Overview
Diaries and scrapbook of Frances Merritt Quick, teacher.
Dates
- Creation: 1817-1895
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Frances Merritt Quick 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
.42 linear feet (1 file box)Five diaries, 1854-1858, 1864, of a student and teacher at the Framingham, Massachusetts State Normal School and later the wife of Reverend A.J. Quick in Richmond, Massachusetts. Also, scrapbook containing a manuscript, 1817, by Caroline Prescott entitled "Female Education," and a few letters.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 174, 664, 673
Gift of Mrs. J.K. Sutherland, 648 Avenue K, Boulder City, Nevada, and Mr. Robert T. Simonds, 7305 Cedar Avenue, Takoma Park 12, Maryland. Received August 1960, November 1963, and January 1964.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Quick, Frances Merritt, 1833-1924. Papers of Frances Merritt Quick, 1817-1895: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00866
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
The preeminent research library on the history of women in the United States, the Schlesinger Library documents women's lives from the past and present for the future. In addition to its traditional strengths in the history of feminisms, women’s health, and women’s activism, the Schlesinger collections document the intersectional workings of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history.