A Guide to the Lydia Maria Child Collection
A Collection in the
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature
Accession number 7500-c
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Date Completed: 1997
Encoded by: Gavin Watson
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Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open to research
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Acquisition Information
This collection was purchased January 13, 1994.
Funding Note
Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Item List
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Lydia Maria Child, Wayland, Massachusetts, to "Dear Lucy Ann" [Brooks ?], a childhood friend1878 Apr 23ALS, 4 p. on 1 l.
[Child (1802-1880) mentions proof sheets, possibly for her book Aspirations of the World, an anthology of selections from religious books around the world with an introduction by her, describes all of the activities which have prevented her from writing her friend earlier and visiting Medford, and mentions her struggle with weariness, "I try very hard to travel through the remainder of my pilgrimage with brave resignation; but the way is lonely, and my old feet are weary."]
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Lucy Ann" [Brooks ?]
- Lydia Maria Child