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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody collection of papers

Title: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody collection of papers, 1822-[1957] bulk (1832-1838).
Author: Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Mixed material	Permit needed	Berg Coll MSS Peabody, EP (1804)	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

576 items.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Correspondence.
Diaries.

Access (note)

Restricted access;

Biography (note)

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an educator, publisher, and founder of the West Street Book Shop.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. The bulk of the materials is from [William] Deming, Horace Mann, [--?] Hawkins, and W. T. H. Howe.

Processing Action (note)

Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Peabody, EP (1804)

OCLC

NYPW03-A92

Author

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894.

Title

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody collection of papers, 1822-[1957] bulk (1832-1838).

Summary

This is a synthetic collection that includes correspondence, journals for the period 1833-1836, a diary for 1829, and an author-emended typescript of Louise Hall Tharp's "The Peabody Sisters of Salem." The journals include the "Cuba Journal", and leaves from an 1836 journal. The diary is Sophia Amelia Peabody Hawthorne's, kept in Boston, in 1829. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, dating from 1822 to [1853], written by Peabody to her sisters, Mary and Sophia [afterwards Mary Mann and Sophia Hawthorne] during the period 1833-1835, when they were in Cuba; the correspondence was designated by her as her "Cuba journal." The letters also include those to Lydia Sears [later Haven], Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, her brother George Peabody, as well as a letter from Gladys Brooks to [John Dozier] Gordan in 1957. There are letters to Peabody from Henry A. Bright, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Samuel Foster Haven, Elizabeth Manning Hawthorne, Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, Mary Peabody Mann, her mother Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, U. W. Russell, and Samuel G. Ward, dating from 1822 to 1873.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Berg Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Biography

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an educator, publisher, and founder of the West Street Book Shop. She was the sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Bright, Henry Arthur, 1830-1884.

Brooks, Gladys.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.

Gordan, John D., 1907-1968.

Haven, Samuel F. (Samuel Foster), 1806-1881.

Hawthorne, Elizabeth Manning, 1802-1883.

Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.

Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, 1809-1871.

Hawthorne, Una, 1844-1877.

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911.

Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne, 1851-1926.

Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887.

Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1778-1853.

Peabody, George, 1804-1892.

Russell, U. W.

Ward, Samuel Gray.

Tharp, Louise Hall, 1898- Peabody sisters of Salem.

Deming, William. Former owner

Hope, Anthony, 1863-1933. Former owner

Howe, W. T. H. (William Thomas Hildrup) Former owner

Mann, Horace, 1796-1859. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Peabody, EP (1804)

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