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Call No.: A-126
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Sallie Joy White, 1852?-1909
Title: Papers, 1828-1936
Quantity: 2.59 linear ft. (4 file boxes, 1 folio box, 1 folio+ folder)
Abstract: Correspondence, clippings, photographs, etc., of Sallie Joy White, first woman journalist in Boston.

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BIOGRAPHY

Sallie Joy was the first woman journalist in Boston when she became a special reporter for the Boston Post in 1870 to cover Woman Suffrage Conventions and related activities. In 1874, Sallie Joy married the singer, Henry Keith White, Jr., but domestic concerns interrupted her career only briefly. Until shortly before her death, she advised on fashion and household problems, making famous the pseudonym Penelope Penfeather, and continued to report woman's rights activities and local news, particularly for the Boston Herald.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

Sallie Joy White's papers consist of family correspondence, letters received from notables of the day, and volumes of clippings of her newspaper articles and columns. In addition, the collection includes papers of her daughter Grace Eliner Joy White (Mrs. Chester Pratt).

There is additional material at the Schlesinger Library; see Sallie Joy White Additional papers, 1881-1935 (inclusive), 1881-1908 (bulk)(M-146).

CONTAINER LIST

• Box 1: folders 1-34, volume 1
• Box 2: volumes 2, 6-10
• Box 3: volumes 11-12, 14-15
• Box 4: volumes 3, 13
• Box 5: volumes 4-5

INVENTORY

• 1-14: Personal papers and family correspondence.
  • 1. Sallie Joy White. Obituaries, March 25, 1909; article re: SJW, 1928; also obituary of her mother, Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth (Joy) Hammond
  • 2. Sallie Joy White. Eulogy; also essay re: SJW by granddaughter, Sallie P. Talbot, n.d.
  • 3. S.J.W. 4 photographs and one folio+ photo.
  • 4. ALS S.D. Joy to B & S Putney, Sept. 16, 1828 includes letter from Clarissa Gale to Dear Cousin (whole letter addressed to Mr. Ira Gale, Shoreham)
  • 5. S.J.W. 8 ALS to her mother, Mrs. Rhoda B. Joy, some dated 1868 incl. typed copy of 6 of the letters
  • 6. Henry Keith White ALS from Edward Remenyi, Feb. 3, 1880
  • 7. ALS to "Dear Being" (S.J.W.) from H.S.D., Sept. 8, 1880
  • 8. 2 ALS to Grace Elinor Joy White from "Grandma" (Mrs. Rhoda Joy), 1892 and n.d.
  • 9. S.J.W. to Grace Eliner Joy White, 1889-1891
  • 10. S.J.W. to Grace Elinor Joy White, 1892-1894
  • 11. S.J.W. to Grace Elinor Joy White, 1895-1896
  • 12. S.J.W. to Grace Elinor Joy White, 1897-1898
  • 13. S.J.W. to Grace Elinor Joy White, n.d.
  • 14. S.J.W. to "Dear Girls" (Grace Elinor Joy White and Elizabeth Hammond White) some dated 1891-1898

• 15-24: Letters received by Sallie Joy White.
  • 15. Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1, n.d.; Ames, Oliver, 1831-1895 1, 1887; Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906 1, 1881; Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887 1, 1878; Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 1, 1908; Blake, Mary Elizabeth, 1840-1907 2, 1887, 1890
  • 16. Claflin, William, 1818-1905 1, 1878; Curtis, George William 1, 1881; Dix, Beulah Marie (Mrs. George Flebbe) 2, 1906, n.d.; Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes, 1831-1905 1, 1874; Elliott, Maud Howe 1, 1893
  • 17. Fawcett, Edgar, 1867-1904 1, n.d.; Field, Mary Katherine Keemle (Kate), 1839-1896 1, 1884, also picture; Fiske, John, 1842-1901 2, 1885, 1887; Freeman, Mary Eleanor (Wilkins), 1852-1930 1, 1902; Gilette, William, 1855-1937 1, 1888
  • 18. Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1861-1920 2, 1887, 1889; Hale, Lucretia Peabody, 1820-1900 1, n.d.; Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931 1, 1905; Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 1, 1907; Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894 3, 1879 and n.d.
  • 19. Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910 1, 1890; Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 poem, 1861; Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1849-1909 2, 1887; Liebe, Terese = 1, n.d.; Livermore, Mary Ashten Rice, 1820-1905 1, n.d.; Long, John Davis, 1838-1915 1, 1898; Miller, Cincinnatus Hiner (Joaquin), 1839-1913 1, n.d.
  • 20. Moulton, Ellen Louise Chandler, 1835-1908 1, n.d. also "A Toast to Sallie Joy White" 1891; Palmer, George Herbert, 1842-1933 2, 1894, n.d.; Perry, Nora, 1831-1896 2, 1887, 1892
  • 20. Redpath, James, 1833-1891 1, 1885; Roche, James Jeffrey, 1847-1908 2, 1887; Rudersdorff, Ermina 1, n.d.; Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 1, 1887
  • 21. Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 1, nd; Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 1, 1887; Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927 1, 1871; West, Julia Houston 1, n.d.; Whiting, Lilian 1, 1891; Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train, 1824-1906 1, 1887; Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898 1, 1897; Winslow, William Copley, 1840-1925 1, 1889
  • 22. Letters received by Sallie Joy White, 1882-1906
  • 23. Letters received by Sallie Joy White, n.d.
  • 24. Autographs, incl. Rudyard Kipling and Anna Dickinson

