Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth) 1842-1932 creator mixed material monographic eng 10,000 29 2 25 12.4 Correspondence, speeches, writings, plays, legal files, financial papers, newspaper clippings, itineraries, scrapbooks, obituaries, printed material, and other papers relating to Dickinson's activities on behalf of abolition, women's rights, and suffrage and to her career in the theater. Also includes research notes for Dickinson's 1951 biography, Embattled Maiden; The Life of Anna Dickinson, by Giraud Chester. Topics include the national elections of 1872 and 1888; Dickinson's 1872 campaign work for Horace Greeley; her travel throughout the U.S. while on lecture and campaign circuits; the Republican Party; her 1891 confinement at the State Hospital for the Insane, Danville, Pa., and her lawsuits for damages incurred by the confinement; the Civil War; Reconstruction; social reform in the post-Civil War South; and education. Family correspondents include her mother, Mary Dickinson, and her sister, Susan Dickinson. Other correspondents include William B. Allison, Susan B. Anthony, Henry Ward Beecher, Samuel Bowles, Noah Brooks, Benjamin F. Butler, Fanny Davenport, Frederick Douglass, Ellen Everett, William Lloyd Garrison, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Wendell Phillips, Samuel C. Pomeroy, Whitelaw Reid, Carl Schurz, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner, and John Greenleaf Whittier. Open to research. Microfilm edition available, no. 17,984. Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1980. Some photographic prints and negatives transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Lecturer, reformer, actress, and author. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005 Allison, William B. (William Boyd) 1829-1908 Correspondence Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) 1820-1906 Correspondence Beecher, Henry Ward 1813-1887 Correspondence Bowles, Samuel 1826-1878 Correspondence Brooks, Noah 1830-1903 Correspondence Butler, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Franklin) 1818-1893 Correspondence Chester, Giraud 1922- Davenport, Fanny 1850-1898 Correspondence Dickinson, Mary Correspondence Dickinson, Susan Correspondence Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 Correspondence Everett, Ellen Correspondence Garrison, William Lloyd 1805-1879 Correspondence Greeley, Horace 1811-1872 Higginson, Thomas Wentworth 1823-1911 Correspondence Hooker, Isabella Beecher 1822-1907 Correspondence Phillips, Wendell 1811-1884 Correspondence Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke) 1816-1891 Correspondence Reid, Whitelaw 1837-1912 Correspondence Schurz, Carl 1829-1906 Correspondence Tilton, Theodore 1835-1907 Correspondence Twain, Mark 1835-1910 Correspondence Warner, Charles Dudley 1829-1900 Correspondence Whittier, John Greenleaf 1807-1892 Correspondence Dickinson family Correspondence Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) State Hospital for the Insane (Danville, Pa.) Antislavery movements United States Education United States Elections United States 1872 Elections United States 1888 Mentally ill Commitment and detention United States Presidents United States Election 1872 Presidents United States Election 1888 Psychiatric hospitals Pennsylvania Danville Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) Slavery United States Theater United States Women Suffrage United States Women's rights United States United States Description and travel United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Actresses Authors Lecturers Reformers mm 79018424 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006005.3 Open to research. DLC 800605 20260227111655.0 mm 79018424