Lydia Maria Child Papers
Index of correspondence
- David Child to George Kimball (January 1835): Mexico project and new laws in the South.
- Maria to Louisa L. (May 1836): Acquisition of Texas and Arkansas.
- Maria to Louisa L. (April 1839): Business problems; Irish girl; "lost pleasure" in Anti-Slavery; Lewis Tappan.
- Maria to Anna L. (Jun. 1840): Pleasures of countryside; gender divisions.
- Maria to Anna L. (August 1840): Irish girl's language and upbringing.
- Maria to Anna L. (December 1840): English politics; "our colored man" & Thanksgiving.
- Maria to Anna L. (January 1841): "the spirit land"
- Maria to Ellis L. (May 1841): Editing paper and salary; about "N. Organization."
- Maria to Ellis L. (Jun. 1841): Dislikes job; Criticizes Democrats: Approves of Garrison vs. "New Organization."
- Maria to Louisa L. (December 1841): Liberty Bell; Anti-Slavery Scrapbook.
- Maria to Anna L. (December 1841):
- Maria to Anna L. (February 1842): Excursion to Staten Island & John's charity.
- Maria to Ellis L. (May 1842): Garrison's article & New York mobs; dislikes Boston "perpetual agitation" & Philadelphia "milk & water abolitionists"; Standard subscriptions.
- Maria to Louisa L. (December 1842): Avoids large gatherings; meeting Samuel Colt.
- Maria to Louisa L. (January 1843): Finds position for niece in a Community; Avoids associations of men; Mr. Page.
- Maria to Louisa L. (February 1843): Not follow David; Give up Standard; Emerson.
- Maria to Louisa L. (May 1843): John rescues girl from Tombs; New York Letters; Angelina Grimké.
- Maria to Anna L. (August 1843): Beauty of city; Quaker girl.
- Maria to James Munroe & Co. (May 1843): Publishing New York Letters.
- Maria to Louisa L. (August 1843): Housework complaints; likes New York; dislikes Calvinists.
- Maria to Louisa L. (October 1843): Annon flowers; New World; Letters selling well.
- Maria to Anna L. (December 1843): Rescue boy from Tombs for Christmas.
- Maria to Anna L. (January 1844): Rejects beach vacation.
- Maria to Louisa L. (June 1844): Ole Bull & Friend Hopper; Anna Parson.
- Maria to Anna L. (September 1844): Favors soul & New York over machine & Boston.
- Maria to Anna L. (October 1844): Promenading Broadway; Ole Bull concerts; free nature.
- Maria to Louisa L. (October 1844): Refuses travel and conventions; visits Singsing.
- Maria to Anna L. (December 1844): Christ Child selling; seeing Ole Bull & Margaret Fuller.
- Maria to Anna L. (January 1845): Broadway Journal; Ole Bull.
- Maria to Anna L. (February 1845): Description Fuller's house; equates death with marriage.
- Maria to Anna L.(August 1845): Columbian Magazine; volumes for children; composing.
- Maria to Louisa L.(December 1845): Die of science, correctness, wealth & show of Boston.
- Maria to Anna L. (December 1845): Fuller's literary set; John agent of Prison Association.
- Maria to Louisa L. (September 1846): Fan mail; hermitage; prefers Catholicism and freedom.
- Maria to Anna L. (September 1846): Fashion; artlessness "above" popular taste.
- Maria to Anna L. (January 1847): Jewelry.
- Maria to Ellis & Louisa L. (May 1849): Limited view from rich; Astor Place Riots.
- Maria to Ellis L. (June 1849): French out of Italy; riot presence; Mendelssohn (Jew) & Margaret Fuller as Pope.
- Maria to Louisa L. (June 1849): Right to be damned; Befriends Dolores who sells scarves.
- Maria to Louisa L. (November 1849): "Dread... reformers"; Property and sex laws; Dolores.
- Maria to Louisa L. (December 1849): Storm.
- Maria to Ellis L. (February 1850): Girls Book; "small female minds both sexes"; husband's creditors and her rights.
