About
This collection includes scanned letters, correspondence, and other manuscript items by 19th & 20th Century women writers. Many famous names are to be found inside: Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary Moody Emerson, Elizabeth Stoddard, Julia C. R. Dorr, Willa Cather, and Emma Willard are all represented.
All items are digitized from the original documents, housed at Middlebury Special Collections.
Works
Letter from Emma Willard to Dr. Jonathan A. Allen
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Emma Willard to Louisa Foote
Letter written Emma Willard to Louisa Foote. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Letter from Frances Sargent Lock Osgood to James Thomas Fields
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Fredrika Bremer to Dennis R. Alward
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Gertrude Sears to Anna Q. T. Parsons
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) to Charles K. Gallup
Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott was best-known under her pseudonym Grace Greenwood (which is how she signs this letter)This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) to Hammatt Billings
Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott was best-known by her pseudonym Grace Greenwood, which is how she signs this letter.This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Lilian Whiting to Mr. Marshall
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Lizzie Hoxie to Marianne Dwight Orvis
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Letter from Lucy Larcom to the Editor, New York Independent
This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.