Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division
Mary A. Livermore Collection
Princeton University. Library. Special Collections
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton) (1820-1905)
C0117
/repositories/5/resources/3597
9 boxes
5.15 linear feet
1768-1928
1846-1905
Consists of two collections of materials created by or related to American suffragette and reformer Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1820-1905), including autograph notes, drafts, typescripts, and reprints of lectures, addresses, articles, and short stories by Livermore; correspondence; family documents and photographs; and clippings and printed materials, some of which were collected by Adelaide Witherington Boynton.
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Scope and Contents
The Mary A. Livermore Collection was formed by combining two separately acquired groups of material. The "Writings by Mary A. Livermore and Others" file group consists of autograph notes, drafts, typescripts, and reprints of several lectures, articles and short stories by or pertaining to Mary Livermore together with manuscripts of poetry by Hezekiah Butterworth and Lillie J. Davis.
Materials collected by Adelaide Witherington Boynton, a family member of Livermore, include correspondence (to, from, and about Mary Livermore, together with letters of the Witherington family), two memoranda books belonging to Mary Livermore, financial records, and other miscellaneous documents. The majority of the material in this part of the collection, however, consists of early or finished autograph drafts of Livermore's lectures and addresses on various historical topics, woman's suffrage, temperance, religion, and anthropology. Also included are some periodicals, pamphlets, and clippings pertaining to, written and/or collected by Livermore, as well as photographs and glass plate negatives of family portraits and pictures from Livermore's European travels.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
Access to glass-plate negatives is restricted due to their fragility. Where prints of the negatives are present, the prints are open for research use. Though digitization may not be possible for every negative, researchers may make requests to digitize material via the Ask Special Collections, form according to Special Collections' policy on digitization.
Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. For instances beyond Fair Use, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was formed as a result of a departmental practice of combining into one collection material of various accessions relating to a particular person, family, or subject.
Appraisal
No appraisal information is available.
Processing Information
Original processing information unknown.
Some revisions to the finding aid were made by Kelly Bolding in February 2020. Lexy deGraffenreid updated the Conditions Governing Access note in January 2025.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Mary A. Livermore Collection, Box and Folder Number; Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton) (1820-1905)
Biographical / Historical
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1820-1905) of Boston, Massachusetts, was an American suffragette and reformer. In 1845 she married Reverend Daniel Parker Livermore, and together they co-edited the New Covenant, a church periodical, from 1857 to 1869. Livermore was a proponent of the temperance cause and an activist in the women's suffrage movement. For a number of years, she was president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and honorary president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Her philanthropic work with such groups as the Boston Women's Educational and Industrial and the Woman's Relief Corps was lauded by her contemporaries. Founder and editor of The Agitator and the Woman's Journal (1869-1872), Livermore became a spokesman for woman's suffrage. Twice she was selected as a delegate to the Massachusetts State Republican Convention, where she presented temperance and suffrage resolutions which were incorporated into the party platform. As a lecturer at the Redpath Lyceum Bureau in Boston, she spoke regularly for audiences of "mothers, teachers, and clergymen."
Bibliography
Additional Source: Livermore, Mary A., The Story of My Life (Hartford, Conn.: A. D. Worthington and Company, 1899)
Lectures and lecturing -- United States -- 19th century
Suffrage -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Temperance.
Temperance and religion -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- 19th century
Women's rights -- United States -- 19th century
Correspondence -- 19th century
Glass plate negatives. -- 19th century
Lectures -- 19th century
Photographs -- 19th century.
Suffragettes -- United States -- 19th century
Withington family
Butterworth, Hezekiah (1839-1905)
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton) (1820-1905)
Livermore, Mary A. (Mary Ashton) (1820-1905)
Biographical / Historical
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore (1820-1905) of Boston, Massachusetts, was an American suffragette and reformer. In 1845 she married Reverend Daniel Parker Livermore, and together they co-edited the New Covenant, a church periodical, from 1857 to 1869. Livermore was a proponent of the temperance cause and an activist in the women's suffrage movement. For a number of years, she was president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and honorary president of the Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Her philanthropic work with such groups as the Boston Women's Educational and Industrial and the Woman's Relief Corps was lauded by her contemporaries. Founder and editor of The Agitator and the Woman's Journal (1869-1872), Livermore became a spokesman for woman's suffrage. Twice she was selected as a delegate to the Massachusetts State Republican Convention, where she presented temperance and suffrage resolutions which were incorporated into the party platform. As a lecturer at the Redpath Lyceum Bureau in Boston, she spoke regularly for audiences of "mothers, teachers, and clergymen."
