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• Author/Creator:Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
  
• Title:The collected correspondence of Lydia Maria Child, 1817-1880 (inclusive), [microform]
  
• Physical Description:97 microfiches.
  

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  • Location:SML, Microform (Non-Circulating)
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  • Call Number: FILM FICHE 73
    
  • Status:No information available 

   
• Notes:Microfiche. Millwood, New York, Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd. 1979. 97 microfiches.
  
• Organization:Correspondence is arranged chronologically.
  
• Biographical / Historical note:Lydia Maria Child was born in Medford, Massachusetts in 1802. She published on numerous subjects, including domestic advice, children's literature, abolition and religion, and was an active abolitionist in New York and Massachusetts. She died in 1880.
  
• Summary:The collection contains, 2,604 letters, 2,228 of which are from Lydia Maria Child. Topics include antislavery, politics, Childs' professional writing experience, her work as an editor of a children's magazine, her financial assistance to musicians and artists, feminism, and Child's personal life. Recipients include Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, Charles Dickens, James T. Fields, William Cullen Bryant and other prominent cultural figures.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Indexes/Finding aids:Published guide available in Microform Reference.
  
• Subjects:Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882.
  Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
  Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850.
  Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
  Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881.
  Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878.
  Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.
  Women.
  Slavery.
  Children's literature.
  
• Occupation:Abolitionists.