Overview
Correspondence, articles, etc., of Mary Ritter Beard, historian, feminist, and author.
Dates
- Creation: 1935-1958
Creator
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 (Person)
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Mary Ritter Beard is held by the President and Fellows of Harvard College for the Schlesinger Library. 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
.83 linear feet (2 file boxes)This collection consists largely of correspondence regarding the attempt to establish the World Center for Women's Archives. Letters to and from Mary Ritter Beard and others (see index) concern endorsements by organizations and individuals, financial support, donations of papers, projects for the archives, and research inquiries. Also included are letters to Beard by Mary Milbank Brown regarding matriarchy, 1948-1951, and typescripts by Beard, undated; articles and speeches by Beard and others; newsletters from interested organizations; and clippings about accomplishments of women.
It is not known whether folder headings are those of the donor. Information added by the processors is in square brackets.
BIOGRAPHY
Mary Ritter Beard, feminist and historian, was born on August 5, 1876, the daughter of Narcissa (Lockwood) and Eli Foster Ritter. She met fellow historian Charles Austin Beard while attending DePauw University; they were married in 1900.
Beard was concerned with recovering the role of women in history. In the 1930s and early 1940s, she sought to establish a World Center for Women's Archives, but the project failed due to a lack of financial support. For further biographical information, see Notable American Women: the Modern Period (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980).
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 51-41, 88-M52
The papers of Mary Ritter Beard were given to the Schlesinger Library by Mary Ritter Beard in 1951, and by her grandson, Detlev Vagts, in 1988.
CONTAINER LIST
- Box 1: 1-18
- Box 2: 19-33
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS: Recipients of Letters from Mary Beard
- Adams, Randolph 9
- Andrews, Alice E. 19
- Andrews, Fannie Fern (Phillips) 19
- Bernheim, Mary M. 19
- Bethune, Mary (McLeod) 17
- Blegen, Theodore C. 13
- Borden, Elizabeth 13
- Bryan, Mary de Garmo 19
- Catt, Carrie (Lane) Chapman 10, 26
- Conant, James B. 30
- Cooper, Mrs. ? 17
- Cronkite, Bernice Veazy (Brown) 30
- Cushman, Nancy (Cox) McCormack 19
- Deloria, Ella 19
- Drake, Dorothy M. 9
- Duane, Arden H. 17
- Fages, Isabel Lopez 19
- Fisher, Mrs. Clyde see Te Ata
- Ford, Guy Stanton 13
- Frysinger, Grace Elizabeth 19
- Gay, Jan 19
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson 28
- Goldmark, Pauline Dorothea 19
- Gridley, Marion 19
- Griggs, Lillian B. 9, 15
- Hansl, Eva Elise vom Baur 19, 30
- Hinckley, Georgiana Ames 16, 30
- Johnson, Julia M. 30
- Jones, Gwladys Webster 20
- Jordan, Wilbur Kitchener 2, 13, 30
- Knight, Mabel F. 19
- Leger, Eva M. 20
- Lynch, Clara 19
- Marble, Sarah A. 19
- Melin, Jeanne 12
- Mitchell, Juanita Jackson 17
- Moore, Martha 28
- Owens, Helen (Brewster) 24
- Petrides, Frederique 19
- Porter, Dorothy B. 17
- Richards, Elizabeth 30
