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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A Register of Her Papers in the Library of Congress
Prepared by Audrey Walker
Revised by Karen Linn Femia
1997
Manuscript Division
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services,
January 1999;
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Table of Contents for Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Collection Summary
Selected Search Terms
* Names:
* Subjects:
* Occupations:
Administrative Information
* Provenance:
* Processing History:
* Transfers:
* Copyright Status:
* Microfilm:
* Preferred Citation:
Biographical Note
Scope and Content Note
Description of Series
* General Correspondence, 1814- 1928, n.d.
* Speeches and Writings, 1848- 1902, n.d.
* Miscellany, 1840- 1946, n.d.
* Oversize, n.d.
Container List
* GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1814- 1928, n.d.
* SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1848- 1902, n.d.
* MISCELLANY, 1840- 1946, n.d.
* OVERSIZE, n.d.
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Collection Summary
Title: Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1814-1946 (bulk 1840-1902)
Creator: Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Size: 1,000 items; 10 containers plus 1 oversize; 4.3 linear feet; 5
microfilm reels
Repository: Manuscript Division, Library of Congress
Abstract: Reformer and feminist. Correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts
of books, scrapbooks, and printed matter documenting Elizabeth Cady
Stanton's career as an advocate for women's rights. Includes material on
her efforts on behalf of women's legal status and women's suffrage, the
abolition of slavery, rights for African Americans following the Civil War,
temperance, and other nineteenth-century social reform movements.
Selected Search Terms
Names:
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906--Correspondence
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
Cady, Daniel, 1773-1859--Correspondence
Channing, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1884--Correspondence
Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880--Correspondence
Cobbe, Frances Power, 1822-1904--Correspondence
Davis, Paulina W. (Paulina Wright), 1813-1876--Correspondence
Douglass, Frederick, 1817?-1895--Correspondence
Garrison, William Lloyd, 1805-1879--Correspondence
Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, 1823-1911--Correspondence
Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910--Correspondence
Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880--Correspondence
Pankhurst, Emmeline, 1858-1928--Correspondence
Phillips, Wendell, 1811-1884--Correspondence
Pike, Elizabeth E.--Correspondence
Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow, 1861-1948--Correspondence
Sargent, John Osborne, 1811-1891--Correspondence
Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince, 1806-1893--Correspondence
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874--Correspondence
Stanton, Henry B. (Henry Brewster), 1805-1887--Correspondence
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893--Correspondence
Swinton, John, 1829-1901--Correspondence
Tilton, Theodore, 1835-1907--Correspondence
Weed, Thurlow, 1797-1882--Correspondence
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892--Correspondence
Subjects:
Afro-Americans--Civil rights--19th century
Antislavery movements
Feminism
Social problems--United States--19th century
Temperance--United States--Societies, etc.--19th century
Women--Legal status, laws, etc.--19th century
Women--Suffrage
Women's rights
Occupations:
Reformers
Feminists
Administrative Information
Provenance:
The papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, reformer and leader in the woman's
rights movement, were acquired by the Library of Congress chiefly as a gift
from Susan B. Anthony in 1903 and from Stanton's daughter, Harriot Stanton
Blatch, in 1927-1928. The Library acquired smaller accessions of material
by gift and purchase through 1957.
Processing History:
The papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton were arranged and described in 1979.
The register was revised in 1997.
Transfers:
Photographs have been transferred to the Library's Prints and Photographs
Division where they are identified as a part of these papers.
Copyright Status:
The status of copyright in the unpublished writings of Elizabeth Cady
Stanton is governed by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17,
U.S.C.).
Microfilm:
A microfilm edition of these papers on five reels is available from the
Library's Photoduplication Service for purchase subject to the Copyright
Law of the United States (Title 17, U.S.C.). This microfilm edition may
also be requested on interlibrary loan through the Library's Loan Division.
Preferred Citation:
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: Elizabeth Cady Stanton Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of
Congress, Washington, D.C.
Biographical Note
Date Event
1815 , Nov.
12 Born, Johnstown, N.Y.
1832 Graduated, Emma Willard's Seminary, Troy, N.Y.
1840 Married Henry B. Stanton
Attended World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, England
1846 Moved from Boston, Mass., to Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1848 Organized the first Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca
Falls, N.Y., which adopted, at her instigation, the first
public resolution for woman suffrage
1851 Met Susan B. Anthony; enlisted her in woman's rights cause
1852 President, Woman's Temperance Convention, Rochester, N.Y.
1866 First female candidate for the U.S. House of
Representatives
1868 - 1870 Joint editor with Parker Pillsbury of the weekly Revolution
1869 A founder and first president of the National Woman
Suffrage Association; provided leadership (usually as
president) until its merger in 1890 with the American Woman
Suffrage Association
1881 - 1886 Published with Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage,
History of Woman Suffrage (New York: Fowler & Wells. 3
vols.)
