| A-110 ALMA LUTZ, 1890-1973 Collection, 1775-1943, n.y., n.d. 1 file box, 1 folio folder Reprocessed: January 1986 Accession numbers: 55-82, 56-89, 370, 430, 1164, By: Bert Hartry 70-12, 70-61 The papers in this collection were purchased by Alma Lutz and given to the Schlesinger Library in 1955, 1956, 1958, 1961, 1962, 1967, and 1970. The collection was reprocessed and microfilmed with the support of the Friends of the Schlesinger Library. BIOGRAPHY Alma Lutz became involved in the woman's suffrage movement when she returned home to North Dakota after graduating from Vassar College (1912). She continued to work for equal rights for women all her life and was the author of many articles and books, including Created Equal: A Biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony. AL was an active member of the National Woman's Party, the Massachusetts Committee for the Equal Rights Amendment, and many other organizations. During 1951-73 she served on the Advisory Committee of the Schlesinger Library. For additional biographical information, see MC 182, the Alma Lutz papers in the Schlesinger Library, and the AL biography file; see also Who Was Who in America (1974-76). SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection consists of letters, and a few other items, purchased by AL and reflects her interest in women in American history, particularly those active in the abolition and suffrage movements. The items in the collection are arranged alphabetically by writer, and chronologically when there is more than one item by the same writer. The inventory names the recipient of each letter, when known, and the index that follows the inventory includes the names of all recipients. In the inventory each letter except short notes, fragments valuable only as autographs, and items with trivial contents is described as follows: name or title of recipient, date, topics discussed. Letters of one or more pages with either the salutation or the signature missing have been listed as fragments. Dates and/or other information have been written on some items by persons unknown; some dates and other information have been supplied by researchers. In organizing the material the processor accepted and used this information. Everything added by the processor is in square brackets, but some dates and other information in square brackets were previously added by persons unknown. The bulk of the letters are ALsS (autograph letters signed); only a few are TLsS (typed letters signed). There are typed transcripts of some of the letters; these were prepared by persons unknown. Corrections, some by persons unknown, others by the processor, appear on many of these transcripts. The researcher is cautioned that the transcripts are not always accurate. Three folders of papers that were in A-110 (#64, 69-70) have been moved to MC 182. This material (mainly Florence Kitchelt and Rose Arnold Powell correspondence re: Equal Rights Amendment, National Woman's Party, and Susan B. Anthony) derives from Alma Lutz's work with the National Woman's Party rather than her autograph collecting. Two portions of the collection were previously filmed and have not been refilmed with this collection. The Lydia Maria Child letters (#8-9) were filmed as part of the microfiche edition of her correspondence (Kraus Microform, 1980), available at many libraries; at the Schlesinger Library the call number is Mf-3. (The folder numbers on the Child fiches are those of the original A-110 inventory.) The Mary Grew diary (in #12) was filmed as part of the History of Women microfilm project (Research Publications, Inc., 1976); the call number at the Schlesinger Library is M-59, reel 973, no. M13. Additional catalog entries (a card for each of the following appears in the card catalog): Adams, Abigail (Smith), 1744-1818 Adams, Hannah, 1755-1831 Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 Authors' Guild of American Women Avery, Rachel (Foster), 1858-1919 Barton, Clara, 1821-1912 Beecher, Catharine Esther, 1800-1878 Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 Blackwell, Antoinette (Brown), 1825-1921 Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910 Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909 Bowring, Sir John, 1792-1872 Catt, Carrie (Lane) Chapman, 1859-1947 Chapman, Maria (Weston), 1806-1885 Child, Lydia Maria (Francis), 1802-1880 Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973 Crandall, Prudence, 1803-1890 Dall, Caroline Wells (Healey), 1822-1912 Dodge, Mary Abigail [pseud. Gail Hamilton], 1833-1896 Elliott, Maud (Howe), 1854-1948 Fern, Fanny, see Parton, Sara Payson (Willis) Foster, Abigail (Kelley), 1810-1887 Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850 Furness, William Henry, 1802-1896 Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879 