Papers of Anne Whitney, 1834-1915: a guide.
MSS.4

Summary Information

Repository
Wellesley College Archives
Creator
Whitney, Anne, 1821-1915
Title
Papers of Anne Whitney, 1834-1915
Date
1834-1915
ID
MSS.4
Extent
12.6 Linear feet(13 file boxes, 14 oversize boxes)
Abstract
This collection is composed of correspondence to and from Anne Whitney, a poet and sculptor from the Boston area who was active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Correspondents include her family members, artists and writers, and social activists. The collection also includes business and financial records, poetry, and photographs ofWhitney's work, as well as items belonging to her partner Abby Adeline (or Addy) Manning.

Preferred Citation

Papers of Anne Whitney, MSS.4, Wellesley College Archives

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Biographical/Historical Note

Anne Whitney (1821-1915) was a poet and sculptor who lived and worked in the Boston area. She was raised in Watertown, the youngest of seven children in a liberal Unitarian family. Whitney ran a small school in Salem from 1846-1848 and published a volume of poetry before turning to sculpture in the late 1850s, studying in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia as well as Italy and France. Whitney took on challenging subject matter; her Africa depicts a woman awakening from the sleep of slavery and her Roma represents the plight of Roman citizens under the papacy. She created a number of busts and statues, most notably Samuel Adams in the United States Capitol, Charles Sumner in Harvard Square in Cambridge, and Leif Erikson on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in Boston. As a philanthropist, Whitney worked for organizations supporting abolition, women's suffrage, and the New England landscape.

Whitney met her longtime partner, the painter Addy Manning (1836-1906), while boarding at Manning's family home in Brooklyn in 1859; they were together until Manning's death.

The Whitney family had ties to Wellesley College. Whitney's mother was invited to the opening of the College and Whitney herself taught here for at least a semester; she was a friend of President Alice Freeman Palmer and her husband George Herbert Palmer, as well as Wellesley professors Eben Horsford and Vita Scudder. Wellesley College owns seven of Whitney's sculptures, including portraits of the Palmers and Horsford, and a bronze cast of Roma; her seated Harriet Martineau was a focal point in College Hall until it was destroyed in the 1914 fire.

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Scope and Content

The majority of this collection is made up of Whitney's correspondence with her family, friends, and partner Addy Manning. Other correspondents include contemporary artists, writers, and social activists. Most letters are either to or from Whitney, although some are to her sister Sarah, Manning, and others. The content of the correspondence covers Whitney's personal and professional life, as well as current events and her travels to Europe. There is a small amount of material pertaining to Whitney's finances, including documentation of stock purchases and donation receipts, in addition to three albums of photographs, genealogical information, correspondence relating to the campaign to boycott the slogan "Remember the Maine," manuscript copies of Whitney's poems and a study of French art, and photographs of Whitney's sculptures. Also included are items which belonged to Addy Manning, including her diaries, commonplace books, and engagement books. Biographer and Wellesley alumna Elizabeth Rogers Payne '26 worked with the collection in the 1960s.

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Arrangement

This collection is divided into six series: I. Correspondence ; II. Personal ; III. Business, Charity, and Activism ; IV. Writings ; V. Addy Manning ; VI. Photographs. The Correspondence series is organized chronologically and alphabetically by correspondent.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Wellesley College Archives

Access

Access to fragile and digitized materials may be restricted.

Copyright

Copyright in some papers in the collection may be held by the authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written permission on the holder(s) of copyright before publishing quotations from any material in the collection.

Custodial History

The bulk of the correspondence in this collection was willed by Anne Whitney to her friend, writer Olive Tilford Dargan, for eventual publication. Mrs. Dargan, however, was unable to do so and instead gave the papers to Antoinette Rotan Peterson, who gifted them to Wellesley College in 1944. Elizabeth Rogers Payne worked with the collection in the 1960s. During this time, she was allowed to remove documents from the library to facilitate her research. Two scrapbooks listed in a 1960 inventory disappeared after Payne's death.

Acquisition Information

The papers were a gift of Antoinette Rotan Peterson to the Wellesley College Library in 1944. Accruals have been made to the collection.