- Sabin, Florence Rena 24
- St. Clair, Sadie Daniel 17
- St. Wittlin, Alma 19
- Sauer, Mary Elmore 24
- Saunders, Mira C. 19
- Shryock, Richard H. 15
- Sprague, Marjorie 30
- Stonestreet, Henrietta 19
- Stroh, M. Margaret 19
- Tantaquidgeon, Gladys 19
- Te Ata 19
- Thurman, Sue (Bailey) 17
- White, Marjorie 19
- Yellis, Elise M. 16
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS: Writers of Letters to Mary Beard
- Abbott, Grace 18
- Adams, Randolph 9
- Allen, Florence Ellinwood 18, 28
- Allen, Mary M. 20
- Anderson, Mary 18
- Andrews, Alice E. 19
- Andrews, Fannie Fern (Phillips) 19
- Atherton, Gertrude 10
- Atwater, Helen W. 18
- Baker, Florence Murphy 16
- Banister, Marion 18
- Barber, Lucy H. 18
- Batchelder, Grace E. 10
- Bernheim, Mary M. 19
- Bethune, Mary (McLeod) 17
- Blackwell, Alice Stone 10
- Blair, Emily (Newell) 18
- Blatch, Harriot Eaton (Stanton) 9
- Blegen, Theodore C. 13
- Blodgett, George W. 14
- Bogue, Anna 30
- Borden, Elizabeth 19
- Breckinridge, Sophonisba (Preston) 18
- Brinton, Ellen Starr 10
- Brown, Mary Louise 18
- Brown, Mary Milbank 31-32
- Bruere, Martha (Bensley) 29
- Brunauer, Esther Caukin 15
- Buck, Pearl Comfort (Sydensticker) 18, 27
- Cassmore, Melvin 18
- Catt, Carrie (Lane) Chapman 10, 26
- Chapman, Mrs. John W. 30
- Coen, Helen M. 15
- Collins, Mary Love 18
- Cotton, Elizabeth 9, 18, 30
- Cushman, Nancy (Cox) McCormack 19, 30
- Davis, Pauline Sabin 18
- Day, Elizabeth 28
- DeForest, Charlotte B. 18
- Deutsch, Babette 18
- Doerschuk, Beatrice 30
- Drake, Dorothy M. 9
- Duane, Arden H. 17
- Edinger, Dora 19
- Evans, Alice 30
- Fages, Isabel Lopez 19
- Fisher, Dorothy (Canfield) 18
- Ford, Guy Stanton 13
- Forman, Caroline L. 18
- Foster, Grace R. 28
- Frank, Florence Kiper 19
- Frysinger, Grace Elizabeth 19
- Gay, Jan 19
- Ghilkee, Margaret 18
- Gilbert, Amy 9
- Gilbert, Katherine 15
- Gilbreth, Lillian Evelyn (Moller) 18
- Gilman, Elisabeth 18
- Girts, Maxine 18
- Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson 28
- Goldmark, Pauline Dorothea 18
- Goodsell, Willystein 18
- Goodykoontz, Bess 18
- Greeley, Louise Troxell 18
- Greenbie, Marjorie 30
- Gridley, Marion 18
- Griggs, Lillian B. 15
- Grove, Elsa Butler 19
- Hamilton, Alice 10, 18
- Hatcher, O. Latham 18
- Hazzard, Florence (Woolsey) 10
- Heath, Kathryn Gladys 18
- Henelem, Charlotte W. 18
- Hinckley, Georgiana Ames 30
- Hoffman, Helen Duey 18
- Hogan, William R. 9
- Hogue, Caroline 18
- Holden, Miriam (Young) 19
- Houdlette, Harriet Ahlers 18
- Hurst, Fannie 18, 27
- Internationaal Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging 12
- Jarrell, Daisy Haston 18
- Jones, Gwladys Webster 16, 18, 19, 20
- Jordan, Wilbur Kitchener 19
- Kamaladevi 19
- Kaplan, Judith 15
- Keller, May L. 18
- Kent, Elizabeth 18
- Kibbee, Margaret 28
- Kingsbury, Susan M. 18
- Kitchelt, Florence Ledyard (Cross) 30
- Kneubuhl, Emily 18
- Knight, Mabel F. 19
- Lansburgh, Hortenese 18
- Leeper, Mary E. 19
- Leger, Eva M. 20
- Lindeman, Eduard C. 30
- Loewenthal, ? 18
- Lutrell, Estelle 18
- MacCracken, Henry Noble 18
- Marble, Sarah A. 19
- Marshall, Helen E. 11
- Martin, Anne 18
- Meyer, Annie (Nathan) 30
- Milam, Ava B. 18
- Miller, Alice (Duer) 27
