Hooker collection, 1788-1890 (inclusive)

Abstract

Correspondence by housewives and women schoolteachers on such subjects as education, politics, marriage, local and family news, and social life and customs. Included are letters between Lucy Gray and her husband, a Cape Cod sea captain; letters, many of which deal with religious subjects, from friends and relatives to Weltha Brown, a Hartford, CT, schoolteacher; letters in which Hannah Buchanan of Maryland describes to her absent husband the problems of running a plantation; letters by authors Sarah Edgarton and Luella J.B. Case; and a letter by Dolley Madison.

Hooker Collection. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.

Unpublished finding aid; see also Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library..., The Manuscript Inventories and the Catalogs...10v., (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1984)

Electronic finding aid available http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:RAD.SCHL:sch00097

There is related material: Lucy and Joshua Gray correspondence in the Gray family correspondence at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University.