Processing History

An inventory of the collection was completed in 1960 by Whitney biographer Elizabeth Rogers Payne. The organization she created was largely kept intact in the current arrangement. This is most notable in the separation of alphabetical and chronological correspondence. Numerous notes were added to the collection, most of which have now been removed. Payne's notations on the original documents remain.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Chrissy Hartman, under the guidance of Jane A. Callahan, Spring 2012.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

Wellesley College Special Collections holds both editions of Anne Whitney's poetry. In addition, the Davis Museum holds seven of her sculptures. Archives also houses the typescript of Elizabeth Rogers Payne's unpublished biography of Anne Whitney.

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Collection Inventory

I. Correspondence 1834-1915 

Scope and Content

The series contains correspondence between Anne Whitney and her friends, family, colleagues, and associates. The content of the correspondence focuses on Whitney's family, travel, and business. The correspondence was divided into two subseries, with an alphabetical and a chronological organization, by Whitney biographer Elizabeth Rogers Payne. The chronological subseries chiefly documents her travels and is mainly comprised of correspondence between Whitney, Manning, and Whitney's sister Sarah. The alphabetical series consists mainly of correspondence to Whitney. Notations including dates and the identification of correspondents on the letters and envelopes come mostly from Payne.

Some letters from the series have been catalogued individually and are stored in the following boxes:

MSS.4.1-50: Oversize Box 8

MSS.4.51-100: Oversize Box 9

MSS.4.101-150: Oversize Box 10

MSS.4.151-200: Oversize Box 11

MSS.4.201-250: Oversize Box 12

MSS.4.251-300: Oversize Box 13

MSS.4.301-354: Oversize Box 14
A. Chronological 1846-1905 

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence between Anne Whitney, her sister Sarah, and Addy Manning. The majority of the letters written by Anne Whitney appear in this subseries. Included are letters documenting Whitney's visits to Europe, New Orleans, and Cuba.
Title Box Folder
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1846  11 1
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1846    11 2
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1846  11 3
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1846  11 4
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1848-1849  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1850  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney, 1850  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney, 1851  11 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney, 1851  11 2
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1851  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1851  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning and Sarah Whitney, 1853-1860  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1854-1857  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1859  11 1
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1859  11 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1860  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1860  11 1
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1860  11 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1860  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1861  11
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1861-1862, undated    11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1862  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1863  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning and Sarah Whitney, 1864  11
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1864-1865  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1865  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1866  11
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1866-1867  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1866  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1867  11
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1871  12 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1871  12 2
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1871  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1872  12
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1972  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1873  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1873  12
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1873  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1874  12
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1874  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1875  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1876  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1877  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1878    12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1879  12 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1879  12 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1879  12 3
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1879  12 4
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1880  12 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1880  12 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning and Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1881  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning and Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1882  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1883  12
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1883  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1884  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1884  12 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1884  12 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney and Edward Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1884  12 3
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1885  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1885  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1885  12 2
Letters from Adeline Manning to Sarah Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1885  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1886  12 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1886  12 2
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1886  12
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1887  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1888  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1889  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney and Adeline Manning, 1889  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1890  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1891  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney; letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1891  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1892  13
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1892  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1893  13
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1893  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1894  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1894  13 1
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1894  13 2
Letters from Anne Whitney to Sarah Whitney, 1894  13 3
Letters from Sarah Whitney to Anne Whitney, 1894  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1895  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning, 1896-1900  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1901  13
Letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1902  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1903  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1904  13
Letters from Anne Whitney to Adeline Manning; letters from Adeline Manning to Anne Whitney, 1905  13
Miscellaneous, 1846-1894  13
B. Alphabetical 1834-1915 

Scope and Content

Contains correspondence between Anne Whitney and her family, friends, artistic contemporaries, fellow authors, business associates, and social activists. The series has letters both to and from Whitney, as well as some in which she is not a correspondent. Major correspondents include Fidelia Bridges, Maria Weston Chapman, Louise Imogen Guiney, Antoinette Rotan Peterson, Reverend George S. Pratt, and Margaret Whitney Pratt. Some folders contain poems, postcards, holiday cards, newspaper articles, or other items.
Title Box Folder
Alcott, Louisa May, [1883?] (1 letter); Pratt, Anna B. (Mrs. Alcott Pratt), 1888 (1 letter)  1
Allen, Katherine, 1900-1906   (3 letters) 1
Ayres, Philip W., 1912-1913   (3 letters) 1

