Adelaide Witherington Boynton Collection of Mary A. Livermore Materials /repositories/5/archival_objects/869653 8 boxes 1768-1928 Scope and Contents

Consists of a group of autograph manuscripts, photographs, clippings, pamphlets, magazines by or pertaining to Mary A. Livermore, collected by Adelaide Witherington Boynton.

Arrangement

Arranged by material type.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

AM 13484

Purchased from N.C. Godsoe of Boston in 1946.

Correspondence /repositories/5/archival_objects/869657 1 box 1846-1905 Scope and Contents

Consists of correspondence (46 pieces) of Mary A. Livermore as well as of Miss Adelaide Witherington Boynton and others of the family.

Arrangement

Arranged by genre of material.

Letters by Mary A. Livermore /repositories/5/archival_objects/869672 1 folder 1846-1901 2 1 Scope and Contents

4 letters.

Letters to Mary A. Livermore /repositories/5/archival_objects/869673 1 folder 1899-1905 2 2 Scope and Contents

8 letters.

Letters About Mary A. Livermore /repositories/5/archival_objects/869674 1 folder 1905 2 3 Scope and Contents

4 letters.

Letters Received by Miss Adelaide Witherington Boynton and Others of the Family /repositories/5/archival_objects/869675 1 folder undated 2 4 Scope and Contents

30 letters.

Notebook of Copied Prose and Memorandum Book /repositories/5/archival_objects/869658 1 folder circa 1900 2 5 Scope and Contents

Consists of a notebook of copied prose and memoranda book.

Family Documents /repositories/5/archival_objects/869659 1 box 1768-1928 Scope and Contents

Consists 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/869676 2 folders 1926-1928 2 6-7 Scope and Contents

10 books.

Miscellaneous Family Documents /repositories/5/archival_objects/869677 1 folder 1768-1905 2 8 Scope and Contents

Miscellaneous 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/869660 3 boxes circa 1845-1892 Scope and Contents

Early or finished drafts (51 pieces). Most are not dated but from the hand appear to represent the late period of Livermore's lecturing.

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by title.

Across the Continent /repositories/5/archival_objects/869678 1 folder undated 3 1 Address at the Centennial of the Ordinance of 1787, Marietta, Ohio /repositories/5/archival_objects/869679 1 folder 1888 July 16 3 2 Address for Lake Pleasant /repositories/5/archival_objects/869680 1 folder 1880 July 5 3 3 Ancient Mound Builders /repositories/5/archival_objects/869681 1 folder undated 3 4 The Battle of Life /repositories/5/archival_objects/869682 1 folder undated 3 5 Boston-Past and Present /repositories/5/archival_objects/869683 1 folder undated 3 6 Buddha and His Religion /repositories/5/archival_objects/869684 1 folder undated 3 7 Catacombs of Rome /repositories/5/archival_objects/869685 1 folder undated 3 8 Columbus /repositories/5/archival_objects/869686 1 folder undated 3 9 Concerning Husbands and Wives /repositories/5/archival_objects/869687 1 folder undated 3 10 Consider the Wondrous Works of God /repositories/5/archival_objects/869688 1 folder undated 3 11 Co-operative Housekeeping /repositories/5/archival_objects/869689 1 folder undated 3 12 Dedicatory Lines (A Poem) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869690 1 folder 1845 3 13 Edinburgh and the Scotch /repositories/5/archival_objects/869691 1 folder undated 3 14 Elizabeth of England (Two Versions) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869692 1 folder undated 3 15 Elizabeth Fry /repositories/5/archival_objects/869693 1 folder undated 3 16 Equal Rights /repositories/5/archival_objects/869694 1 folder undated 3 17 The Guttenberg and Norway Systems of Liquor Traffic /repositories/5/archival_objects/869695 1 folder undated 3 18 Harriet Martineau /repositories/5/archival_objects/869696 1 folder undated 4 1 The Highest Type of Manhood (The New Aristocracy) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869697 1 folder undated 4 2 Homes Builded by Women /repositories/5/archival_objects/869698 1 folder undated 4 3 John B. Gough and His Times /repositories/5/archival_objects/869699 1 folder undated 4 4 The Learned Women of Bologna /repositories/5/archival_objects/869700 1 folder undated 4 5 London and the English (Two Lectures) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869701 1 folder undated 4 6 A Look Ahead! /repositories/5/archival_objects/869702 1 folder undated 4 7 Modern Italy /repositories/5/archival_objects/869703 1 folder undated 4 8 Naples, Pompeii and Vesuvius /repositories/5/archival_objects/869704 1 folder undated 4 9 Paris and the French /repositories/5/archival_objects/869705 1 folder undated 4 10 Rome (Two Lectures) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869706 1 folder undated 4 11 Scraps of Foreign Travel (Three Lectures) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869707 1 folder undated 4 12 Second Death (Lecture Sermon) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869708 1 folder undated 4 13 Sermons and Addresses /repositories/5/archival_objects/869709 1 folder undated 4 14 Scope and Contents

A miscellaneous collection of notes, studies; incomplete and brief works.

Socrates (Two Versions) /repositories/5/archival_objects/869710 1 folder undated 4 15 Sphere and Influence of Women /repositories/5/archival_objects/869711 1 folder undated 5 1 Success in Life /repositories/5/archival_objects/869712 1 folder undated 5 2 Superfluous Women /repositories/5/archival_objects/869713 1 folder undated 5 3 The Teacher as a Moral Force /repositories/5/archival_objects/869714 1 folder undated 5 4 Temperance /repositories/5/archival_objects/869715 1 folder undated 5 5 Twenty-five Years on the Lecture Platform /repositories/5/archival_objects/869716 1 folder 1889-1892 5 6 Venice /repositories/5/archival_objects/869717 1 folder undated 5 7 Washington, the Man of Principle /repositories/5/archival_objects/869718 1 folder undated 5 8 Wendell Phillips /repositories/5/archival_objects/869719 1 folder undated 5 9 What is Christianity /repositories/5/archival_objects/869720 1 folder undated 5 10 Woman Suffrage, Scriptural Argument /repositories/5/archival_objects/869721 1 folder undated 5 11 Woman's Rights /repositories/5/archival_objects/869722 1 folder undated 5 12 Wonders of the World /repositories/5/archival_objects/869723 1 folder undated 5 13 Periodicals and Clippings /repositories/5/archival_objects/869661 1 box 1864-1904 6 Scope and Contents

Consists 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/869662 3 boxes circa 1880-1905 Scope and Contents

Consists 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.

Arrangement

Arranged by subject matter.

Portraits of Mary Livermore and Family Members /repositories/5/archival_objects/869724 2 folders circa 1880-1903 7 1-2 Photographs from European Travels /repositories/5/archival_objects/869725 1 folder circa 1880-1905 7 3 Scope and Contents

Consists 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/869726 1 box 1884 P-000143 Scope and Contents

Consists 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/869727 1 box circa 1880-1905 8 Scope and Contents

Consists of 31 5x8" and 3 4x5" glass plate negatives depicting family portraits, houses, and nature scenes.