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Papers, 1817-1987, of Hannah Whitall Smith at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
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Repository:
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Creator:
Smith, Hannah (Whitall)
Title:
Smith, H.W. mss.,1817-1987
Collection No.:
LMC 1982
Extent:
ca. 30,500 items
Language:
Materials are in English.
Abstract:
Consists primarily of letters of Hannah
Whitall Smith, her two daughters Mary Berenson and Alys Whitall Pearsall Russell, and
Mary's two daughters Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen.
This collection is open for research.
Hannah Whitall Smith (1832-1911), American evangelist, writer, and reformer, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She grew up in a strict Quaker home and from childhood had a passion for religion and introspection. Hannah married Robert Pearsall Smith (1827-1899) in 1851 and settled in Germantown, Pennsylvania. In 1864 they moved to Millville, New Jersey, where they joined the Wesleyan-based Holiness movement. They had two daughters, Mary (1864-1945) and Alys (1867-1951), and one son, Logan Pearsall (1865-1946). In the late 1860's Hannah began preaching and writing on religious subjects, and later became involved in the temperance and suffrage movements, founding the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1874. When Mary married English barrister Frank Costelloe in 1888, the family moved to England where Hannah continued her work. It was there that Alys married philosopher Bertrand Russell. Alys joined her mother in working for women's rights and had a keen interest in political issues.
Meanwhile Mary's marriage to Frank Costelloe failed soon after the birth of their second daughter Karin. Mary left England to tour the museums and cathedrals of Europe with her future husband, art critic Bernard Berenson. Mary's daughters Ray and Karin stayed in England with their father and thrived under the influence of their grandmother Hannah. Ray became the third generation of "Whitall" women to devote her life to women's issues, while Karin became a pioneer in Freudian psychoanalysis and one of Britain's first psychoanalysts. The circle of friends and relatives broadened further when Ray married into the Strachey family and Karin wed Virginia Woolf's brother Adrian Stephen.
Arranged in the following series: I. General correspondence. II. Correspondence from family members. III. Miscellaneous. IV. Photographs. V. Bound volumes.
Consists primarily of letters of Hannah Whitall Smith, her two daughters Mary Berenson and Alys Whitall Pearsall Russell, and Mary's two daughters Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen. The correspondence is mostly among these five women, but included is correspondence with other members of the Smith family, extended relations and friends both in the U.S. and Europe.
Other correspondents include: Bernard Berenson, Dorothy Bussy, Frank Costelloe, Jane Ellen Harrison, Bertrand Russell, Geoffrey Scott, Logan Pearsall Smith, Robert Pearsall Smith, Lady Henry Somerset, Adrian Stephen, Alix Strachey, Barbara Strachey, Julia Frances Strachey, Oliver Strachey, M. Carey Thomas, Frances Elizabeth Willard, and Virginia Woolf.
Also present in the collection are juvenalia, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, photographs, and other miscellaneous papers.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.
Acquisition Information:
Purchased. 1989.
Usage Restrictions:
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons
from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their
visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.
Preferred Citation:
[Item], Smith, H.W. mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
Indiana.
| Box 1-2 |
1710-1987
(674 letters)
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| Box 2-5 |
1872-1944
(7,045 letters)
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| Box 5-8 |
1868-1950
(5,358 letters)
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| Box 8-11 |
1836-1911
(7,113 letters)
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| Box 11-13 |
1892-1945
(2,884 letters)
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| Box 13-15 |
1890-1940
(4,535 letters)
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| Box 15 | Folder 19 |
Cipher (for bookplate?)
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| Box 15 | Folder 20 |
Printed material about Berenson
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| Box 15 | Folder 21-22 |
Clippings, 1951-1984
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| Box 15 | Folder 23 |
Clippings - obituaries
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| Box 15 | Folder 24-25 |
Juvenalia
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| Box 15 | Folder 26 |
Confessions of M.W.C.,
1890
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| Box 15 | Folder 27-28 |
Life of B.B., chap. I-IX
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| Box 15 | Folder 29 |
Reminiscences of Walt Whitman
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| Box 15 | Folder 30 |
Misc. poetry
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| Box 15 | Folder 31 |
Misc. prose
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| Box 15 | Folder 32 |
Lecture invitations and handbills
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| Box 15 | Folder 33 |
Lock of hair
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| Box 16 | Folder 1-3 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 16 | Folder 4 |
Clippings, 1885-1950
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| Box 16 | Folder 5 |
Election posters; "A wife shd"; photocopy of will
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| Box 16 | Folder 6 |
Clippings, 1885-1886
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| Box 16 | Folder 7 |
Bernard Berenson
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| Box 16 | Folder 8-21 |
Mary (Smith) Berenson
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| Box 16 | Folder 22 |
Frank Costelloe
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| Box 16 | Folder 23 |
Alys Whitall Pearsall (Smith) Russell
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| Box 16 | Folder 24-28 |
Hannah (Whitall) Smith
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| Box 17 | Folder 1-2 |
Logan Pearsall Smith
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| Box 17 | Folder 3 |
Robert Pearsall Smith
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| Box 17 | Folder 4 |
Karin (Costelloe) Stephen
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| Box 17 | Folder 5 |
M. Carey Thomas
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| Box 17 | Folder 6 |
Horace Traubel and Walt Whitman
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| Box 17 | Folder 7 |
Memoirs
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| Box 17 | Folder 8 |
Broadcast scripts
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| Box 17 | Folder 9 |
Loose material from scrapbook, 1892-1896
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| Box 17 | Folder 10 |
Loose material from scrapbook, 1898-1900
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| Box 17 | Folder 11 |
Reminiscences about Bertrand Russell, notebook (Alys'
hand?)