General note

Associated institution: The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests
Baker, Mary I., 1907   (1 letter) 1
Ball, Ellen L. (Mrs. Thomas), 1875   (1 letter) 1
Bartlett, Lucia, 1907-1914   (8 letters) 1
Bartol, Elizabeth H., 1902-1914   (19 letters) 1
Bates, Charles Austin, 1911-1912   (2 letters) 1
Beaux, Cecilia, 1908   (1 letter) 1
Bell, Helen C., 1913   ( 1 letter) 1
Bellamy, Edward, 1880-1890   (6 letters) 1
Betts, Emma Whitney (Mrs. Edward Richmond Betts), 1894-1906   (7 letters) 1
Betts, Florence Whitney (Mrs. George Arthur Betts), 1906-1913, undated   (4 letters) 1
Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1911-1914   (17 letters) 1
Bolles, Elizabeth Howe (Mrs. H. Eugene), 1911   (4 letters) 1
Bolles, Frank, 1893   (2 letters) 1
Borland, Madeline, 1899-1900 (3 letters); Lee, Madeline (granddaughter), 1900 (1 letter)  1
Botume, Elizabeth H., 1894   (2 letters) 1
Boutwell, George S. (Governor of Massachusetts), 1900   (1 letter) 1
Bowditch, James H., 1899-1901   (4 letters) 1

General note

Associated institution: Massachusetts Forestry Association
Branch, Anna Hempstead, 1904-1909   (8 letters) 1
Breck, Mary Adams, 1914   (2 letters) 1
Bremer, Fredrika, 1851-1852   (5 letters) 1
Bridges, Fidelia, 1902-1915   (41 letters) 1
Brooks, Phillips, 1889   (1 letter) 1
Brown, Alice, 1900-1913   (3 letters) 1
Brown, Henry Kirke, 1859   (1 letter) 1
Brownell, W.C., 1913   (1 letter) 1
Bucklin, Jane W., 1912   (2 letters) 1
Burgess, Elizabeth W., 1912   (1 letter) 1

General note

Associated institution: Elizabeth Peabody House
Burgess, Lydia J., 1914   (3 letters) 1
Cahill, Dr. E.B., 1912-1914   (15 letters) 1
Camia, Joseph A., 1908   (1 letter) 1
Campbell, Charles F.F., 1906   (1 letter) 1

General note

Associated institution: Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Blind
Carroll, Bertha, 1906   (1 letter) 1
Chadwick, Reverend John W., 1887, 1903   (2 letters) 1
Chamberlin, Mrs. Ella M., 1883   (1 letter) 1
Chapman, Maria Weston (Letters to Anne Whitney), 1857-1885, undated   (23 letters) 2
Chapman, Maria Weston (Letters from Anne Whitney), 1878-1881   (27 letters) 2
Chapman, Maria Weston (Letters from Anne Whitney), 1882-1885   (43 letters) 2
Cheney, Dr. Frederick E., 1912-1913   (2 letters) 2
Child, L. Maria, 1877-1880   (22 letters) 2
Claflin, M.B., undated   (1 letter) 2
Clemmer, Mary, 1882   (1 letter) 2
Cobb, Mrs. Katherine, 1906   (1 letter) 2
Converse, Florence, 1901-1914   (16 letters) 2
Crothers, Stella Reid, 1906-1907   (3 letters) 2

General note

Associated institution: The Home Magazine
Dabney, Julia P., 1906 (1 letter); Stevens, Alice B., 1906 (1 letter)  2
Dahlweiner, Karoline, undated   (1 letter) 2
Dall, Caroline Healy, 1855-1861 (3 letters); Dall, William H. (son) 1911 (1)  2
Dargan, Mrs. Olive Tilford, 1911-1912   (4 letters) 2
Day, Fred Holland, 1912   (1 letter) 2
Dill, Louise, 1913-1914   (2 letters) 2
Donald, E. Winchester, 1898   (1 letter) 2
Downes, Lettie, 1914   (1 letter) 2
Dudley, Helena S., 1906   (1 letter) 2
Dunbar, Olivia Howard, 1911   (1 letter) 2
Emerson, Ellen T., 1905-1908 (8 letters); Emerson, Dr. Edward W. (brother), 1908-1909 (3 letters); Forbes, Edith Emerson (sister), 1909 (2 letters)  2
Emerson, Wm. Ralph, 1889   (1 letter) 2
Enza, Pat Z., undated   (1 letter) 2
Fay, Professor Charles E., 1904-1914   (21 letters) 2
Fay, Mary W., 1912   (1 letter) 2
Fay, Sarah B., 1898   (3 letters) 2
Fields, Annie Adams (Mrs. James T.), 1874-1914   (16 letters) 2
Field, Charles Manning, 1905-1906   (3 letters) 2
Foster, Elisabeth B., 1912, 1915   (2 letters) 2
Fowler, Mary Howard, 1911   (1 letter) 3

