120), includes four sections: committee reports; class reports; projects, which include papers read to the club, programs for performances, meeting announcements, original charades, book and travel talks, and the Horticultural School for Women; and correspondence, reports, etc., re: NEWC's relations with other women's organizations.

The meetings arranged by the Discussion Committee (#70-72) covered a variety of topics: e.g. cycling for women, literature, foreign travel, manners, crime, politics, suffrage, immigration, public education, education for girls, and paid work for women. Some of the committee's annual reports give a cursory description of topics discussed, others are more detailed.

Papers read to the club (#106-108) also cover a variety of topics and they include "Legal condition of women in Massachusetts" by Lucy Stone. Those by Julia Ward Howe include one about the Department of Woman's Work at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (New Orleans, 1884-85); most of the rest are about the NEWC and the women's club movement.

Series IV, Membership (#121-144), contains, in the following order: membership lists, membership proposals and applications, each section arranged chronologically; and a section of documents by and about individual members. This last section is arranged alphabetically.

Series V, Financial records (#145-177), includes three sections: treasurer's records which consist of the following five sub-sections (each arranged chronologically): reports (multi-year, annual, and monthly), receipt and expenditure ledgers, checks and checkbooks, budgets, donations made by NEWC; auditor's reports; Reserve Fund which consist of the following three sub-sections (each arranged chronologically): reports, bank records, and correspondence.

There are also financial records in the yearbooks (series I), the secretary's records (series II), and in the finance committee papers (series III).

Researchers following up on names or subjects listed in the added entries should be aware that much of the relevant documentation can be found in the board, annual, and regular meeting minutes and in committee reports.

Many file units listed as volumes in the 1973 inventory of these records have now been placed in folders for preservation purposes, and are numbered accordingly.

MICROFILM OF COLLECTION

• - The papers in this collection presented a challenge to the processor and the microfilmer. Some of the material, particularly in the volumes, was difficult to film, due to such problems as faded ink, creased and brittle newsprint, staining caused by scotch tape, glue, and discolored newsprint, tight bindings that may cause gutter shadow, and, in scrapbooks, glued-in, multi-paged, folded, and overlapping items. It was impossible to film the last or back page of some items, because they were glued to the page.
• - All dates and other information added by the processor are in square brackets.
• - Unnumbered volume and notebook pages containing text, and some multipaged letters, were numbered by the processor to aid the microfilmer, the proofreader, and researchers.
• - Blank volume pages numbered by the printer were filmed only when opposite a page with text.
• - Loose items found between pages of notebooks or other volumes were filmed where found.
• - Some reports were handwritten on the reverse side of previously used paper. With a few exceptions only the ms. side was filmed.
• - Many multipaged letters conclude at the top or sides of page one, or another page that is not the last. The page with the ending was not refilmed, so researchers must return to the pertinent page.
• - The film was proofread by the Schlesinger Library and corrections made where necessary.
• - Copies of this microfilm (M-145) may be borrowed on interlibrary loan from the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.