Writings by Mary A. Livermore and Others/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696521 box1896-1904Scope and ContentsConsists of manuscripts, reprints, and printed material by or pertaining to Mary Livermore.
ArrangementArranged by material type.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAM 12815
Purchased from Dickinson's Old Curiosity Shop in 1946.
Writings by Mary A. Livermore/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696541 box1901undatedScope and ContentsConsists of short stories (such as "The Live-Long Sacrifice" and "Lost and Found"), lectures (such as "Our Mother Land" and "The Story of Chicago" ), and articles (such as "The Mission of Sorrow" and "Abraham Lincoln") written by Mary A. Livermore.
Notes, Drafts, and Reprints of "Abraham Lincoln," Article/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696631 foldercirca 190111Typescript, "The Live-Long Sacrifice," Short Story/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696641 folderundated12Typescript, "Lost and Found," Short Story/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696651 folderundated13Typescript, "The Mission of Sorrow," Article/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696661 folderundated14Notes, "Our Mother Land," Lecture/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696671 folderundated15Notes, Draft, "The Story of Chicago," Lecture/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696681 folderundated16Draft, Synopsis, "The Teacher as a Moral Force,"/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696691 folderundated17"General U. S. Grant," Reprint of Article in , The Leader, V. I, no. 5/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696551 foldercirca 1898-1903 May18Poetry by Others/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696561 box1896-1904Scope and ContentsConsists of manuscripts of "The Bowl of Albemarle" by Hezekiah Butterworth and five poems by Lillie J. Davis.
"The Bowl of Albemarle," Poem by Hezekiah Butterworth/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696701 folder189619Scope and ContentsTypescript with autograph markings.
Five Poems by Lillie J. Davis/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696711 folder1904110Scope and ContentsAutograph manuscripts of "Alone," "Appledore, Isles of Shoals," "Autumn," "A Soul's Errand," and "To My Mother."
Adelaide Witherington Boynton Collection of Mary A. Livermore Materials/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696538 boxes1768-1928Scope and ContentsConsists of a group of autograph manuscripts, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, magazines by or pertaining to Mary A. Livermore, collected by Adelaide Witherington Boynton.
ArrangementArranged by material type.
Immediate Source of AcquisitionAM 13484
Purchased from N.C. Godsoe of Boston in 1946.
Correspondence/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696571 box1846-1905Scope and ContentsConsists of correspondence (46 pieces) of Mary A. Livermore as well as of Miss Adelaide Witherington Boynton and others of the family.
ArrangementArranged by genre of material.
Letters by Mary A. Livermore/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696721 folder1846-190121Scope and Contents4 letters.
Letters to Mary A. Livermore/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696731 folder1899-190522Scope and Contents8 letters.
Letters About Mary A. Livermore/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696741 folder190523Scope and Contents4 letters.
Letters Received by Miss Adelaide Witherington Boynton and Others of the Family/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696751 folderundated24Scope and Contents30 letters.
Notebook of Copied Prose and Memorandum Book/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696581 foldercirca 190025Scope and ContentsConsists of a notebook of copied prose and memoranda book.
Family Documents/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696591 box1768-1928Scope and ContentsConsists of ten check bank books, possibly of Adelaide Witherington Boynton, as well as a baptism certificate of Harriette Livermore and several other miscellaneous family documents.
Bank Check Books, [Possibly] of Adelaide Witherington Boynton/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696762 folders1926-192826-7Scope and Contents10 books.
Miscellaneous Family Documents/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696771 folder1768-190528Scope and ContentsMiscellaneous family documents, including a baptism certificate for Harriette Livermore (1823), a typescript transcription of a bill of sale for an enslaved man named Cato from Lydia Loring to Thomas Loring (Plymouth County, Massachusettes, 1768), a typescript copy of a letter certifying Samuel C. Wright's service during the American Civil War (circa 1865), a letter regarding pensions for United States Army nurses (1905), and some unidentified anthropological sketches.