General note

Associated institution: Memorial Home for the Blind
French, Daniel Chester, 1881, 1887, 1914   (3 letters) 3
Garland, Hamlin, undated   (2 letters) 3
Garland, William H., 1912   (1 letter) 3
Garrison, Francis Jackson, 1881-1914   (9 letters) 3
Garrison, Wendell Phillips, 1878   (1 letter) 3
Garrison, William Lloyd Jr., 1882-1906   (5 letters) 3
Gilbert, Mrs. J.T., 1887   (1 letter) 3
Goodale, Dr. George Lincoln, 1899-1914 (28 letters); Goodale, Henrietta J., 1903-1905 (2 letters)  3
Goodrich, Henrietta, undated   (1 letter) 3

General note

Associated institution: Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Grahm, William, 1890   (2 letters) 3
Greene, Elizabeth Bigelow, 1906-1915   (12 letters) 3
Grimes, Frances, 1911   (3 letters) 3
Griswold, Carolyn Peters, 1906, 1913, undated   (4 letters) 3
Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1894-1914   (98 letters) 3 1
Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1894-1914   (98 letters) 3 2
Guiney, Louise Imogen, 1894-1914   (98 letters) 3 3
Gully, Dr. J.W. (or J.M.), [1876?]   (1 letter) 3
Hale, Martha, 1901, 1906   (3 letters) 3
Hale, Mary, 1904   (1 letter) 3
Hemenway, Mary Tileston, 1881   (2 letters) 3
Higginson, Ida Agassiz (Mrs. Henry L.), 1911-1914   (18 letters) 3
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1852, 1953, 1864   (3 letters) 3
Hill, Marion O., 1912   (1 letter) 3
Hodder, Mrs. Mahalie R., 1906-1914   (9 letters) 3
Hodgkins, Louise Manning, 1894   (1 letter) 3
Holland, Harriet N., 1863, undated   (2 letters) 3
Hocker, Isabella B. (Mrs. John H.), 1892-1895   (4 letters) 3
Hooper, Susan Thayer, 1911   (1 letter) 3

General note

Associated institution: Denison House
Hosmer, Harriet, undated   (4 letters) 3
Hovey, Marion, undated   (1 letter) 4
Howard, Louise, 1911, 1914   (3 letters) 4
Howard, Marion (Mrs. Brazier), 1913   (1 letter) 4
Howe, Julie Ward, undated   (1 letter) 4
Howells, William Dean, 1885, 1891   (3 letters) 4
Hudson, Mary R., 1894   (4 letters) 4
Irwin, Agnes, 1898   (3 letters) 4
Jaggar, T.A. Jr., 1911-1912   (3 letters) 4
Jarves, J.J., 1887   (1 letter) 4
Jewett, Sarah Orne, 1895   (2 letters) 4
Johnson, Samuel (Reverend of Salem), 1859   (3 letters) 4
Kehew, Mary Morton, 1906, 1913   (2 letters) 4