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INVENTORY

• Series I. HISTORY
  • 1v. "Rules and Regulations," 1868-1882: includes by-laws. Also used as guest book for Old Home Week, 1907, and Massachusetts Federation reception for delegates of General Federation of Women's Clubs, 1908.
  • 2. Constitution, bylaws, regulations, 1868, 1958, n.d. Bylaws Revision Committee: meeting minutes, 1899.
  • 3. Lists of officers, nominations, ballots, 1871-1959 (scattered).
  • 4-8: Yearbooks
    • 4. 1880/1881 - 1904/1905
    • 5. 1905/1906 - 1918/1919
    • 6. 1919/1920 - 1934/1935
    • 7. 1935/1936 - 1951/1952
    • 8. 1952/1953 - 1969/1970
  • Folio box 2 - 10v: Historian's records
    • Folio box 2: Disassembled scrapbook, 1857-1919. Started by Julia A. Sprague and continued by other historians. Intended partly as an autograph collection and so includes letters, poems or messages by the following: Louisa May Alcott (copy of a poem for Club Tea, 1875); Julia R. Anagnos; William Henry Channing; Ednah Dow Cheney; James Freeman Clarke; Abby Morton Diaz; Ralph Waldo Emerson, see Thoreau; Kate Field (article re: NEWC, 1869); Isabella Stewart Gardner; William Lloyd Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Jr. (poem to NEWC, 1897); Lucy Goddard; Julia Ward Howe (Battle Hymn of the Republic and story of its writing, encomiums); Mary Holman Ladd; Mary A. Livermore; Abigail Williams May; Maria Mitchell; Lucretia Mott; Louise Chandler Moulton; Elizabeth Palmer Peabody; Lucia M. Peabody; Olive A. Perry; Wendell Phillips; George Ripley; Caroline M. Severance; Julia A. Sprague; Lucy Stone; Henry David Thoreau (fragments of poem, "The Winter's Walk,” by Gavin Douglas, in handwriting of HDT and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843); Kate Gannett Wells; John Greenleaf Whittier; Abba Goold Woolson; Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska; et al. Also newsclippings from Woman's Journal, etc.; club histories, programs, invitations, reports, lists of meetings and members, and one PHOTOGRAPH of a garden.
      There is no file unit designation for this folio box. References to items in this scrapbook appear in the Correspondents Index as fb2.
    • 9. Historian's annual reports, 1901-1965 (scattered)
    • 10v. "Diary," 1921-1926. Mainly monthly programs and clippings; includes PHOTOGRAPHS.
  • 11. Miscellaneous histories, ca. 1914-1961 (scattered), n.d. Includes information re: club name, rooms.
  • 12-13. Club rooms and building, Woman's Club House Corp.: questionnaires, correspondence, business meeting minutes, reports, leases, list of NEWC addresses, 1868-1944 (scattered), n.d.
    See also #11, 62, 66, 85.
  • 14. Articles re: NEWC, 1897-1908
  • 15. 50th anniversary: history of "Second Quarter Century," read by Mary H. Ladd, 1918
  • 16. 100th anniversary: ticket, program, 1968
  • 17. Disassembled scrapbook: mainly clippings (including obituaries), also poems, Laura E. Richards letter, 1935-1970.
  • 18o. NEWC Roll of Honor, n.d.
  • 19vf-21f: PHOTOGRAPHS.
    See also #55.
    • 19vf-20vf: Photograph albums
      • 19vf. 1868-1908:Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Stone Blackwell, Henry Brown Blackwell, Ednah Dow Cheney, James Freeman Clarke, Lidian Jackson Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Follen, William Lloyd Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Samuel Gridley Howe, Harriot K. Hunt, Mary A. Livermore, Abigail Williams May, Maria Mitchell, Louise Chandler Moulton, Lucia M. Peabody, Julia A. Sprague, Lucy Stone, Booker T. Washington, Kate Gannett Wells, John Greenleaf Whittier, Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, et al. Also photographs of No. 3 Tremont Place in 1876, English literature class
      • 20vf. 1910-1941: Portraits of club officers, members; cast of a play; some group pictures. Includes Julia Ward Howe, Mary Holman Ladd, Anne Lauriat Read, May Alden Ward, et al.
    • 21f. "Dickens [costume] Party," 1905.
      FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.

