Thomas Wentworth Higginson additional scrapbooks and other papers

Description

Scrapbooks assembled by Thomas Wentworth Higginson (TWH) or his second wife, Mary Potter Thacher Higginson (MPTH). Scrapbooks include pasted-in materials about Higginson's writings, lectures, speeches, participation as a soldier in the American Civil War, involvement in Massachusetts elections and politics, abolitionist and ministerial activities, women's rights issues, birthday celebrations, John Brown, Harvard College involvement, and many other topics. One scrapbook volume is devoted completely to his friend and colleague, Helen Hunt Jackson. Some volumes document multiple titles, but others are devoted to a single work such as The afternoon landscape, articles written for the Boston daily advertiser, Larger history of the United States, Monarch of dreams, A ride through Kanzas, Such as they are, and article series Women and men published in Harper's Bazar.

Types of materials included within the scrapbook series are: correspondence, clippings, reviews, invitations, menus, galley proofs, fliers, telegrams, playbills, photomechanical portrait images of TWH, visiting cards, advertisements (especially broadsides) for TWH's books and lectures, extensive biographical articles, printed copies of his newspaper and journal articles, autograph manuscripts of some writings, extensive autograph notes, obituaries on TWH, and letters of condolence. Many of the scrapbook volumes include an incomplete autograph manuscript index inside the front or back cover.

The "Other papers series" includes: printed version of William Warland Clapp's Joseph Dennie; TWH diplomas, certificates, and military commissions; TWH commonplace books from 1838-1856, and other items.