- Miller, Izetta Jewel (Kenney) Brown 18
- Mitchell, Juanita Jackson 17
- Morgan, Edna E. 20
- Moser, Mrs. Thomas C. 19
- Naumberg, Elsie 19
- Nichols, Jeanette P. 28
- O'Day, Caroline (Goodwin) 18
- Owens, Helen (Brewster) 24
- Peters, Iva L. 18
- Petrides, Frederique 19
- Porter, Dorothy B. 17
- Post, Alice (Thatcher) 18
- Quisenberry, Harriette 18
- Rait, Effie I. 24
- Reid, Helen Rogers 27
- Rembaugh, Bertha 18
- Richard, Esther L. 18
- Richards, Elizabeth G. 30
- Rider, Fremont 9
- Roberts, Margaret 18
- Robertson, Anne 18
- Robinson, Edith 18
- Rockwell, Ethel 15
- Roosevelt, Anna Eleanor (Roosevelt) 10
- Ross, Nellie Tayloe 18, 27
- Rublee, Juliet (Barrett) 27
- Sabin, Florence Rena 10, 18, 24
- St. Clair, Sadie 17
- St. Wittlin, Alma 18, 19
- Saunders, Mira C. 16, 18
- Schwimmer, Rosika 16
- Scudder, Vida Dutton 18
- Sherman, Caroline 18
- Sherwin, Belle 10, 18
- Shouse, Martha 24
- Shryock, Rheba 18
- Shryock, Richard 15
- Slowe, Lucy 17
- Smith, Dorothy 18
- Soffel, Sara M. 28
- Southall, Maycie 19
- Stamp, Adele 18
- Stephens, Ruth Pierpont 22
- Stevens, Doris 18
- Stimson, Dorothy 18
- Stoemer, Grace S. 18
- Stone, Margaret F. 18
- Stowe, Lyman Beecher 18
- Strack, Celeste 15
- Stroh, M. Margaret 19
- Strong, Esther Boorman 22
- Sumwalt, Florence E. 18
- Swormstedt, Marie 18
- Tantaquidgeon, Gladys 19
- Tarbell, Ida Minerva 18
- Taylor-Jones, Louise 18
- Te Ata 19
- Thorington, Elizabeth Jane 18
- Thornton, Renee 15
- Thurman, Sue (Bailey) 17
- Tinnin, Glenna S. 10
- Vogel, Hildegard 18
- Wells, Marguerite Milton 18
- Wilkins, Mrs. Frank G. 18
- Williams, Charl Ormond 18
- Wise, Winifred E. 16
- Wold, Emma 18
- Wood, James M. 18
- Woodhouse, Chase (Going) 9, 18
- Woodward, Ellen (Sullivan) 18
- Woolley, Mary Emma 14
- Work, Monroe 17
- Wunderlich, Frieda 19
- Yellis, Elsie M. 20
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS: Writers of Letters to Others (not Mary Beard)
- Abbott, Edith 30
- Anderson, Evelyn 24
- Andrews, Fannie Fern (Phillips) 18
- Baker, Elizabeth 28
- Baylis, J. S. 18
- Bethune, Mary (McLeod) 17
- Bierstadt, Catherine 28
- Blair, Dorothy E. 28
- Bliss, Leslie Edgar 16
- Borg, Mrs. Sidney 27
- Bourg, C. J. 30
- Breckinridge, Sophonisba (Preston) 28
- Brunauer, Esther Caukin 12
- Bryan, Mary de Garma 19
- Buck, Pearl Comfort (Sydenstricker) 27
- Burrell, Mary H. 18
- Carney, Mabel 19
- Catt, Carrie (Lane) Chapman 10, 18
- Cavanaugh, Eleanor 28
- Collins, Mary Love 18
- Cronkhite, Bernice Veazy (Brown) 30
- Decker, Lillian 18
- Demarest, James V. 18
- de Mille, Cecil B. 18
- Dick, Bertha 20
- Dreier, Mary Elisabeth 30
- Elliot, Edward C. 18
- Emery, Miriam Jackson 18
- Evans, Alice C. 24
- Ewers, Lela A. 24
- Fisher, Dorothy (Canfield) 28
- Forman, Caroline L. 18
- Gay, Jan 19
- Glass, Meta 18
- Grove, Elsa Butler 13
- Gueydan, H. L. 30
- Haggard, C. Patience 18
- Hallsten-Kallia, Armi 15
- Hammersley, Evadna B. 15
- Hansl, Eva Elise vom Baur 13, 19, 24
- Haraszti, Zoltan 16
- Harkness, Mary Stillman 10
- Hendricks, Rosalie Nathan 19
- Hendrickson, Dora 18
- Hersch, Virginia 18
- Higley, Mary C. J. 18
- Hinckley, Georgiana Ames 9, 30
- Hirth, Emma P. 27
- Horton, Mildred (McAfee) 28
- Howard, Edith 18
- Howard, Margaret Rohel 18
