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• Author/Creator:Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
  
• Title:Barbara D. Simison papers relating to Lydia Maria Child, 1836-1947.
  
• Physical Description:0.4 linear feet (1 box)
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LSF- BEINECKE
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: YCAL MSS 71
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:Gift of Barbara D. Simison, 1969.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Lydia Maria Child, American author of works including A Brief History of the Condition of Women (1845), a series of Letters from New York (1844-49), and The Progress of Religious Ideas (1855). A strong Abolitionist who edited the antislavery New York Standard with her husband, she offered to nurse John Brown after his capture in 1859.
  
• Summary:The papers concern Barbara D. Simison's projected edition of the letters of Lydia Maria Child, and consist of research correspondence with other scholars and with libraries and Simison's annotated working transcripts of Child's letters. In addition, the collection contains 15 autograph letters by Lydia Maria Child, including an ALS to Richard Fletcher describing the Samaritan Asylum for Colored Orphans; 3 ALS to Oliver Johnson concerning publishing projects and Civil War politics; and an ALS to James Redpath in support of a woman sculptor's effort to secure the commission for a statue of John Brown.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Barbara D. Simison Papers Relating to Lydia Maria Child. American Literature Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Child, David Lee, 1794-1874.
  Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
  Drew, Thomas, pub.
  Fletcher, Richard, 1788-1869.
  Johnson, Oliver, 1809-1889.
  Redpath, James, 1833-1891.
  Simison, Barbara D. (Barbara Damon), 1907-
  Ward, William Hayes, 1835-1916.
  Samaritan Asylum for Colored Orphans.
  Abolitionists.
  Authors, American--19th century.
  Women abolitionists.
  Women authors, American--19th century.