Scope and Contents
The collection consists of letters by Stone to various people, including her brother William B. Stone; Fanny Baker Ames and Charles Ames; James Freeman Clarke; Lillie Devereux Blake; and Rachel Foster Avery. The letters provide information about her lectures, motherhood, health, her views regarding women using their husbands' names, and fundraising for the suffrage movement. The collection also includes a letter re: Lizzie Borden, with Stone opining that there was insufficient evidence to determine Borden's guilt, and a letter to the editor of The Transcript about Mary A. Livermore. Also included is a letter to Samuel May, in which Stone declines an invitation to lecture, saying that she would be glad to accept "if I could make the preparation and delivering of lectures harmonize at all with my duty towards the wee one, who always needs my care. I know that some mothers do it -- but I cannot." She adds that she would be sad about this if she did not know that her "present work, ranks with the worthiest." In another letter, she tells her correspondent, "Never add Blackwell to my name. If a wife have any character, her own name is enough. No husband would take his wife's name. By the Golden Rule she should not take his."
Dates
- Creation: 1850-1893
- Creation: Majority of material found within 1876-1893
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Original documents closed; use digital objects or microfilm (M-133, reel A18).
Extent
1 folderRepository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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