• 25-29: Sallie Joy White. Miscellaneous
  • 25. New England Woman's Press Association; breakfast in honor of Dr. Amelia B. Edwards, 1889
  • 26. Sallie Joy White's 21st anniversary in journalism, 1891
  • 27. Sallie Joy White elected Vice-President, International League of Press Clubs, Jan. 20, 1892
  • 28. Miscellaneous articles (by S.J.W.?)
  • 29. Memorabilia

• 30-34: Grace Elinor Joy (White) Pratt
  • 30. G.E.J.W. Miscellaneous correspondence, personal papers, etc. 1890-1936
  • 31. G.E.J.W. Letters received from notables.; Bangs, John Kendrick, 1862-1922 1, 1894; Carrington, Henry BeeBee, 1824-1912 2, 1910; Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1, 1894; Hale, Philip Leslie, 1865-1931 1, 1917; Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 2 letters to Mr. Pratt, 1916; Todd, Mabel Loomis, 1856-1932 1, 1909
  • 32. Letters from Publishers, incl Robert Bridges, Henry M. Alden, Elizabeth Jordan, 1894-1922
  • 33. Poetry by G.E.J.W.
  • 34. Poetry, author unknown

• 1v. Volume of clippings of stories, notices, etc. written by Sallie Joy White while still in her teens and published in local newspapers

• 2v. Newspapers clippings, mostly from Boston Post; incl. her first article, re roller skating, also re Vermont Suffrage Convention, March 1870; articles re fashions; also some earlier articles from other papers

• 3v. Clippings of House and Home Papers, 1870- (oversize)

• 4v. Clippings from the Boston Times and Boston Post, 1872-1877 re famous women, fashions, North End Mission, suffrage; Column - Woman's Kingdom; column - Household Chats by a happy young wife; also story by Henry K. White, Jr.

• 5v. Clippings re concerts, artists, etc. 1873-1881 stories re Artist's Guild, 1880-1881

• 6v. MS of Boston Letters, Sept. 15, 1877 - June 14, 1878; also some accounts.
  Loose pages removed and placed in following folder.

• 7v-8v. The Artist's Guild, 2 v. membership books with signatures of members; Guild was founded April 1880, Henry Keith White, manager

• 9v. Clippings, some dated 1888 re Helen Keller; death of Mrs. Alfred Heminway; other notable women column - Fashion's Mirror

• 10v. Clippings, variety of subjects, 1889-1903

• 11v. Clippings of As Penelope Sees It, v. 1, Aug. 1 - Oct. 22, 1904

• 12v. Clippings of As Penelope Sees It, v. 2, Oct. 24 - Dec. 31, 1904

• 13v. Clippings of In Confidence with Penelope, Sunday Herald, Magazine Section Jan. 29 - July 16, 1905

• 14v. Sarah L. Joy, account book

• 15v. Sarah L. Joy, address book

Additional catalog entries

SEPARATION RECORD

The following items have been removed from the collection and transferred to Fogg Art Museum, drawing Dept.:

• Two cartoons by Frank Millett and Homer Davenport