- Maria to Ellis L. (February 1850): Money as priority; dislike "respectable Puritanical".
- Maria to Ellis L. (March 1850): Spirits' education; Melodrama and Mendelssohn.
- Maria to Ellis L. (May 1850): Searching for peaceful place; Pages to Liverpool.
- Anna & Ellis L. to Louisa L. (July 1850): Complain about Calvinist preaching; travels.
- Maria to Anna L. (November 1850): Visit.
- Maria to Ellis L. (December 1852): Charles Sumner; Catherine Beecher; Garrison; Lord Henry Stuart.
- Maria to Ellis L. (August 1853): Reject Jewett's offer to republish.
- David & Maria to Ellis L. (November 1854): Crichtlow as rogue; Buddhist tracts.
- Maria to Ellis L. (January 1855): Crichtlow; against writing for periodicals.
- Maria to Ellis L. (May 1855): Spirits speaking; Swedenborg & Dr. Chandler.
- Maria to Ellis L. (June 1855): Mrs. Martineau in Paris; Mrs. Shaw in Europe.
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1855): Engages in phrenology of reactionary woman (& man).
- David & Maria to L. (December 1855): Crichtlow; Spirits & Evangelists; Opponants attack her as woman.
- Maria to Ellis L. (July 1856): Women's suffrage; rails against men; problems in Missouri.
- Maria to Louisa L. (October 1856): Activism for Kansas; Buchanan or Frémont; urgency.
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1856): Father dieing.
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1856): On death father.
- Maria to Ellis L. (December 1856): On father's will.
- Maria to Ellis L. (January 1857): Enjoys music, perfume, and being tipsy.
- Maria to Ellis L. (July 1857):
- Maria to Ellis L. (September 1857): Short magazine story.
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1857):
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1857): Niece & "all the progressive movts of the day"; Plato & socialism; Ellis as "benigted modern".
- Maria to Ellis L. (November 1857): Louisa ill.
- Maria to Ellis L. (December 1857): Wants Florida; Baby girl asserts her wits vs. baby boy.
- Maria to unidentified recipient (January 1859): Complains "modern affectation" & intellect over moral sentiments.
- Maria to Oliver Johnson ASS (December 1859): John Brown's execution and burial.
- Maria to William Cutler (July, 1862): Public Enemy; higher law than slavery; free institutions/labor; problem of masters; laissez faire on social equality; English and Hindoos.
- Maria to Anna L. (July 1871): European feminists; Suffrage as efficient & educational; Harmony of sexes; Prussian ambition, Communism, and Versailles Jesuits.
- Maria to Anna L? (October 1871?): Chicago fire & KKK; Grant & South; Tweed Ring; German feminists; free labor.
- Maria to Anna L. (November 1877): Birthday.
- Lorings? (August 1894):
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- Maria to Anna L. (May, n.y.; NY): Hopper's Quaker conscience.
- Maria to Louisa L. n.d. [July 1843]: "I become... bigotted Swedenborgian"
- Maria to Louisa L. (July, n.y.; NY): Religious book; ackn. her depravity.
- Maria to Anna L. (August, n.y.; NY): City people on vacation.
- Maria to Anna L. (December, n.y.; NY): on a "citizen of the world" as "spirit of the age".
- Maria to Anna L. n.d. (NY): Never come to Boston again.
- Maria to Anna L. n.d. (NY): Giving New Year presents to poor.
- Maria to Louisa L. (July 4, n.y.; NY): Dolores giving Spanish lessons in city; attacks statutes.
- Maria to Louisa L. (September Newton): Work for poor; Dolores likes Ellis & learns English.
- Maria to Louisa L. n.d.
- Maria to Louisa L. n.d.: Distrusts David in California.
- Maria to Ellis L. (Wayland):
- Maria to Ellis L. (August n.y.): Biography on Mr. Hopper.
- Maria to Louisa L. (July, NY): "I shall be glad when independence is over"
- Maria to unidentified recipient n.d. [April, 1831]: School uniform and worship.
- Maria (scraps): Christmas boy "obtained a good place in the city".
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