• Series II. SECRETARIES' RECORDS
  • 22-54: Recording secretary
    • 22-38: Minutes. Most of Board of Directors, some regular and annual meetings; includes annual reports.
      • 22. Feb. 18, 1868 - May 3, 1873
      • 23v. May 31, 1873 - May 7, 1881
      • 24v. May 28, 1881 - May 2, 1891
      • 25v. May 30, 1891 - Jan. 28, 1901
      • 26v. Nov. 6, 1899 - May 14, 1900
      • 27v. Feb. 2, 1901 - Dec. 29, 1910
      • 28v. Feb. 18, 1911 - May 24, 1919
      • 29v. Oct. 4, 1919 - May 1925
      • 30. 1922-1924
      • 31v. May 18, 1925 - Nov. 2, 1935
      • 32v. Dec. 7, 1935 - Dec. 6, 1948
      • 33v. Jan. 3, 1949 - May 7, 1956
      • 34. Nov. 5, 1956 - May 11, 1957
      • 35. Nov. 4, 1957 - May 23, 1958
      • 36. Nov. 3, 1958 - May 1, 1961
      • 37. Nov. 6, 1961 - May 6, 1963
      • 38. n.d.
    • 39-51v: Minutes. Most of "regular" (Monday afternoon) meetings, some annual.
      • 39-41: Informal minutes
        • 39v. Record Book of the "Weekly Social Meetings," Nov. 6, 1868 - Feb. 27, 1871. Includes history from February 18, 1868; poems by Julia Ward Howe et al.; reports of talks by JWH, Ednah Dow Cheney, James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William James, Mrs. Horace Mann, Maria Mitchell, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Josiah Quincy; poem honoring Margaret Fuller.
        • 40. 5 small notebooks, May 30, 1868 - June 3, 1882
        • 41. 16 "Club Journals," Nov. 6, 1882 - May 24, 1899
      • 42-51v: Includes clippings, programs
        • 42v. Apr. 5, 1900 - May 12, 1902
        • 43v. Nov. 3, 1902 - May 9, 1904
        • 44v. Nov. 7, 1904 - May 25, 1907
        • 45v. Nov. 11, 1907 - May 9, 1910
        • 46v. Nov. 7, 1910 - Dec. 30, 1912
        • 47v. Jan. 6, 1913 - Dec. 27, 1915
        • 48v. Jan. 3, 1916 - May 28, 1923; includes 1923-1924 ballot.
        • 49v. Oct. 29, 1923 - Jan. 25, 1937
        • 50v. Feb. 1, 1937 - Jan. 5, 1948
        • 51v. Jan. 12, 1948 - Apr. 30, 1956
    • 52-54: Recording secretary's annual reports, all by Lucia M. Peabody
      • 52. 1885-1892
      • 53. 1894-1899, n.d.
      • 54. Printed, 1869, 1873, 1893
  • 55-57: Corresponding secretary's reports
    • 55. 1908-1962 (scattered); includes letter re: photograph albums (#19vf, 20vf).
    • 56-57: Notebooks (fragile)
      • 56. 1924-1928
      • 57. 1928-1935

