Isabella Beecher Hooker Project
- Location: McKeldin Library
Location Code & Call Number:MCK-PER M-FICHE HQ1413.H65S86 - Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907. Isabella Beecher Hooker
Project.
144 Fiche.
Description
This collection includes papers of Isabella Beecher Hooker held by the Stowe-Day Foundation as well as items from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Yale), the Lucy Robbins Welles Library, the Mark Twain Papers, the Sophia Smith Collection, the Seneca Falls Historical Society, the Schlesinger Library (Radcliffe) and other libraries. Hooker was the youngest daughter of Lyman and Harriet Porter Beecher of Litchfield, CT and Cincinnati, OH. She was a leading suffragist, reformer and writer. Approximately 1,700 items were filmed for this project.
The material is divided into four series:
- Correspcndence from all collections, including joint letters, written by Hooker between 1837 and 1860, arranged chronologically.
- Correspondence from all collections, including joint letters, written by Hooker between 1861 ard 1906, arrar:ged chronclogically.
- Documents from all collections written by Hooker between 1834 and 1906, arranged chronologically.
- Suffrage-related letters written by Hooker's correepondents, arranged a1phabetically by sender and chronologically within each group of correspondence. A collection of suffrage related circulars and broadsides follows, arranged chronologically.
See pages 53-55 of the guide to the project for information about the format of each microfiche.
Correspondents are identified in the guide.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:
- MCK-REF HQ1413.H65S86 1979
- Stowe-Day Foundation. The Isabella Beecher HookerProject.