General note

Associated institution: Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Kendall, W.M., 1900   (1 letter) 4
Knapp, Lucia Alden, 1907, 1912, 1914   (3 letters) 4
Lambert, Catharine Brown Porter (Letters to Anne Whitney), 1868-1898   (25 letters) 4
Lambert, Catharine Brown Porter (Letters from Anne Whitney), [1863]-1899   (25 letters) 4
Lay, Oliver, 1876   (1 letter) 4
Lee, Anna C., 1906   (1 letter) 4
Leighton, J.A. and Emma L., 1912   (3 letters) 4
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1859-1860   (12 letters) 4
Lincoln, Fanny Chandler, 1911, 1913 (7 letters); Lincoln, Waldo, [1911] (1 letter)  4
Livermore, Mary A., 1883-1903   (29 letters) 4
Manning, Elizabeth, 1862   (2 letters) 4
Manning, Henry Swan, 1906   (1 letter) 4
Manning, Mary Weeks, 1860, 1863, 1895   (3 letters) 4
Manning, Richard Henry, 1854-1887   (8 letters) 4
McLaughlin, M.A., 1912   (1 letter) 4
McLellan, Ida, 1906, 1912   (2 letters) 4
Mitchell, Ruth Peters (Mrs. Henry Brainerd), 1906   (1 letter) 4
Morgan, Gwenillian, 1912-1913   (2 letters) 4
Morton, Dr. Helen, 1894-1914   (39 letters) 4
Mosman, M.H., 1887   (1 letter) 4
Moulton, Louise Chandler, 1895, 1906, undated   (6 letters) 5
Munroe, James P., 1907   (1 letter) 5
Murphy, Dorothy Peters (Mrs. Alfred Murphy), 1912   (2 letters) 5
Mussey, Mabel Hay Barrows, 1914   (1 letter) 5
North, Marianne, undated   (3 letters) 5
Norton, Charles Eliot, 1894   (1 letter) 5
Olmstead, F.L., 1886   (3 letters) 5
Olmstead, Marion, 1907   (3 letters) 5
Orvis, Marianne Dwight, 1876   (1 letter) 5
Osborn, Evanette F., undated (3 letters); Mundy, Ethel Frances, 1912 (1 letter)  5

General note

Associated institution: Women's Educational and Industrial Union
Palmer, George Herbert, 1891-1912   (16 letters) 5
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1886-[1902]   (6 letters) 5
Parsons, Anna, 1906   (1 letter) 5
Peters, Mary Whitney (Mrs. John Peters), 1906   (1 letter) 5
Peterson, Mrs. Antoinette R. (Letters to Anne Whitney), 1907-1914   (55 letters) 5 1
Peterson, Mrs. Antoinette R. (Letters to Anne Whitney), 1907-1914   (55 letters) 5 2
Peterson, Mrs. Antoinette R. (Letters from Anne Whitney), 1907-1910   (29 letters) 5
Peterson, Mrs. Antoinette R. (Letters from Anne Whitney), 1911-1914   (24 letters) 5
Philippy, Daniel R., 1911, 1913, undated   (4 letters) 5
Phillips, Wendell, [1859], 1874-1877, [1881-1883]    (7 letters) 5
Pickering, Edward C., 1888   (1 letter) 5
Pickering, L.S., 1889, undated   (2 letters) 5
Pierce, Dr. Helen F., 1914   (2 letters) 5
Pike, T.B., 1898   (2 letters) 5
Porter, Charlotte, 1914   (1 letter) 5
Porter, John, 1864   (1 letter) 5
Porter, Mariana Cushing, 1900-1914   (9 letters) 5
Post, Alice Thacher, 1900   (1 letter) 5

General note

Associated institution: The Public
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1890-1902   (8 letters) 6
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1900   (8 letters) 5
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1901-1902   (7 letters) 6
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1903   (11 letters) 6
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1904   (3 letters) 6
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1905-1906   (8 letters) 6
Pratt, Reverend George A., 1907-1914   (21 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1888-1895   (10 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1896-1899   (12 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1899-1903   (12 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1904-1905   (10 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1906   (9 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1906-1908   (9 letters) 6
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1908-1910   (9 letters) 7
Pratt, Margaret Whitney (Mrs. George Pratt), 1910-1914   (12 letters) 7
Price, Susan I., 1894   (1 letter) 7
Proctor, Edna Dean, 1889   (1 letter) 7
Putnam, Grace S., 1911   (1 letter) 7
Putnam, Mary K., 1861, 1864   (2 letters) 7
Putnam, Sarah, undated   (2 letters) 7

General note

1 letter includes a watercolor painting
Recchia, Frank, 1902   (1 letter) 7
Rice, Dr. Charles Elmer, 1912   (1 letter) 7
Richards, Reverend James Austin, 1912   (1 letter) 7