• Series III. PROGRAMS
  • 58-96: Committee reports.
    See also #22-38, 52-54.
    • 58. Admissions, 1924-1958 (scattered), n.d.
      See also #124-126.
    • 59. Amendments, 1900; n.d.
    • 60. Art, 1924-1961 (scattered)
    • 61. Art and literature, 1875, 1889-1903.
      See also #60, 86.
    • 62. Business, 1910-1940 (scattered)
    • 63-65: Class Committee
      • 63. 1886-1894
      • 64. 1895-1900
      • 65. 1934-1940, n.d.
    • 66. Club Quarters, 1909
    • 67. Correspondence, National and Foreign, 1873-1876, 1894
    • 68. Credentials, 1900
    • 69. Current History, 1923-1924, 1933-1962 (scattered)
    • 70-72: Discussion Committee
      • 70. 1877-1883: clippings from Woman's Journal
      • 71. 1891-1898
      • 72. 1898-1903, n.d.
    • 73-75: Dress Reform
      • 73. 1874-1876; includes clippings, n.d.
      • 74-75: Correspondence (from Sara E. Brown, Phebe Mitchell Kendall, Helen C. Lewis, Lucia M. Peabody, Caroline M. Severance, Henrietta S.T. Wolcott, Abba Goold Woolson, et al.)
        • 74. 1874 - Oct. 1875
        • 75. Nov. 1875 - Oct. 1876, n.d.
    • 76-79: Education
      • 76. 1872-1887
      • 77. 1890-1896
      • 78. 1898-1903?
      • 79. 1923-1924, 1933-1962 (scattered), n.d.
    • 80. Entertainment, 1900-1962 (scattered), n.d.
    • 81-84f+: Finance.
      See also #145.
      • 81. 1900-1903, 1918-1921
      • 82. 1922-1929
      • 83. 1930-1940, 1950-1962, n.d.
      • 84f+. Analyses of receipts and expenses, 1918-1937
    • 85. House, 1900-1909, 1926-1962, n.d. Includes inventory of club rooms.
    • 86. Literature, 1923-1963? (scattered).
      See also #61.
    • 87. Membership, 1938-1939, 1958-1962.
      See also #121-144.
    • 88. Needlewomen, 1869
    • 89. Press, 1932-1940 Press and Printing, 1960-1961, n.d.
    • 90. Printing, 1900-1918 (scattered), 1932-1939.
      See also #55.
    • 91. Scholarship, n.d.; Social Activities, 1934-1961 (scattered), n.d.
    • 92-96: Work Committee
      • 92-93: Meeting records
        • 92. 1868-1871
        • 93. 1875-1901
      • 94-96: Reports
        • 94. 1868, 1891-1895
        • 95. 1896-1899
        • 96. 1900-1962 (scattered), n.d.
  • 97-105: Class reports
    • 97. Art, 1935-1940, n.d.
    • 98. Art and literature, 1932-1933
    • 99. Current literature, 1932-1940
    • 100. Drama, 1937-1938
    • 101-103: English literature
      • 101. 1884, Dec. 11, 1888 - Feb. 3, 1892
      • 102. Feb. 10, 1892 - Dec. 1, 1897
      • 103. Dec. 1, 1897 - Apr. 29, 1903, n.d.
    • 104. French, 1939-1940; German, 1933-1940, n.d.
    • 105. Physiology, 1883; Poetry, 1933-1939; Practice contract, 1934-1937.
  • 106-116: Projects
    • 106-108: Papers read to club
      • 106. ca. 1869-1873, 1911, n.d., by Ednah Dow Cheney, Lucy Stone, Abigail W. May, et al.
      • 107-108: By Julia Ward Howe
        • 107. 1873-1907? (scattered)
        • 108. n.d.
    • 109. Programs for performances, 1898-1900, n.d.
    • 110. Meeting announcements with program information, 1900-1931, 1969, n.d.
    • 111. Original charades by NEWC members, 1906
    • 112. Book and travel talks, 1956-1962, n.d.
    • 113. Poems and songs by Charlotte W. Hawes, James Freeman Clarke, John J. Loud et al., 1895-1897, 1908, n.d.
    • 114-116: Horticultural School for Women.
      See also #92-96.
      • 114-115: Minutes; includes bylaws, officers, committees.
        • 114. Feb. 23, 1870 - Feb. 11, 1871
        • 115. Mar. 3, 1871 - Jan. 13, 1885. Includes Act of Incorporation, correspondence, 1885?-1886.
      • 116. First annual report, Jan. 9, 1871, printed. Also 1944 letter re: NEWC donation of books to Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
  • 117-120: Other women's organizations
    • 117. Correspondence, 1871-1903 (scattered), n.d. Includes 1898 letter re: change in "nightwalking" law, also list of other clubs.
    • 118. "Report of the 1st year of the Women's International Peace Society, Manchester,” 1873. Association for the Advancement of Woman: : 19th annual convention souvenir booklet, 1891.
    • 119. General Federation of Women's Clubs: report by Julia Ward Howe et al. on joining the Federation, 1891; correspondence, 1891-1902, 1965.
    • 120. Massachusetts and Boston clubs, 1930-1966 (scattered), n.d.: proposal for making NEWC "a club including delegates from the clubs of Greater Boston" delegates list, reports, annual meeting program, poem.