Autograph Lectures and Addresses by Mary A. Livermore/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696603 boxescirca 1845-1892Scope and ContentsEarly or finished drafts (51 pieces). Most are not dated but from the hand appear to represent the late period of Livermore's lecturing.
ArrangementArranged alphabetically by title.
Across the Continent/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696781 folderundated31Address at the Centennial of the Ordinance of 1787, Marietta, Ohio/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696791 folder1888 July 1632Address for Lake Pleasant/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696801 folder1880 July 533Ancient Mound Builders/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696811 folderundated34The Battle of Life/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696821 folderundated35Boston-Past and Present/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696831 folderundated36Buddha and His Religion/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696841 folderundated37Catacombs of Rome/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696851 folderundated38Columbus/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696861 folderundated39Concerning Husbands and Wives/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696871 folderundated310Consider the Wondrous Works of God/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696881 folderundated311Co-operative Housekeeping/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696891 folderundated312Dedicatory Lines (A Poem)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696901 folder1845313Edinburgh and the Scotch/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696911 folderundated314Elizabeth of England (Two Versions)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696921 folderundated315Elizabeth Fry/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696931 folderundated316Equal Rights/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696941 folderundated317The Guttenberg and Norway Systems of Liquor Traffic/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696951 folderundated318Harriet Martineau/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696961 folderundated41The Highest Type of Manhood (The New Aristocracy)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696971 folderundated42Homes Builded by Women/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696981 folderundated43John B. Gough and His Times/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696991 folderundated44The Learned Women of Bologna/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697001 folderundated45London and the English (Two Lectures)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697011 folderundated46A Look Ahead!/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697021 folderundated47Modern Italy/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697031 folderundated48Naples, Pompeii and Vesuvius/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697041 folderundated49Paris and the French/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697051 folderundated410Rome (Two Lectures)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697061 folderundated411Scraps of Foreign Travel (Three Lectures)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697071 folderundated412Second Death (Lecture Sermon)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697081 folderundated413Sermons and Addresses/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697091 folderundated414Scope and ContentsA miscellaneous collection of notes, studies; incomplete and brief works.
Socrates (Two Versions)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697101 folderundated415Sphere and Influence of Women/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697111 folderundated51Success in Life/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697121 folderundated52Superfluous Women/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697131 folderundated53The Teacher as a Moral Force/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697141 folderundated54Temperance/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697151 folderundated55Twenty-five Years on the Lecture Platform/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697161 folder1889-189256Venice/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697171 folderundated57Washington, the Man of Principle/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697181 folderundated58Wendell Phillips/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697191 folderundated59What is Christianity/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697201 folderundated510Woman Suffrage, Scriptural Argument/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697211 folderundated511Woman's Rights/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697221 folderundated512Wonders of the World/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697231 folderundated513Periodicals and Clippings/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696611 box1864-19046Scope and ContentsConsists of three issues of The Arena, 1889-1892, nine of Worthington's Illustrated Magazine, 1893-1894; about a hundred newspaper clippings; extracts from magazines or pamphlets; either those collected by Mary Livermore for her information, or those of her published writings or articles about her.
Photographs/repositories/5/archival_objects/8696623 boxescirca 1880-1905Scope and ContentsConsists of portraits of Mary Livermore, family portraits, photographs of houses, and travel photographs taken in Europe. There are both photographic prints and glass plate negatives.
ArrangementArranged by subject matter.
Portraits of Mary Livermore and Family Members/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697242 folderscirca 1880-190371-2Photographs from European Travels/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697251 foldercirca 1880-190573Scope and ContentsConsists of photographs and some illustrations of buildings and landscapes in Europe, including many locations in Italy, and some unidentified locations.
Print of "Eminent Women" by Eugène L'Africain (1859-1892)/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697261 box1884P-000143Scope and ContentsConsists of a composite group portrait of twelve American women writers: Mary A. Livermore, Sara[h] [Orne] Jewett, Grace A. Oliver, Helen Hunt [Jackson], Nora Perry, Lucy Larcom, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Louise Chandler Moulton, Louisa M. Alcott, Julia Ward Howe, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The print is damaged around the edges, and the border has been cut away.
Glass Plate Negatives/repositories/5/archival_objects/8697271 boxcirca 1880-19058Scope and ContentsConsists of 31 5x8" and 3 4x5" glass plate negatives depicting family portraits, houses, and nature scenes.