Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Papers, 1861-1920. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Papers, 1861-1920.

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Papers include a very small amount of biographical material about Caroline Seymour Severance; some correspondence; two photographs of Jesse Benton Fremont; Caroline Severance's guest book; Julia Severance's scrapbook; and a copy of The mother of clubs: Caroline M. Seymour Severance (ed. Ella Giles Ruddy). The collection is small, and comes primarily from the years the family spent in Los Angeles, but the guest book and scrapbook in particular shed some light on the women's club movement, the abolitionist movement and networks within it, and the woman's rights movement. Included in the guest book and scrapbook are autographs, messages, drawings, photographs, memorabilia, and small amounts of correspondence from significant individuals such as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Bronson Alcott, Catharine Beecher, U.S. Grant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lydia Maria Child, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimke, May Alcott, and many others.