Agassiz, Elizabeth Cabot Cary, 1822-1907. Papers, 1838-1920: A Finding Aid

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Descriptive Summary

Call No.: A-3
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: ELIZABETH CARY AGASSIZ, 1822-1907
Title: Papers, 1838-1907, 1918-1920
Quantity: 3 boxes, 1 supersize folder
Abstract: Diaries, correspondence, etc., of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, educator and researcher.

Acquisition Information:

Accession number: 51-79

Gift of the estate of Lucy Paton. Received: November, 1951.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Letters, diaries, 1877-1906, and other personal papers of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, wife of Louis Agassiz, President of Radcliffe College, including family letters of other Cary relatives. These papers were used by Miss Lucy Paton, official biographer of Mrs. Agassiz, and include additional material acquired about Mrs. Agassiz and relatives, reviews of the biography, and letters of commendation.

There is related material at the Schlesinger Library; see Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz Papers, 1884-1959 (SC 4) and and Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz Papers, 1879-1978 (SC 99).

ADDITIONAL CATALOG ENTRIES

Agassiz, Louis, 1807-1873

Anderson School of Natural History

Education of women

Fields, Annie

Jewett, Sarah Orne

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Perkins Institute for the Blind

Radcliffe College

Ravenel Harriot H

Paton, Lucy

Sand, George

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Voyages and Travels

Diaries

Cary family

CONTAINER LIST

Box 1: Diaries, 1877-1880, 1892-1906

Boxes 2-3: Papers, 1838-1920

INVENTORY

1 vol.-18 vol. Diaries, January 1, 1877-February 14, 1880. 1892-December 30, 1906.

1-39. Papers: 1838-1920.
- 1. Family letters, 1838-1870. 23 items.
- 2. Family letters, undated. 15 items.
- 3. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. Miscellaneous letters, undated. 20 items.
- 4. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. "Beauty and the Beast" a play. n.d. MSS.
- 5. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. Notebook of poems. n.d. MSS.
- 6. 1840 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS to Doctor S[amuel] Cabot.
- 7. 1842 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. Translation of ? with Ellen in 1842.
- 8. 1847Cary, Thomas G. Jr. T.c. Diary 1847 about the Theatricals.
- 9. 1849-1850 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS to Louis Agassiz. 10 items.
- 10. 1851-1852 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from South Carolina, Washington, New Orleans, etc. 1851/1852. 13 items. See digital image.
- 11. 1854-1857Shaw, Pauline Agassiz. ALS to Sarah Cary. 9 items.
- 12. 1857ca. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS to Mrs. Cary, Sally and Emma. 8 items.
- 13. 1859 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from Europe. 4 items. See digital image.
- 14. 1865 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from Brazil. 6 items.See digital image.
- 15. 1865/1867 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from Brazil. 21 items. See digital image.
- 16. 1865 Papers connected with the Brazilian Expedition. See digital image.
- 17. 1867/1868 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters to Mrs. Cary, Sally and Emma while they were in Europe. See digital image.
- 18. 1870ca. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from Deerfield, Massachusetts and the White Mountains, New Hampshire. 6 items. See digital image.
- 19. 1871-1872 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ..."Hassler" letters. 27 items.
- 20. 1873-1876 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS. 4 items.
- 21. 1873-1875 Papers relating to the Anderson School of Natural Science at Penikese Island, Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts.
- 22. 1893Eliot, Charles W. TL to E.C.A.
- 23. 1894-1895 Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. ALS ...Letters from Europe. 50 items.
- 24. [1899] Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. Notebook, draft letters and addresses: Re. Radcliffe College.
- 25. n.d. Miscellaneous letters to E.C.A. [1890-?] 9 items.
- 26. 1864-1907 Miscellaneous letters to E.C.A. 21 items.
  Includes 2 photos of 1903 comet.
- 27. 1899-1904 Laporte, M. ALS to E.C.A. 7 items.
- 28. 1903 ALS to E.C.A. from the Swiss relatives of Louis Agassiz. 4 items.
- 29. 1903-1905Mettinius, Cecile ALS to E.C.A. 3 items.
- 30. 1892-1907 ALS from grand children.
- 31. 1893-1904 Papers relating to the Perkins Institute - Kindergarten for the Blind.
- 32. n.d. Papers relating to Louis Agassiz.
- 33. 1907 Papers relating to Louis Agassiz's centennial appreciation of his life and work.
- 34. Photographs of Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Cary Cottage.
  FILED IN PHOTOGRAPH DRAWER.
- 35. Agassiz, Elizabeth Cary. MSS on the Cary family; also miscellaneous letters connected with the Cary and Perkins families.
- 36. P1 Miscellaneous material acquired by Miss Paton. 1907-1921.
- 37. P2 Letters of appreciation to Miss Paton for her biography. 1919-1920.
- 38. P3 Book reviews of Biography of Mrs. Agassiz.
- 39. S1 Sand, George. Letters to Mme. Th. Blanc. p.79-94. MSS copies.

Supersize piece filed in mapcase: A tribute to Mrs. Louis Agassiz for her exhibit "Lessons in Natural History" at the World's Columbian Commission, Chicago,1893.

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