Letter to Abby Langdon Alger from Mary L. Booth, 1877
Overview
Letter from Mary Louise Booth regarding editing Abby Langdon Alger's translation of Mr. Martin's History from French into English.
Dates
- Creation: 1877
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Abby Langdon Alger, 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 folderLetter from Mary Louise Booth regarding editing Abby Langdon Alger's translation of Mr. Martin's History, a popular history of France from the first revolution to the present time, which they were both translators for.
BIOGRAPHY
Abby Langdon Alger was born in 1850 to William Rounseville Alger, a Boston Unitarian minister. She was an author, ethnologist and translator. Alger died in 1917.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 84-M19
The letter to Abby Langdon Alger from Mary L. Booth was acquired by the Schlesinger Library from Timothy Bakken in February 1984.
Processing Information
Processed: May 2021
By: Amber L. Moore, with assistance from Summer Unsinn.
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.
- 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 Patricia M. King/Schlesinger Library Director’s Fund, Barbara N. Kravitz Fund for the Schlesinger Library, Pforzheimer Fund for the Schlesinger Library, and Sybil Shainwald Fund at the Schlesinger Library.
- EAD ID
- sch01981
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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