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| Box 17 | Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 17 | Folder 13 |
Printed: clippings, handbills
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| Box 17 | Folder 14 |
Contracts and copyright agreements
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| Box 17 | Folder 15 |
Oxford meetings, 1874
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| Box 17 | Folder 16 |
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Writings
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| Box 17 | Folder 17 |
Autobiography
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| Box 17 | Folder 18 |
Memoirs
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| Box 17 | Folder 19 |
On authority of a husband
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| Box 17 | Folder 20 |
Misc. writings
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| Box 17 | Folder 21 |
Printed: Yellowstone Park articles
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| Box 17 | Folder 22 |
Printed: Misc.
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| Box 17 | Folder 23 |
Writings by others on the Holiness Movement
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| Box 17 | Folder 24-25 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 17 | Folder 26 |
Scrapbook, clippings and printed material, 1873-1884
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| Box 17 | Folder 27-29 |
Clippings, 1876-1951
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| Box 17 | Folder 30 |
Miscellaneous writings and photocopy of will
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| Box 17 | Folder 31 |
Handbill, biographical information
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| Box 17 | Folder 32 |
Printed writings, photocopy of portion of diary
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| Box 17 | Folder 33 |
Juvenalia
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| Box 17 | Folder 34 |
Human misery, 1952
Typescript [237]p.
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| Box 17 | Folder 35 |
Lecture
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| Box 17 | Folder 36 |
Speeches
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| Box 17 | Folder 37 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 17 | Folder 38 |
Printed articles by Stephen
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| Box 17 | Folder 39 |
Clippings, 1907-1976
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| Box 17 | Folder 40 |
Misc. writings
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| Box 17 | Folder 41 |
Juvenalia
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| Box 17 | Folder 42 |
Transcript of letters, July 2-Nov. 24,
1908
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| Box 18 | Folder 1 |
"Ray's journal," 1905
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| Box 18 | Folder 2 |
1918
election: handbills, clippings
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| Box 18 | Folder 3 |
Women's suffrage, 1909
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| Box 18 | Folder 4 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 18 | Folder 5 |
Miscellaneous clippings, handbills, school reports: James, Alix,
Julia, Philippa Strachey
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| Box 18 | Folder 6 |
Miscellaneous
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| Box 18 | Folder 7 |
Printed by Thomas
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| Box 18 | Folder 8 |
Clippings, 1885-1904
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| Box 18 | Folder 9 |
Misc. writings, printed material
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| Box 18 | Folder 10 |
Printed material relating to Smith family and unidentified
items
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| Box 18 | Folder 11 |
Berenson, Bernard
(see also: Box 18, folder 14, 15, 25; Circ. 125) |
| Box 18 | Folder 12 |
Berenson, Mary Smith
(see also: Box 18, folder 12, 18, 22, 22a, 25, 28, 34, 35; Circ. 6, 87, 100, 102, 115, 125; Volumes 24, 35, 36, 41, 44) |
| Box 18 | Folder 13 |
Costelloe, Frank
(see also: Box 18, folder 12, 18; Circ. 29) |
| Box 18 | Folder 14 |
Halpern, Barbara (Strachey)
(see also: Box 18, folder 11) |
| Box 18 | Folder 15 |
Hultin, Roger
(see also: Box 18, folder 11, 12, 25, 26) |
| Box 18 | Folder 16 |
Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall (Smith)
(see also: Box 18, folder 18, 22, 22a, 28, 35; Circ. 6, 14, 65, 67, 83, 87, 92, 108, 115, 123; Volumes 24, 41, 44) |
| Box 18 | Folder 17 |
Smith, Hannah (Whitall)
(see also: Box 18, folder 12, 16, 18, 22, 22a, 27, 35; Circ. 6, 14, 87, 115, 127; Volumes 24, 27, 35, 36, 41, 44) |
| Box 18 | Folder 18 |
Smith, Logan Pearsall
(see also: Box 18, folder 16, 22, 22a, 28, 35; Circ. 6, 87; Volume 24) |
| Box 18 | Folder 19 |
Smith, Rachel Pearsall
(see also: Box 18, folder 22, 28) |
| Box 18 | Folder 19 |
Smith, Robert Pearsall
(see: Box 18, folder 16, 17, 22, 22a; Circ. 6, 14, 87; Volume 24) |
| Box 18 | Folder 20-22 |
Smith family
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| Box 18 | Folder 22a |
Smith family (folio - filed separately)
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| Box 18 | Folder 23 |
Stephen, Karin (Costelloe)
(see also: Box 18, folder 11, 12, 13, 22, 22a, 25, 34; Circ, 87, 102, 125; Volumes 27, 28, 34, 35, 36, 41, 44, 45) |
| Box 18 | Folder 24 |
Strachey, Christopher
(see also: Box 18, folder 26) |
