Overview
Correspondence, family genealogies, photographs, and books of banker, educator, historian, and Radcliffe College founder Arthur Gilman.
Dates
- Creation: 1819-1907
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Originals closed; use digital images.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Arthur Gilman as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
4 folders (3 folders, 1 folio+ folder)Collection includes correspondence of Arthur Gilman with his brothers, his children, and others. Letters from his children's caretaker include updates on their health and activities. A letter from Gilman's brother-in-law, Luther Ball, describes a carriage accident involving Gilman's first wife Amy Cooke Ball Gilman. Other letters to Gilman includes family genealogies. This collection also includes two books, The Crystal Gem and Prayers for Children, as well as the extract from an abstract of title to an estate called The Bull in New Buckenham, Norfolk, England.
BIOGRAPHY
Arthur Gilman was born on June 22, 1837, in Alton, Illinois, to Winthrop Sargent Gilman and Abia Swift Lippincott Gilman. Gilman attended schools in St. Louis, Missouri; Lee, Massachusetts; Rye, New York; and New York City. Gilman worked for his father's banking firm from 1857 to 1862. In 1879, Gilman and his second wife, Stella Scott Gilman, co-founded the "Private Collegiate Instruction for Women by Harvard Professors," which become known as the "Harvard Annex." In 1882, it was incorporated as the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women with Elizabeth Cary Agassiz serving as President. In 1894, the "Harvard Annex" was named Radcliffe College. Arthur Gilman served as Secretary from 1879 to 1894, and as Regent from 1894 to1896. In 1886, Gilman founded the Gilman School for Girls, now called the Cambridge School of Weston. Arthur Gilman died in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on December 27, 1909.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: R82-3
The papers of Arthur Gilman were given to the Schlesinger Library by Alexander Doyle in 1981.
Processing Information
Processed: January 1982
By: Eric Nils Lindquist.
Updated and additional description added: July 2020
By: Cat Lea Holbrook.
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Zetlin Sisters Fund and the Jane Rainie Opel '50 Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01803
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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