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    <title>Blackwell family papers, 1759-1960 (bulk 1845-1890)</title>
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  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries (1872-1937), translations of poetry and correspondence with Armenian, Russian, and Spanish poets, and other papers of Alice Stone Blackwell, editor of the Woman's Journal (1909-1917), reflecting her literary endeavors and her role in the woman's suffrage movement and other social reforms.  Correspondence, articles, speeches, reminiscences, autobiographical material, and other papers of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone relating to their activities on behalf of women's rights (particularly as organizers of the American Woman Suffrage Association and its successor, the National American Woman Suffrage Association) and the abolition of slavery.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondence, diaries (1836-1908), speeches, and medical articles and other writings of Elizabeth Blackwell, chiefly relating to her efforts to open the medical profession to women in the United States.  Kitty Barry Blackwell's correspondence with Alice Stone Blackwell reflects her life with her mother who had moved to England to practice medicine in 1869.</abstract>
  <abstract>Also includes papers of Emily Blackwell, physician in New York, N.Y., and sister of Elizabeth and Henry Browne Blackwell, and Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, sister-in-law of the Blackwells and first woman ordained as a Congregationalist minister, active in antislavery, prohibition, and women's rights movements.  Other family members are also represented in the collection.</abstract>
  <abstract>Correspondents include Sarah MacCormack Algeo, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskai͡a (Catherine Breshkovsky), Lady Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron, Carrie Chapman Catt, Ricardo Flores Magón, Antoinette Funk, William Lloyd Garrison, Sarah Moore Grimké, Ida Husted Harper, Julia Ward Howe, Bedros A. Keljik, Gabriela Mistral, Thomas J. Mooney, Lydia Mott, Florence Nightingale, Maud Wood Park, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Bartolemeo Vanzetti.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Restrictions may apply to unprocessed material.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 17,630.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1979.</note>
  <note>Several books transferred to Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division.</note>
  <note>Some photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.</note>
  <note>Family members include author and suffragist Alice Stone Blackwell; her parents, Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, abolitionists and advocates of women's rights; her aunt, Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive an academic medical degree; and Dr. Blackwell's adopted daughter, Kitty Barry Blackwell.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
  <note xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998003">Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms998003</note>
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      <namePart>Algeo, Sara MacCormack</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1876-1953</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell)</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1906</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Beecher, Henry Ward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1813-1887</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blackwell family</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Breshko-Breshkovskai͡a, Ekaterina Konstantinovna</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1844-1934</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart type="termsOfAddress">Baroness</namePart>
      <namePart>Byron, Anne Isabella Milbanke Byron</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1860</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Catt, Carrie Chapman</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1859-1947</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Flores Magón, Ricardo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1873-1922</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Funk, Antoinette</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">-1942</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Garrison, William Lloyd</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1805-1879</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Grimké, Sarah Moore</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1792-1873</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Harper, Ida Husted</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1851-1931</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Howe, Julia Ward</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1819-1910</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Keljik, Bedros A., b. 1874</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">(Bedros Arakel)</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mistral, Gabriela</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1889-1957</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mooney, Thomas J</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1882-1942</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Mott, Lydia</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Nightingale, Florence</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1820-1910</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Park, Maud Wood</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1871-1955</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Phillips, Wendell</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1811-1884</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>Stanton, Elizabeth Cady</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1815-1902</namePart>
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      <namePart>Vanzetti, Bartolomeo</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1888-1927</namePart>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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      <namePart>American Woman Suffrage Association</namePart>
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      <namePart>National American Woman Suffrage Association.</namePart>
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      <title>Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870)</title>
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    <topic>Abolitionists</topic>
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    <topic>Antislavery movements</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Congregational churches</topic>
    <topic>Clergy</topic>
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    <topic>Poetry</topic>
    <topic>Translations</topic>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Women</topic>
    <topic>Suffrage</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Women clergy</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Women periodical editors</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Women physicians</topic>
    <geographic>England</geographic>
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    <topic>Women physicians</topic>
    <geographic>New York (N.Y.)</geographic>
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    <topic>Women physicians</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <topic>Women's rights</topic>
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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    <occupation>Abolitionists</occupation>
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    <occupation>Physicians</occupation>
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    <occupation>Suffragists</occupation>
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      <title>Alice Stone Blackwell papers</title>
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      <namePart>Blackwell, Alice Stone,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1857-1950</namePart>
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      <title>Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell papers</title>
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      <namePart>Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1921</namePart>
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      <title>Elizabeth Blackwell papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blackwell, Elizabeth,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1821-1910</namePart>
    </name>
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      <title>Emily Blackwell papers</title>
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      <namePart>Blackwell, Emily,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1826-1910</namePart>
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      <namePart>Blackwell, Henry Browne,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1825-1909</namePart>
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      <title>Kitty Barry Blackwell papers</title>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Blackwell, Kitty Barry,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1848-1936</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Stone, Lucy,</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1818-1893</namePart>
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