1888 Helped organize the first International Council of Women,
Washington, D.C.
1890 Elected president, National American Woman Suffrage
Association
1895 , 1898 Published The Woman's Bible (New York: European Publishing
Co. 2 vols.)
1898 Published Eighty Years and More (1815-1897), Reminiscences
of Elizabeth Cady Stanton... (New York: European Publishing
Co. 474 pp.)
1902 , Oct.
26 Died, New York, N.Y.
Scope and Content Note
Although the papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) cover the years
1814 to 1946, most of the material is concentrated between 1840 and 1902.
The collection is composed of correspondence, speeches, articles, drafts of
books, scrapbooks, and printed matter relating to Stanton and the woman's
rights movement. This material reflects Stanton's role as a social reformer
and a leading proponent of woman's rights for more than half a century.
Stanton spoke and wrote widely about the political, economic, religious,
and social wrongs perpetrated against women and provided leadership in
organizations devoted to securing rights for women, particularly the right
to vote.
Married to an abolitionist, Henry B. Stanton, Stanton was active in the
antislavery movement in the decades preceding the Civil War and a proponent
of Negro rights during Reconstruction. Denied a university education
because of her sex, she was an early proponent of higher education for
women. A supporter of the temperance movement, though not particularly
active in it, she insisted that drunkenness should be a cause for divorce.
That drunkenness and cruelty, not divorce, were the real enemies of
marriage, that the churches and canon law retarded women's progress, that
laws must be changed to ensure property rights for married women, including
the right to their own wages, that women must take their rightful place in
business and the professions, that "self-development is a higher duty than
self-sacrifice," and that women and men should be equal before the law, in
churches, and in society were among the basic themes which brought her
widespread denunciation as well as many followers. Overall, however, she
sought woman's right to vote as basic to all other rights and worked
arduously for state laws and a constitutional amendment to that effect.
The collection elucidates the goals, tactics, and activities of many of the
men and women associated with the woman's rights movement and depicts the
external opposition as well as the internal division which the movement
encountered. The correspondence provides glimpses into Stanton's family
life illustrating how she balanced her family responsibilities with the
demands placed on her as a leader in the movement. Her speeches and
writings document in detail her stand on woman's rights and her concern for
other contemporary social issues.
Those papers donated by Harriot Stanton Blatch and originally arranged in
scrapbooks have been dismantled and interfiled with the other papers that
make up the collection. Blatch's notes on various items have been retained
and are filed with the relevant manuscripts. The scrapbooks which were
prepared by Susan B. Anthony (see Miscellany) have been kept as units
except for the holograph material they contained. This material has been
removed and interfiled in the papers with identifying notes.
Prominent correspondents represented in the collection include Susan B.
Anthony, Daniel Cady, W. H. Channing, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Frances
Power Cobbe, Paulina W. Davis, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, Emmeline
Pankhurst, Wendell Phillips, Elizabeth E. Pike, Edith Kermit Carow
Roosevelt, John Osborne Sargent, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, Gerrit
Smith, Henry B. Stanton, Lucy Stone, John Swinton, Theodore Tilton, Thurlow
Weed, and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Description of Series
Microfilm edition available. Shelf no. 17,781
Box Reel Series
BOX 1 General Correspondence, 1814 - 1928 , n.d.
REEL 1
Letters sent and received.
Arranged chronologically.
BOX
2-8 Speeches and Writings, 1848 - 1902 , n.d.
REEL
1-5
Drafts of books, drafts and holograph and printed copies of
articles and speeches, published letters, and miscellaneous
writings.
Arranged by type of material and chronologically therein.
BOX
8-10 Miscellany, 1840 - 1946 , n.d.
REEL 5
Biographical data, certificates, printed matter, speeches by
others, and scrapbooks.
Arranged alphabetically by type of material or subject name.
BOX OV
1 REEL Oversize, n.d.
2
Handwritten draft of The Woman's Bible.
Described according to the series, folder and box from which it was
removed.
Container List
Microfilm edition available. Shelf no. 17,781
Box Reel Contents
GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE, 1814 - 1928 , n.d.
BOX 1 REEL 1 1814 - 1928 , n.d.
(11 folders)
SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 1848 - 1902 , n.d.