- Hufeland, Otto 10
- Hull, Hannah Clothier 18
- Hurja, Gudrun A. 10
- Hutchins, Alice Parker 19
- Irwin, Inez (Haynes) 2, 10, 18, 19, 28, 29
- Jackson, Virginia M. 18
- Jean, Sally Lucas 28
- Jenckes, Virginia E. 18
- Jenkins, Hester D. 18
- Johnson, Karen 18
- Jones, Gwladys Webster 19, 20, 30
- Jordan, Wilbur Kitchener 10, 30
- Kahn, Julietta B. 19
- Kelsey, Mary 18
- Koch, Margaret 28
- Kraushaar, Ruth 18
- LaFarge, Oliver 14
- Leonard, Maria 18
- Lewis, Ethel 28
- Lewisohn, Irene 10, 28
- Lit, Janice Reed 18
- McCann, Celia 28
- McCormick, Katharine (Dexter) 18
- MacDonell, Katherine 15
- Mallon, Marguerite 24
- Mandigo, Pauline E. 24
- Manus, Rosa 12
- Marion, Frances 18
- Martin, Marion 24
- Matthes, Charlotte A. 12
- May, Emma 10
- Mellen, Ida M. 18
- Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst 27
- Milligan, Lucy R. 28
- Mitchell, Juanita Jackson 17
- Moore, Gertrude 10
- Moore, Martha 28
- Morgan, Anne 27
- Morrison, Adrienne 28
- Muendel, Christina 28
- Murray, Frances R. 28
- Nichols, Ruth 18, 28
- Noble, Ruth 18
- O'Shea, Harriet E. 24
- Owens, Helen (Brewster) 9
- Park, Alice 10
- Patch, Edith 24
- Pearce, Helen 18, 28
- Peirce-Hughes, Lois 24
- Pool, Mrs. David de Sola 19
- Porter, Dorothy B. 7
- Quinlan, Laura A. 24
- Quisenberry, Harriette 18
- Redmond, Margaret 28
- Rentiman, Gladys H. 28
- Rinehart, Mary (Roberts) 10
- Robinson, Anna E. 15
- Rockefeller, Abby Greene (Aldrich) 28
- Roebling, Mary G. 28
- Rohde, Ruth (Bryan) Owen 27
- Sabin, Florence Rena 24, 30
- Sanger, Margaret (Higgins) 27
- Savord, Ruth 12, 18, 19, 28
- Schain, Josephine 28
- Schiff, Dorothy 27
- Schneiderman, Rose 28
- Schwimmer, Rosika 18, 23
- Seton, Grace Thompson 18
- Shauk, Mrs. H. V. 18
- Shouse, Martha 16, 19, 20, 24, 26
- Shryock, Richard 29
- Smith, Josephine 18
- Smith, A. Marguerite 16
- Soffel, Sara M. 28
- Stephens, Mrs. H. A. 18
- Stimson, Dorothy 18
- Stinnin, Glenna 20
- Stoermer, Grace S. 28
- Stokes, Anson Phelps 2
- Strachey, Philippa 12
- Straight, Beatrice 18
- Strauss, Anna Lord 29
- Strong, George F. 9
- Sweet, Mrs. Richard 28
- Talbot, Marion 18
- Tanner, Elsie K. 28
- Tarbell, Ida Minerva 18, 28
- Tench, Mrs. Frank Murray 29
- Tinnin, Glenna S. 10, 18
- Todd, Jane H. 27
- Tolhurst, Helen W. 18
- Tryon, Ruth Wilson 18
- Van Volkenburg, Ellen 28
- Wall, Alexander J. 13
- Warren, Constance 29
- Wetmore, Margaret K. 18
- White, Marjorie 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 19, 24, 30
- Williams, Charl Ormond 27
- Willis-Berg, Portia 18
- Woodhouse, Chase (Going) 24
- Woodruff, Ruth T. 18
- Woodward, Ellen (Sullivan) 18
- Woolley, Mary Emma 29
- Yellis, Elsie M. 20, 30
Processing Information
Reprocessed: October 1986
By: Anne Engelhart, Teresa O'Rourke
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.
Creator
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958 (Person)
Subject
- Catt , Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947 (Person)
- Hamilton, Alice , 1869-1970 (Person)
- Title
- Beard, Mary Ritter, 1876-1958. Papers of Mary Ritter Beard, 1935-1958: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00440
Repository Details
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