Overview
Letter from Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz to Alice Norton Adams, 1903, and letter from Adam's daughter describing her family history, 1989.
Dates
- Creation: 1903
- Creation: 1989
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Alice Norton Adams 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
1 folderThe Alice Norton Adams papers contain a note from Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz, wife of Louis Agassiz and a founder and first president of Radcliffe College, inviting Adams to join Agassiz at her summer house in Nahant, Massachusetts, in 1903. Also included is a copy of a letter from Adams's daughter, Harriet Dyer Adams, giving information about her family, 1989.
BIOGRAPHY
Alice (Norton) Adams was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, in 1866, the daughter of Harriet Arvilla Norton and Franklin Burroughs Norton. Her father attended some of Louis Agassiz's lectures in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the late 1840s. Adams was very interested in geography and geology and taught school in Evanston, Illinois, before her marriage to zoologist Charles Christopher Adams in 1908. They had one child, Harriet Dyer Adams. Alice Norton Adams died September 1, 1931, in Albany, New York.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 89-M103
The papers of Alice Norton Adams were given to the Schlesinger Library by her daughter, Harriet Dyer Adams, in June 1989.
Processing Information
Processed: July 1990
By: Jessica Gill
Updated and additional description added: February 2021
By: Paula Aloisio, with assistance from Susan Earle
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.
Subject
- 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 gifts from the Radcliffe College Class of 1957 Schlesinger Library Fund and the Gerard Schlesinger Library Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01948
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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