Gerry, Elbridge, 1744-1814 Gilman, Charlotte Anna (Perkins) Stetson, 1860-1935 Grew, Mary, 1813-1896 Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873 Harper, Ida (Husted), 1859-1931 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911 Holley, Marietta, 1836-1926 Hooker, Isabella (Beecher), 1822-1907 Hopper, Isaac Tatem, 1771-1852 Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue, 1830-1908 Howe, Julia (Ward), 1819-1910 Hunt, Harriot Kezia, 1805-1875 Hutchinson, Abigail Jemima, 1829-1892 Johnson, Adelaide, 1859-1955 Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889 Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893 Lippincott, Sara Jane (Clarke), 1832-1904 Livermore, Mary Ashton (Rice), 1820-1905 Long, John Davis, 1838-1915 Longfellow, Alice Mary, 1850-1928 Love, Alfred Henry, 1830-1913 McKim, James Miller, 1810-1874 Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876 Owen, Robert L Parton, Sara Payson (Willis), 1811-1872 Philleo, Prudence Crandall, see Crandall, Prudence Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884 Pillsbury, Parker, 1809-1898 Prang, Mary Amelia (Dana) Hicks, 1836-1927 Purvis, Robert Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973 Sanger, Margaret (Higgins), 1879-1966 Severance, Caroline Maria (Seymour), 1820-1914 Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 Sigourney, Lydia (Huntley), 1791-1865 Smith, Abigail (Adams), 1765-1813 Smith, Elizabeth Oakes (Prince), 1806-1893 Solis-Cohen, Solomon, 1857-1948 Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 Wallace, Zerelda Gray (Sanders), 1817-1901 Warren, Mercy (Otis), 1728-1814 Washington, Booker Taliaferro, 1856-1915 Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895 Weston, Caroline Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 Adams, John, 1735-1826 American Anti-Slavery Society Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820-1906 Authors Baldwin, Hannah Baldwin, William Booth, Mary Louise, 1831-1889 Bowles, Ada Chastina, 1836-1928 Boyer, Ida Porter, 1859- ? Claflin, William, 1818-1905 Clarke, James Freeman, 1810-1888 Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 Colby, Clara Dorothy (Bewick), 1846-1916 Diaries Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1848-1916 Garrison, Helen Eliza (Benson), 1811-1876 Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1840-1907 Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872 Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887 Lecturers Loring, Ellis Gray, 1803-1858 May, Samuel Joseph, 1797-1871 Mott, Lucretia (Coffin), 1793-1880 Mott, Lydia Pankhurst, Christabel Harriette, 1880-1958 Pankhurst, Emmeline (Goulden), 1857-1928 Plummer, Charles H Sanborn, Franklin Benjamin, 1831-1917 Sargent, Mary Elizabeth (Fiske) SlaveryAnti-slavery movements Spiritualism Stanton, Elizabeth (Cady), 1815-1902 Suffrage Temperance Tubman, Harriet, -1913 Voyages and travels19th century Wallcut, Robert Folger Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916 Wells, Charlotte (Fowler), 1814-1901 Whiting [Eliza Rose (Gray)?] Woman's ministerial conference Women's rights World's Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840 MICROFILM OF COLLECTION -The pages of some items were numbered by the processor (in square brackets) to aid the microfilmer, the proofreader, and researchers. Blank pages were not numbered. -All reels were proofread by the processor and corrections were made where necessary. These corrections may disrupt the sequence of frame numbers. -Some items in the collection were difficult to film due to such problems as flimsy paper with text showing through or faded or smudged writing. The film was carefully produced and proofread to insure that these items are as legible as possible. -There are some letters with the text on the two inside pages written in two different directions, and some letters that have the final lines of text and the signature on page one. In these cases letters were microfilmed as they appear; pages were not turned and first pages were not refilmed. REEL GUIDE For a list of the contents of A-110, see the inventory that follows. When requesting microfilm, please use the microfilm number and the reel number. For Mf-3, see The Collected Correspondence of Lydia Maria Child 1817-1880, Patricia G. Holland and Milton Meltzer, Editors, Kraus Microform, New York; the call number at the Schlesinger Library is 322.44/C53h. A-110 M-133,reel #1-7, 10-21.......................................A12 #22-30............................................A13 #8-9............................................Mf-3 #12 (Mary Grew diary only)...........M-59, reel 973,no.M13 - Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
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