General note

Associated institution: Mount Vernon Church
[Richards, William Trost?], 1860   (1 letter) 7
Rickert, Edith, 1911   (1 letter) 7
Riley, Louisa L., 1905-1906   (4 letters) 7
Rogers, Antoinette P., 1912-1913   (2 letters) 7
Rollins, Susan B., 1884   (1 letter) 7
Royce, Josiah, 1898   (2 letters) 7
Sage, Dean, 1912   (1 letter) 7
Sage, Sarah Manning (Mrs. Dean Sage), 1891-1914   (9 letters) 7
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1887   (1 letter) 7
Scudder, Harriet L., 1906   (2 letters) 7
Scudder, R.C (Mrs. Marshall Scudder), 1910-1914   (8 letters) 7
Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1901-1914   (27 letters) 7

General Note

Includes Whitney's thoughts on her statue of Harriet Martineau dictated by Whitney to Scudder.
Sears, Rosa Helen, 1913   (1 letter) 7
Seymour, Alviera, 1860   (1 letter) 7
Seymour, M., 1912   (1 letter) 7
Shannon, Mary C., 1862-1979   (3 letters) 7
Sheffield, Gertrude F., 1906   (1 letter) 7
Silsbee, Marianne Cabot Devereaux, undated   (4 letters) 7
Smith, Lucy H., 1906   (1 letter) 7
Somerset, Isabel (Lady Henry of Eastnor Castle, Ledbury England), 1892-1898   (8 letters) 7
Spenser, Edwina, 1903-1906   (9 letters) 7
Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 1862-1914   (32 letters) 8 1
Spofford, Harriet Prescott, 1862-1914   (32 letters) 8 2
Stanwood, Louie, undated   (1 letter) 8
Stebbins, Emma, 1873-1882   (14 letters) 8
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1888   (1 letter) 8

General note

Associated institution: Charles L. Webster & Co., Publishers
Steiniger-Clark, Anna, 1890   (1 letter) 8
Stevenson, Katharine Lente, 1898   (1 letter) 8

General note

Associated institution: Women's Christian Temperance Union
Stewart, Jane A., 1906   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Charles Augustus, 1899-1914   (21 letters) 8
Stone, Charles Hobart and Augusta, 1884   (1 letter) 8
Stone, John Howard, 1913   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Lizzie E. (Mrs. James C.), 1901   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Mary C. Mellon, 1913   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Joseph Watson, 1884   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Lucy, undated   (1 letter) 8
Stone, Walter H. and Minnie, 1906, 1914   (3 letters) 8
Strayer, Emily Betts Loomis, 1905-1906   (3 letters) 8
Sturgis, Russell Jr., 1865   (1 letter) 8
Thurber, Elizabeth, 1907-1914   (12 letters) 8
Thurber, Lizette, 1907-1913   (4 letters) 8
Thursby, Emma C., 1888   (1 letter) 8
Tufts, Helen P., 1914   (3 letters) 8
Underwood, Sara A., 1893   (2 letters) 8
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1906   (1 letter) 8
Ware, Mary Lee, 1906, 1913   (2 letters) 8
Ware, W.R., undated   (1 letter) 8
Washington, Booker T. and Margaret James, 1894-1896   (6 letters) 8

General note

Associated institution: Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Wells, Kate Gannett, 1906   (1 letter) 8
Whitney, Alexander, 1835-1842   (17 letters) 8
Whitney, Caroline A. Rogers (Mrs. Edward Whitney), 1860   (2 letters) 8
Whitney, Charles Sumner, 1886   (1 letter) 8
Whitney, Edward, 1859, 1876-1886   (9 letters) 8
Whitney, Frank M., 1895-1912   (4 letters) 8
Whitney, James Frothingham, 1838-1885   (32 letters) 9 1
Whitney, James Frothingham, 1838-1885   (32 letters) 9 2
Whitney, James Frothingham Jr., 1913-1914   (13 letters) 9
Whitney, John (Jonathan Stone), 1839-1860   (22 letters) 9
Whitney, Mary Cook (Mrs. James Frothingham Jr.), 1900-1913   (15 letters) 9
Whitney, Mary Henderson Eskildson (Mrs. James F. Whitney), 1894-1906   (3 letters) 9
Whitney, Nathaniel Ruggles II, 1834-1835   (3 letters) 9
Whitney, Sarah Stone (Mrs. Nathaniel R. Whitney), 1834, 1883, 1884   (5 letters) 9

General note

Includes envelope of materials relating to Sarah Stone Whitney's 100th birthday as well as a copy of a poem read at her funeral
Whitney, William, 1881   (1 letter) 9

