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Box 2

 Container

Contains 81 Results:

Kemble, Fanny, 1809-1893. A.N.S. to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; [Boston?], [ca. 1848–1893]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 73
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Wants him to know she will be at the Hall at the usual hour in order to give a reading. 1 s. (1 p.) Old folder #: 76

Dates: [ca. 1848–1893]

King, Grace Elizabeth, 1852-1932. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Oxford, 21 August 1892

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 74
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for his kind appreciation of her work and extending an invitation to visit her family in New Orleans if he should be there. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 77.

Dates: 21 August 1892

Larcom, Lucy, 1824-1893. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Beverly, Massachusetts, 19 August 1889

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 75
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Referring to a request of his to use a poem to Houghton Mifflin Company. Expressing pleasure that he reads her poetry. 1 s. (2 p.) Old folder #: 78.

Dates: 19 August 1889

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926. A.N.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Concord, Mass., 2 November 1867

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 76
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for sending her a song. 1 s. (1 p.) Old folder #: 59

Dates: 2 November 1867

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; New York, 1 February 1872

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 77
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Telling him of the plans of herself and her husband to live in Concord, N.H. 1 s. (3 p.) Old folder #: 60.

Dates: 1 February 1872

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926. A.L.S. to Mrs. [  ] Mackay; Concord, Massachusetts, 9 May [ca. 1865–1909]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 78
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for the flowers he brought to her on Saturday and telling him what she did with them. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 61.

Dates: 9 May [ca. 1865–1909]

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; New York, 13 October 1899

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 79
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Telling him that the mottoes in the library at Wayside had not been put there by her father, but by her brother and a boarding school mistress who had rented the house. Speaking of the Free Home for Incurable Cancer where she now lives. 2 s. (9 p.) Old folder #: 62.

Dates: 13 October 1899

Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; New York, 8 July [ca. 1870–1887]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 80
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for sending an ode in appreciation of an article in the Critic, June 18, on American literature. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 79.

Dates: 8 July [ca. 1870–1887]

Lazarus, Emma, 1849-1887. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; New York, 4 November 1876

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 81
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for his generous and helpful criticism of an unpublished play. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 80.

Dates: 4 November 1876

Lea, Florence P. A.N.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Washington, DC, 26 January 1891

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 82
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Asking permission to use a poem of his in a compilation. 1 s. (2 p.) Old folder #: 81.

Dates: 26 January 1891

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Melrose, Mass., 17 February 1882

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 83
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Thanking him for his clever buying of books for "Harvard Annex"; confessing her disgust at the welcome given Oscar Wilde in Chicago and Boston, and telling of refusing to receive Whitman's poems as a gift through the mail for fear of being arrested. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 82.

Dates: 17 February 1882

Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Burlington, Iowa, 24 March 1883

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 84
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

In answer to a letter of his, agreeing in his unwillingness to apply part of the Child Fund to aid the endorsement of the "Revolution"; asking that part of the fund be used to circulate "Common Sense" and that part be given as a contribution to the "Annex Fund" to hasten the opening of Harvard to women. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 83.

Dates: 24 March 1883

Longfellow, Alice M. (Alice Mary), 1850-1928. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Manchester, Mass., 13 August 1885

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 85
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Regarding a contribution and the appointment of a committee to take charge of gifts. 1 s. (2 p.) Old folder #: 84.

Dates: 13 August 1885

McCarthy, Charlotte. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Westgate on Sea, England, May 1900

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 86
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Regretting that she had been unable to see the Misses O'Reilly about whom Mr. Higginson had sent a card. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 85.

Dates: May 1900

McChesney, Dora Greenwell, 1871-1912. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Walthamstow, Essex, 7 July 1897

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 87
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Regarding the gift of one of her books to Higginson's daughter. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 86.

Dates: 7 July 1897

Manley, Lydia. A.N.S. to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; Boston, 15 July 1899

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 88
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Sending a letter of introduction from Mr. Coleridge and saying that she and her sister will call on the next Monday. 1 s. (2 p.) Old folder #: 87.

Dates: 15 July 1899

Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876.  A.L.S. to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; Tynemouth, England, 21 April [ca. 1848–1876]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 89
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Referring to an expressed desire on his part to consult with her about a book he is writing; asking him to visit her, explaining about the condition of her health, etc. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 88.

Dates: 21 April [ca. 1848–1876]

Meakin, Annette M. B. A.L.S. to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; London, 21 June 1904

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 90
Call Number: MS P.91.37
Scope and Contents

Thanking him for sending her "Woman and the Alphabet," discussing the present state of the woman suffrage movement. 1 s. (4 p.) Old folder #: 89.

Dates: 21 June 1904

Miller, Harriet Mann, 1831-1918. A.L.S. to Thomas Wentworth Higginson; Brooklyn, 22 December 1891

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 91
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Thanking him for having written an article in defense of woman suffrage in the "Last Bazar." 1 s. (3 p.) Old folder #: 90.

Dates: 22 December 1891

Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1835-1908. A.N.S. to [Thomas Wentworth Higginson]; [n.p.], [ca. 1848–1908]

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 92
Call Number: MS P.91.37
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Four separate cards; changing the date of an engagement; giving him requested information on Michael Field; thanking him for a letter, etc. 4 s. (9 p.) Old folder #: 91.

Dates: [ca. 1848–1908]