| Box 18 | Folder 25 |
Strachey, Ray
(see also: Box 18, folder 11, 12, 13, 16, 22, 22a; Circ. 6, 29, 59, 63, 87, 102, 125, 129; Volumes 27, 28, 34, 35, 36, 41, 45) |
| Box 18 | Folder 26 |
Strachey family
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| Box 18 | Folder 27 |
Whitall family
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| Box 18 | Folder 28 |
Family and friends
(from disbound scrapbook) |
| Box 18 | Folder 29-33 |
Family and friends A - Z
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| Box 18 | Folder 34 |
Residences
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| Box 18 | Folder 35 |
Travel photos
(from disbound scrapbook) |
| Box 18 | Folder 36 |
Copies
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| Volume 1 |
An account of the illness and death of Elizabeth and Rebecca Reeves,
1832
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| Volume 2 |
Diary, Oct. 16, 1876-May 14, 1877
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| Volume 3 |
Address book
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| Volume 4 |
Diary, Jan. 1, 1877-July 3, 1878
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| Volume 5 |
Diary, Nov. 5, 1883-Feb. 1894
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| Volume 6 |
Scrapbook, 1892-1896
( see also: Box 17, folder 9) |
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| Volume 7 |
Scrapbook, 1898-1900
( see also: Box 17, folder 10) |
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| Volume 8 |
Address book
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| Volume 9 |
Commonplace book, 1879
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| Volume 10 |
Diary, vol. 2, Feb. 15-Oct. 6,
1849
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| Volume 11 |
Diary, vol. 3, Oct. 7, 1849-Feb. 11,
1850
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| Volume 12 |
Diary, vol. 4, 1850
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| Volume 13 |
Diary, vol. 5, Mar. 7-Oct. 26,
1851
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| Volume 14 |
Diary, vol. 6, Nov. 12, 1851-Jan. 2,
1856
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| Volume 15 |
Diary, vol. 7, Jan. 3, 1856-Dec. 28,
1857
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| Volume 16 |
Diary, vol. 8, Jan. 2, 1858-Sept. 9,
1867
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| Volume 17 |
Diary, vol. 9, Dec. 25, 1867-Sept. 25,
1868
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| Volume 18 |
Diary, vol. 10, Sept. 25, 1868-Dec. 30,
1880
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| Volume 19 |
Heavenly Bridegroom, extracts, May 1873-Nov. 1874
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| Volume 20 |
Letters, Jan. 13-May 19, 1874
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| Volume 21 |
Letters from England, copies, vol. 1, Jan.-Mar. 1874
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| Volume 22 |
Letters from England, copies, vol. 2, Mar.-July 11, 1874
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| Volume 23 |
Letters from England, copies, vol. 3, July 17-Sept. 12, 1874
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| Volume 24 |
Letters from England, May 25-June 27,
1875
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| Volume 25 |
Nelly, 1852-1858
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| Volume 26 |
"The Blue Book," Apr. 10, 1905-Sept. 13,
1906
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| Volume 27 |
Diary, Aug. 2, 1904-Dec. 13, 1905
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| Volume 28 |
Diary, July 4, 1906-Aug. 11, 1908
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| Volume 29 |
Diary, Feb. 5, 1913-Mar. 15, 1915
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| Volume 30 |
Address book
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| Volume 31 |
Aesthetic Criticisms
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| Volume 32 |
Conversations, 1906-1909
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| Volume 33 |
Diary, May 9-Aug. 31, 1900
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| Volume 34 |
Diary, Apr. 1, 1902-Sept. 15, 1903
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| Volume 35 |
Diary, Oct. 13, 1903-Sept. 12, 1904
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| Volume 36 |
Diary, Oct. 3, 1904-Sept. 8, 1908
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| Volume 37 |
Diary, Sept. 24, 1909-Nov. 23, 1914
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| Volume 38 |
Diary, Nov. 11, 1911-Mar. 26, 1916
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| Volume 39 |
Diary, Mar. 1924-Dec. 8, 1935
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| Volume 40 |
Diary (re: Barbara S. Halpern), Sept. 23, 1915-Apr. 29, 1916
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| Volume 41 |
Jan. 1896-Mar. 1897
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| Volume 42 |
Mar.-Nov. 1897
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| Volume 43 |
1897-1898
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| Volume 44 |
Apr.-Dec. 1898
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| Volume 45 |
Dec. 1898-Feb. 1899
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| Volume 46 |
1870-1899
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| Volume 47 |
1880-1902
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Circular Letters
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