Diaries, 1837-1868.

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Diaries, 1837-1868.

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Diaries and commonplace books, 1837-1868, including two volumes of diaries by Todd's daughter, Sarah Anne Green. Both women were active in the Baptist church, and the diaries include many pious reflections, religious poems, notes on sermons, etc. They also describe family deaths and births, social life, prayer meetings, and the affairs of the First Baptist Church and the American and Foreign Bible Society. Todd also mentions illnesses, numerous operations to restore her husband's sight, visits to Greenwood Cemetery, the activities of the Female Bible Society, and travels to such places as Niagara Falls and Saratoga Springs, where she makes disapproving mention of the Women's Rights convention held there in 1854. She states that she is writing the diary for her children. Two volumes are explicitly dedicated to daughters, one to Sarah Anne Green, the other to Maria L. Todd. The volumes include other material besides diary entries: poems, some by friends, clippings, ephemera, drawings and watercolors, woodcuts, lithographs, a lock of hair, and dried leaves and flowers, including two leaves from China given her by a missionary. One volume, entitled Sacred Album, is entirely taken up with poems, illustrations, etc., many contributed by family and friends. The first volume of Green's diaries, begun in the year of her mother's death, includes many references to mourning for her mother, and dried flowers picked on her grave in Greenwood Cemetery. One of the last entries in her second volume describes her being moved to tears while reading her mother's diaries.

8 v.

New-York Historical Society

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American and Foreign Bible Society

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Green family.

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Todd, Maria L.

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National Woman's Rights Convention

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Todd family.

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Green-Wood Cemetery (New York, N.Y.)

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The Green-Wood Cemetery, established in 1838, was designed by David Bates Douglass to be used both as a cemetery and as a public space. It served as a park to Brooklyn and Manhattan residents before Central Park and Prospect Park were constructed and was also used as an inspiration for the design of Central Park by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Located in what is now the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, people have visited the cemetery over the years to pay respect to...

First Baptist Church in the City of New-York

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Todd, William Whetten, b. 1781.

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Green, Sarah Anne, b. 1813.

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Todd, Maria C., 1788-1857.

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Resident of New York City; wife of William Whetten Todd. From the description of Diaries, 1837-1868. (New York University, Group Batchload). WorldCat record id: 58774453 ...