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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906. Abby Kelley Foster correspondence, 1837-1887.

Title: Abby Kelley Foster correspondence, 1837-1887.

Abby Kelley Foster's correspondence primarily discusses abolition and women's rights. Correspondents include: Susan B. Anthony, Maria Chapman, Anna Dickinson, Stephen Foster, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Sallie Holley, Lucretia Mott, Wendell Phillips, Parker Pillsbury, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucy Stone.

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (2 linear feet).2 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228657136 View

Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874. Gerrit Smith correspondence, 1840-1873.

Title: Gerrit Smith correspondence, 1840-1873.

Letters written by Smith to E. M. Giffing, O. L. Holley, Sallie Holley, Luther R. Marsh, and Theodore Dwight Weld relating to abolition of slavery, Smith's donation of land to freedmen, Civil War, and Reconstruction. Includes note of Smith's wife, Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith, to Angelina Emily Grimké (Mrs. Theodore Dwight Weld) and her sister, Sarah Moore Grimké.

ArchivalResource: 13 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70980473 View

Elizur Wright Papers, 1793-1935, (bulk 1830-1885)

Title: Elizur Wright Papers 1793-1935 (bulk 1830-1885)

Reformer, publisher, and actuary. Correspondence, manuscript and typewritten transcripts of writings, legal and financial papers, scrapbooks, clippings, printed material, photographs, and other papers relating chiefly to Wright’s involvement in the antislavery movement and to his work as an actuary and as an author and translator.

ArchivalResource: 5,300 items; 29 containers; 8 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011130 View

Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.

Title: Louisa May Alcott papers, 1849-1931.

Papers pertaining primarily to the works of American author Louisa May Alcott.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes (2 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00659/catalog View

Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888. [Letters] / L. M. Alcott.

Title: [Letters] / L. M. Alcott.

Letter [1876] Nov. 26 to Miss Holly (Sallie Holley). Published in: The selected letters of Louisa May Alcott / eds. Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy (1987), p. 218. Letter [n.d.] to Miss Pratt, Concord, Mass. Autograph fragment, signed. "Medford, Mass." on verso. n.d. Photograph, n.d.

ArchivalResource: 4 items

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144730618 View

Caroline F. Putnam papers 1868-1895 1868-1877 Putnam, Caroline F. papers

Title: Caroline F. Putnam papers 1868-1895 1868-1877 Putnam, Caroline F. papers

This collection consists of personal letters that Caroline F. Putnam, an antislavery activist and schoolteacher, wrote to Sallie Holley and Emily Howland, her colleagues and friends, between 1868 and around 1877. Putnam described the everyday challenges of running a school for freed slaves in Lottsburg, Virginia, as well as Reconstruction politics in the postwar South.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 linear feet

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clementsead/umich-wcl-M-4499put?rgn=main;view=text View

Samuel May photographs, ca. 1885-1899.

Title: Samuel May photographs, ca. 1885-1899.

Photographs collected by Samuel May, Unitarian minister of Leicester, Mass. Most of the photographs relate to the Holley School, a charitable school for black children run by Caroline F. Putnam in Lottsburgh, Va. These photographs were sent by Putnam to May between 1896-1899 and include views of the interior and exterior of the school, photographs of Putnam and her companion Sallie Holley, abolitionist and teacher, and various students and other teachers at the school. There are also a number of cyanotype photographs of Russell family gravestones at the Phipps Street Cemetery in Charlestown, Mass., taken in Nov. 1899 by an unknown photographer.

ArchivalResource: 23 photographs in 1 narrow box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56412821 View

Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893. [Letter from Sallie Holley, Lottsburgh, Virginia, to her cousin Harrietta W. Brand, Anchorage, Kentucky]

Title: [Letter from Sallie Holley, Lottsburgh, Virginia, to her cousin Harrietta W. Brand, Anchorage, Kentucky] 1890.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ; 26 x 38 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71844660 View

Howland, Emily, 1827-1929. Emily Howland papers, 1797-1938.

Title: Emily Howland papers, 1797-1938.

Collection consists primarily of correspondence; letters discuss attempts to establish schools for escaped slaves and freedmen in the South, abolition, Oberlin College President Charles Grandison Finney's opinion of John Brown and other abolitionists, the women's suffrage movement (especially in New York State), women's higher education, temperance, the Universal Peace movement, the National Arbitration League of Washington, aspects of Quaker life, the Society of Friends, the Freedmen's Bureau, and other issues. Correspondents include Isabel Howland, Caroline F. Putnam, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Sallie Holley, Antoinette Brown Blackwell, Cornelia Hancock, Amanda Sanford Hickey, Rev. John D. Read, Emma V. Brown, Booker T. Washington, Herbert Howland (while traveling in England, France, and Egypt), Hanna Letchworth Howland, Joseph and Richard Tallcott, Samuel Parsons, Ebenezer Burnham, George Lincoln Burr (to Isabel Howland), Lillie Devereux Blake, Mary E. Bowman, Gulielma Breed, Phoebe Hathaway, Henry Ince, J. R. Johnson, Alfred H. Love, E. Nash, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, L. W. Stebbins, and Julia A. Wilbur. Also, papers of the related Tallcott and Howland families, and printed items containing letters and other information concerning the Rev. John D. Read and family.