• Series IV. MEMBERSHIP
  • 121-123: Membership lists, most with addresses. Includes new, life, and honorary members, guests.
    • 121v. 1868-1872
    • 122. 1868-1907, n.d.; includes necrology , list of possible speakers.
    • 123. 1870s?-1912 (notebooks)
  • 124-126: Proposed members and sponsors, new members
    • 124. 1919, 1923-1950
    • 125. 1950-1958
    • 126. 1966, n.d.; includes correspondence.
  • 127. Miscellaneous correspondence, ca. 1944, 1957, n.d.
  • 128-144: By and re: individual members; includes biographical information, correspondence.
    • 128. Ednah Dow Cheney, 1895, 1905, n.d. Includes letter from Henry L. Shrewsbury about voting rights for African Americans; EDC memorial meeting booklet.
      See also folio box 2, #19vf, 39, 61, 106, 143.
    • 129. Alice Turner Curtis. Letters to Mabel Marsh by and about ATC, 1956-1959.
      See also #135.
    • 130. Mary Parker Dunning. Poem, "The Rubaiyat of the New England Women's Club,” 1969.
      See also #17.
    • 131-132: Julia Ward Howe.
      See also folio box 2, #17, 19vf-20vf, 39.
      • 131. Photographs, articles by and re: JWH, "Memorial Exercises" booklet, 1870-1961 (scattered), n.d.
      • 132. Correspondence re: signature of artist, Carnig Eksergian, on JWH portrait, 1953.
    • 133. Harriot Kezia Hunt: 2 pp. of her will (copy), 1871.
      See also #19vf.
    • 134. Mary Leighton. Christmas poem, n.d., photograph, 1937.
    • 135. Mabel Marsh. Re: Boston Herald editorial, 1956; NEWC correspondence, 1955-1958.
      See also #129.
    • 136. Lucia M. Peabody. Unsigned essay (fragment) re: LMP, 1919; note, n.d.
      See also folio box 2, #19vf, 22-25v, 39-41, 52-54, 74-75, 115.
    • 137. Anne Lauriat Read, 1939-1951 (scattered).
      See also #17, 20vf, 140.
    • 138. Caroline M. Severance. Memorial meeting essay by LMP, correspondence re: CMS, her will, 1901-1915 (scattered).
      See also folio box 2, #74-75.
    • 139. Julia A. Sprague. Mostly letters to Olive A. Perry, 1899-1900, n.d.; incomplete essay re: LMP.
      See also folio box 2, #19vf, 70-72.
    • 140. May Alden Ward. Letter to ALR, memorials, 1917-1918, n.d.
      See also #20vf.
    • 141. Kate Gannett Wells. Incomplete essay re: "Mrs. W.," n.d.
      See also folio box 2, #19vf, 61.
    • 142. "Helen Augusta Whittier, 1846-1925. A Memorial."
    • 143. "Marie Elizabeth Zakrzewska, 1829-1902, A Memoir,” 1903; correspondence 1899, n.d.
      See also folio box 2, #19vf.
    • 144. Photographs from #131, 134. Filmed with respective file units.
      FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.