BOX 2 REEL 1-2 Books
Reminiscences, handwritten drafts of chapters
Nos. 7-12
(3 folders)
Nos. 16-17
Nos. 19, 21-22, 26
Nos. 30-32
(2 folders)
Nos. 34-36
(3 folders)
Nos. 41-44
Nos. 47-48, 50-51
Nos. 56-57
Nos. 60-64, 66, 68
No. 70
Marriage and divorce
Miscellaneous
BOX 3 REEL 2 The Woman's Bible, handwritten draft, n.d. See
Oversize
Description available.
Genesis
Items available.
Exodus
Items available.
Numbers
Items available.
Matthew
Items available.
Articles
1869 , 8 Apr., "The Man Marriage" and "What Possible
Value Would Suffrage Be to Woman?" Revolution
1886 , 11 Mar., "Religion for Women and Children,"
The Index
[ 1890 's], "The Bycicle [sic] Era"
1890
4 July, "Wyoming, the First Free State for
Woman"
30 Aug., "What Woman Suffrage Means," Woman's
Tribune
1892 , Mar., "Shall the World's Fair Be Open on
Sunday," National Bulletin
1893 , Feb., "Shall the World's Fair Be Closed on
Sunday?" National Bulletin, with draft
1894
Jan., "An Appeal to the Women of New York,"
National Bulletin
Apr., "Women Do Not Wish To Vote," National
Bulletin
"An Appeal to Young Women"
1895 , 14 Feb., "Educated Suffrage," The Independent,
with typescript
[ 1895 ?], "Is the Woman's Bible a Success?"
1899 , "Great Men's Wives," Omaha Republican
1900 , Mar., "Are Homogeneous Divorce Laws in All the
States Desirable?" North American Review, with
earlier article, 20 Nov. 1898
1901
29 June, "Self-Government the Best Form for
Self-Development"
8 Dec., "Home Life a Century Ago,"
Philadelphia Sunday Press
1902
5 Oct., "An Honored Place for the Bible in
English Literature," New York American and
Journal
13 Oct., "How Shall We Solve the Divorce
Problem," New York American and Journal
Undated
"Home Patriotism," n.d.
"Jails and Jubilees," The Open Court, n.d.
"Shall Women Ride the Bicycle?" n.d.
"What Should Be Our Attitude Towards
Political Parties," Woman's Tribune with
draft, n.d.
"Worship of God in Man," The Open Court with
draft, n.d.
"The Woman's Bible," n.d.
Miscellaneous articles in newspapers
BOX 4 REEL 2-3 Speeches
1848 , untitled
[ 1850 s], "Education," address delivered before
village lyceum, Seneca Falls, N.Y.
[ 1856 ?], "Woman"
[ 1860 ?], "Antislavery"
1861
4-5 Feb., "Free Speech," Fourth Annual New
York State Anti-Slavery Convention, Albany,
New York
8 Feb., address on divorce bill before the
Judiciary Committee, New York State Senate
1861 , speech in Orleans County and speech on
slavery
[ 1861 - 1864 ?], "What Can Woman Do for the War?"
New York, N.Y.
[ 1861 - 1865 ?], "The Future of the Republic,"
Boston, Mass., with partial draft of another speech
1863 , address before Woman's Loyal League
[ 1863 ?], untitled
[ 1865 - 1869 ?], untitled
1866 , 10 Oct., speech to electors of Eighth
Congressional District, New York
1867
May, speech at hearing before the Judiciary
Committee of the New York Senate
Address on right of women to vote for
delegates to constitutional convention, New
York
First speech in suffrage campaign in Kansas
Untitled speech in Kansas campaign
1868 , "Labor"
1869 , 19-20 Jan., address before first convention,
National Woman Suffrage Association, Washington, D.C.
BOX 5 REEL 3-4 [ca. 1869 ], speech before club of men and women in
New York, N.Y.
1870
17 May, speech on the McFarland trial, Apollo
Hall, extract
[June], "The True Republic"
Speech before Young Men's Suffrage
Association, Plympton Hall
[ 1870 's], extract from a lyceum lecture
1872 , 12 Jan., speech before Judiciary Committee,
U.S. Senate
[ 1872 ]
"Co-education"
"Our Young Girls"
"Presidents and Parties"
[ca. 1874 ], "Self-Government"
BOX 6 REEL 4 [ 1875 ], "Our Boys"
1876 , "Prison Life"
[ca. 1876 ], "The Subjection of Woman"
1878 , 11 Jan., "Address on National Protection for
National Citizens," before the Committee on
Privileges and Elections, U.S. Senate
1878 , 19-20
July, Third Decade Meeting of Woman's Rights
Convention, Rochester
[Aug.], "Home Life," Providence, R.I.