General note

Contains silhouette cutouts
Whitwell, Mary, 1889, 1913, undated   (3 letters) 9
Willard, Frances E., 1892-1895   (7 letters) 9

General note

Associated institution: Women's Christian Temperance Union
Willard, Mary Hill, 1892   (1 letter) 9
Willy, Matilda, 1894   (1 letter) 9
Wilson, Alice C. (Mrs. Fred A. Wilson), 1912, 1914   (2 letters) 9
Wilson, Mrs. B.E., 1912   (1 letter) 9
Windram, Kate R., undated   (1 letter) 9
Winslow, Erving, 1906-1914   (10 letters) 9
Youmans, E.A., 1904   (1 letter) 9
Young, Louise C., 1894   (2 letters) 9
Unidentified correspondents, 1878-1911   (8 letters) 9

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II. Personal 1895, 1911-1915, undated 

Scope and Content

Contains the contents of Anne Whitney's "private drawer," information about the Whitney family genealogy, and correspondence between Olive Tilford Dargan and Charley Fay discussing Whitney's estate after her death.
Title Box Folder
Contents of Anne Whitney's "private drawer", 1895, 1914, undated  10
Whitney genealogy, 1911, undated  10
Correspondence regarding Anne Whitney's estate, 1915  10
Form letter used to answer requests regarding biographical information, undated  10

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III. Business, Charity, and Activism 1887-1914 

Scope and Content

Contains financial and real estate documentation about Whitney's stock holdings and properties, as well as business letters concerning legal affairs, charitable giving, and a petition to ban the slogan 'Remember the Maine."
Title Box Folder
Financial and real estate, 1887-1913  10
Business letters, 1894-1914  10
"Remember the Maine" petition, 1898  10

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IV. Writings 

Scope and Content

Contains holographs of Whitney's poetry, three manuscripts on French art, and a few loose poems.
Title Box Folder
Manuscripts on French art, [after 1876]  10
Poetry, undated  10

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V. Adeline Manning 1883-1906 

Scope and Content

Contains items that were created by Adeline Manning, including commonplace books, journals, engagement calendars, a recipe book, and an oil painting of Anne Whitney. Also includes three photograph albums of cartes de visite depicting contemporaries and photographs of artist models, sites and art which were collected by Manning during her travels.
Title Box Volume
Commonplace book, c. 1852-1853?  Oversize 2
Commonplace book, undated  Oversize 2
Commonplace book, undated  Oversize 1
Engagement calendar, April 11, 1903-April 18, 1905  10
Engagement calendar, April, 15 1905-May 20, 1906  10
Journal, January 1, 1885-May 15, 1887  Oversize 3
Journal, May 17, 1887-February 28, 1890  Oversize 3
Journal pages, July 30-October 1, 1883, 1905, undated  10
Journal, April 1, 1890-January 8, 1903  Oversize 3
Oil sketch of Whitney by Manning 1883  Oversize 6
Photograph album [cartes de visite of contemporaries], undated  Oversize 3
Photograph album [models], undated  Oversize 4
Photograph album [paintings, sites, and models], undated  Oversize 5
Recipe book, c. 1851  Oversize 1
Recipe and poem, undated  10

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VI. Photographs 

Scope and Content

Contains photographs of Whitney's art, some of which were taken by A. Sbracia, a photographer in Rome. Others were taken by Marshall & Co., Boston photographers who were part of an artists' collective known as the Studio Building, which burned down in 1906. A number of the photographs are glued to brown paper pages that appear to have come from an album or scrapbook. Some of the individual photographs in the collection may also have been removed from these pages. Additionally, there are three modern prints in this collection, which also have their original counterparts present, either within the same folder or as part of the scrapbook pages.
Title Box Folder
Calla Lily Fountain  Oversize 7
Cherubs by A. Sbracia (Rome)  Oversize 7
Ethiopia  Oversize 7
Harriet Martineau  Oversize 7
Lady Godiva  Oversize 7
Keats  Oversize 7
Leif Ericson  Oversize 7
Images removed from scrapbook/album  Oversize 7
Modern prints with originals  Oversize 7
Misc unmounted  Oversize 7
Misc mounted  Oversize 7

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Finding Aid Last Updated: 09/03/2013

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