• Series V. FINANCIAL RECORDS
  • 145-164: Treasurer's records
    • 145. "Report of Committee appointed to consider the relative duties of Financial Committee and Treasurer," 1902
    • 146f+. Multi-year reports, 1892-1927
    • 147-149f+: Annual reports
      • 147. 1899, 1923-1951 (scattered)
      • 148. 1900-1941 (printed); includes some Reserve Fund and auditor's reports.
      • 149f+. 1921-1961 (scattered)
    • 150. Six-month reports, 1934-1939, 1947
    • 151f+-152: Monthly reports
      • 151f+. 1921-1923, 1937
      • 152. 1934-1942, 1948
    • 153v-154v: Receipt and expenditure ledgers
      • 153v. 1910-1917
      • 154v. 1945-1949; includes dues paid lists.
    • 155-158: Checks and checkbooks
      • 155. Checks, Apr. 1947 - Apr. 1948
      • 156v-158: Checkbooks
        • 156v. May 1954 - Dec. 1957
        • 157v. Jan. - Apr. 1958
        • 158. Feb. 1961 - Dec. 1963; includes 2 cartoons about women and money.
    • 159. Budgets, 1923-1938
    • 160-161: Donations made by NEWC: acknowledgements and receipts
      • 160. 1891-1968 (scattered), n.d.
      • 161. Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute: correspondence by and re: NEWC scholarship student, 1901-1905
    • 162. Bills, receipts, 1901-1910, 1961-1962
    • 163. Correspondence re: Mary Holman Ladd bequest, dues, etc., 1900, 1937-1962 (scattered), n.d.
    • 164. Miscellaneous, 1938-1939, n.d.; includes tribute to treasurer, Mrs. C.S. Angell.
  • 165. Auditor's reports, 1924-1962 (scattered)
  • 166-177: Reserve Fund.
    See also #148.
    • 166-169: Monthly and annual reports, investment inventories
      • 166. 1907-1940 (scattered)
      • 167. May 1949 - May 1953
      • 168. Nov. 1953 - May 1957
      • 169. May 1957 - May 1962, n.d.
    • 170-174: Bank records
      • 170. Savings bank book, 1929-1948; State Street Trust Co. statements, 1949-1952
      • 171v-174: Checkbooks
        • 171v. Dec. 1934 - Apr. 1948
        • 172v. May 1948 - March 1954
        • 173v. Mar. 1954 - Apr. 1958
        • 174. Apr. 1958 - May 1962
    • 175-177: Correspondence re: investments; includes statements and transaction notices.
      • 175. 1949-1955, with Minot, Kendall and Co. Inc.
      • 176. 1950-1961, from various, some re: bequest to NEWC
      • 177. 1958-1959, from Hemphill, Noyes and Co.

INDEX OF SELECTED CORRESPONDENTS

• This index includes the names of selected writers and recipients. Information about persons and subjects is not indexed. Authors listed under additional catalog entries who were not correspondents are not included. See inventory to the collection.
• Key: No symbol = Writer; * = Writer and recipient; ~ = Recipient; fb2 = Folio box 2
• The numbers refer to the folders.
• Brown, Sara E. 74*, 117~
• Channing, William H. fb2
• Cheney, Ednah fb2*, 128*, 143~
• Child, David Lee fb2~
• Clarke, James Freeman fb2~
• Converse, Susan Taylor 74, 75*
• Crocker, Lucretia fb2
• Curtis, Alice T. 129
• Diaz, Abby M. fb2
• Doggett, Kate N. 117
• Emerson, Ellen T. fb2
• Gardner, Isabella S. fb2
• Garrison, William Lloyd fb2
• Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute 161
• Howe, Julia Ward fb2*, 119~
• Kendall, Phebe M. 74, 75*
• Ladd, Mary H. 119
• Lewis, Helen C. 75*
• Livermore, Mary A. fb2
• Macdaniel, F.L. 117~
• Marsh, Mabel 129~, 135*, 163*
• May, Abigail W. fb2
• Parsons, Anna Q.T. fb2
• Peabody, Elizabeth P. fb2*
• Peabody, Lucia M. fb2, 74~, 75*, 115, 128*, 160~
• Perry, Olive A. 139~, 143~, 160~
• Phillips, Wendell fb2
• Read, Anne L. 140~
• Richards, Laura 17
• Ripley, George fb2
• Severance, Caroline M. fb2, 75
• Shrewsberry, Henry L. 128
• Sprague, Julia A. fb2~, 139
• Stantial, Edna L. 132
• Stone, Lucy fb2
• Van Duzen, J.D. 75*
• Ward, Mary Alden fb2, 48, 140
• Wells, Kate G. fb2
• Whittier, John Greenleaf fb2*
• Wolcott, Henrietta S.T. 74~, 75*
• Woolson, Abba G. 74, 75*
• Zakrzewska, Marie E. fb2, 143

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