ArchivalResource: 6.8 cubic ft., 15 reels positive, 15 reels negative microfilm.

https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM02681.html View

May, Samuel, 1810-1899. Papers, 1825-1903.

Title: Papers, 1825-1903.

Papers of Samuel May, Unitarian minister of Leicester, Mass. Correspondence, diaries, sermons (1830-71), commonplace-books, and student notebooks of Samuel May and Caroline F. Putnam. Letters of Miss Putnam describe her administration of the Holley School, a charitable school for Black children at Lottsburgh, Va., problems of antislavery agents, the local scene, and the work of abolitionists and reformers Abigail Kelley Foster and Sallie Holley. May's papers relate to his schooling at Harvard College and Divinity School, his ministry, and his involvement in the New England abolitionist movement. Includes annotated Boston almanacs (1837-94) and records of statistics and activities of the town of Leicester.

ArchivalResource: 13 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16634246 View

Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884. Papers, 1555-1882 (bulk: 1833-1881)

Title: Wendell Phillips papers, 1555-1882 (inclusive) 1833-1881 (bulk).

Correspondence, compositions, and other papers of American abolitionist Wendell Phillips.

ArchivalResource: 52 boxes (17.3 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00497/catalog View

Holley, Sallie, d. 1893. Scrapbook, 1863-1893.

Title: Scrapbook, 1863-1893.

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings of articles and letters to editors, many of them written by Sallie Holley, William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips and dealing with social conditions for African-Americans between 1863 and 1893; includes a reply to Horace Greeley's statement that women need not be enfranchised.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 20 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/37237323 View

Foster, Abby Kelley, 1811-1887. Papers, 1837-1893.

Title: Papers, 1837-1893.

This collection is a microfilm copy of the Abigail Kelley Foster Papers, 1837-1887, owned by the Worcester Historical Museum. There is also later correspondence of her daughter, Paulina ("Alla") Wright Foster (1847-1925), 1887-1893, to family members following her mother's death, and Abigail Kelley Foster's personal accounts as well as accounts kept by her for the American Anti-Slavery Society. The principle correspondents include: Stephen Symonds Foster, Paulina Wright Foster, Wendell Phillips (1811-1884), William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879), Sallie Holley (1818-1893), Maria Weston Chapman (1806-1885), and Edmund Quincy (1808-1877). The letters illuminate her role in the Anti-Slavery Society, her lecture tours, the women's rights movement, and her relationship with her husband and daughter. There is a circular containing testimonials to Garrison's Liberator, details of Abigail Kelley Foster's role in the New England Non-Resistance Society, a lengthy reminiscence written for her daughter, c. 1883, her marriage certificate, address book, and the deed to the Fosters' farm in Worcester, 1847.

ArchivalResource: 1 microfilm reel : positive ; 35 mm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/214071222 View

Tatnuck Ladies' Sewing Circle. Records, 1847-1950.

Title: Records, 1847-1950.

The collection includes seven octavo volumes, 1847-1950, and one folder of miscellaneous loose manuscripts, ca. 1879-ca. 1949. The volumes are primarily minutes of meetings but they include copies of the constitution, lists of members and officers, records of receipts and expenditures, some newspaper clippings about club activities, brief obituaries of members, and descriptions of social gatherings.

ArchivalResource: 7 v. ; octavo.1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191259798 View

Letter from Sallie Holley (Lottsburgh, Virginia) to her cousin Harrietta W. Brand (Anchorage, Kentucky), April 8, 1890

Title: Letter from Sallie Holley (Lottsburgh, Virginia) to her cousin Harrietta W. Brand (Anchorage, Kentucky) April 8, 1890

A letter from abolitionist and civil rights worker Sallie Holley (Lottsburgh, Virginia) to her cousin Harrietta Brand (Anchorage, Kentucky), April 8, 1890. Holley writes of her activities with family and friends during a recent trip to Brooklyn, New York, where she also attended readings conducted by the American Dante Society.

ArchivalResource: 2 leaves

http://hdl.handle.net/10407/5904436893 View