Chapman Family Papers, 1808-1983.

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Chapman Family Papers, 1808-1983.

http://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/resources/5260mwch

The collection includes correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and her husband, Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family copybooks and albums, and financial records, including an account book of the Manhassett Association of Relief, 1861-1871. Correspondents include: Martha R. Almy, Mary S. Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Helen H. Backus, Alice Stone Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, Harriot Stanton Blatch, John Graham Brooks, Carrie Chapman Catt, Charles H Chapman, Joseph B. Chapman, Mary W. Chapman, Augusta L. Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill Curtis, Emily L. DeGarmo, Jean Brooks Greenleaf, Florence Howe Hall, Fannie Helmuth, Julia M Hitchcock, Franklin William Hooper, Emily Howland, Mary D. Hussey, Mary Putnam Jacobi,, Otto Kelsey, Caroline B. LeRow, Mary Hillard Loines, Martha Mott Lord, Josephine Shaw Lowell, Manhasset Association of Relief, Olive Thorne Miller, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955), Hannah A Plummer, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy) Powell, Anna Rice Powell, Mary J. O'Donovan Rossa,, Mary T. Seccomb, Anna Howard Shaw, Charles Rufus Skinner, Elizabeth H. Sprague, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha J. Hadley Stebbins, Lucy Stone, Ann Titus, Charlotte C. Turner, Harriet Taylor Upton, Amos Willets, Caroline Willets, Amos W Wright, Aron Wright, and Mary W. Wright.

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