8 Feb. 1861 , address on divorce bill before the
Judiciary Committee of the New York Senate
1885 , 12 Nov., "The Pleasures of Age," an address
delivered on her seventieth birthday
[ 1880 - 1890 ], "Taxation"
1883 June, Princess Hall, London, England
1884 , Washington, D.C.
1888
25 Mar. -1 Apr., welcome address,
International Council of Women, Washington,
D.C.
2 Apr., statement at hearing before the
Committee on Woman Suffrage, U.S. Senate
1889 , 21 Jan., speech to members of National Woman
Suffrage Association
1890
15 Feb., address before U.S. Senate Special
Committee on Woman Suffrage, Woman's Tribune
BOX 7 REEL 4 23 Feb., "Change Is the Law of Progress,"
National American Woman's Suffrage
Convention, Washington, D.C.
4 Dec., speech to National American Woman
Association Suffrage Association convention
1891 , "The Degradation of Disfranchisement,"
National American Woman Suffrage Association
convention, Washington, D.C., with clipping
1892
18 Jan., "Solitude of Self," address
delivered before Committee on the Judiciary,
U.S. Congress
Dec., First Foremothers' Celebration, New
York, N.Y.
1893
16 May, "The Antagonism of Sex," World
Congress of Representative Women, with
article of same title
19 July, "Emma Willard, the Pioneer in the
Higher Education of Women," Chicago, Ill.
Sept. "The Ultimate Religion," New York,
N.Y., also entitled, "Worship of God in Man"
22 Dec., "Christmas on the Mayflower,"
Foremothers Dinner, New York, N.Y.
"New York Constitutional Convention in 1867 "
1895 , 12 Nov., Metropolitan Opera House, New York,
N.Y.
1900 , 13 Feb., "Woman Suffrage," statement before
Committee on the Judiciary of the House of
Representatives
1902 , 24 Feb., "Are Homogeneous Divorce Laws in All
the States Desirable?" National Legislative League,
Washington, D.C., revision of 1898 article of same
title
Undated
"Fear
"Reconstruction"
"Suffrage: A National Right"
"Woman in the Bible"
Speech notes
Sermons
1882 , Sept., "Women's Position in the Christian
Church," London, England
1883 , 20 May, "Is the Bible Opposed to Woman
Suffrage?" Street, England (near Bristol)
Undated, sermon from Genesis
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 Other writings
Account of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's attempt to vote,
1880
"An Interpolation?" n.d.
"Annie Besant," n.d.
Bible and Church Degrade Woman, (pamphlet), also two
articles on "The Christian Church and Woman, n.d.
"Clerical Assumption," n.d.
Drafts of resolutions for suffrage convention of 1875
"My Creed," n.d.
Published letters of Stanton
Suggestions for the National Woman Suffrage
Association, spring 1872
Untitled, [ 1876 ]
Untitled and undated
(5 folders)
Fragments, n.d.
MISCELLANY, 1840 - 1946 , n.d.
BOX 8 REEL 4-5 Address by Caroline Severance at Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Memorial Service, Los Angeles, Calif., 15 Nov. 1902
Address by Moncure D. Conway at funeral services for Stanton,
New York, N.Y., 1902
Biographical data
Certificates
Clippings
Elizabeth Cady Stanton As Revealed in Her Letters, Diary, and
Reminiscences by Theodore Stanton and Harriot Stanton Blatch,
1922
Hearing of the National American Woman Suffrage Association,
U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, 28
Jan. 1896
Legal papers of Daniel Cady, 1840 , 1854
The Lily, May 1852
Memorials and tributes
BOX 9 Miscellaneous ephemera
National Woman's Party's celebration of the 1848 Seneca Falls
Convention, 1923
Protest Against the Unjust Interpretation of the Constitution
by the Officers of the National Woman Suffrage Association,
Philadelphia, Pa., 17 Sept. 1886
Scrapbooks
On the Woman's Rights Convention, prepared by
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1848
#1, prepared by Susan B. Anthony
(4 folders)
BOX 10 REEL 5 #2, prepared by Susan B. Anthony
#3, prepared by Susan B. Anthony
Speeches
Blatch, Harriot Stanton, "Elizabeth Cady Stanton,"
Buffalo Convention, Buffalo, N.Y., 1915
Barney, Nora Stanton, "World Peace Through a Peoples
Parliament," 1944 and "Women As Human Beings," 1946
Susan B. Anthony's appointment as agent of the Woman's New York
State Temperance Society, 23 May 1852
The Una, Jan. 1855
"Woman's Half-Century of Evolution," by Susan B. Anthony, North
American Review, Dec. 1902
OVERSIZE, n.d.
BOX OV 1 REEL 2Speeches and Writings
Books
The Woman's Bible, handwritten draft, n.d.
(Container 3)
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