Blackwell and Atwood Families Archive
mssBlackwellarchive
Finding aid prepared by Gina C Giang.
The Huntington Library
2016
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Finding aid last updated on December 13, 2021, by Maggie Hughes.
Contributing Institution:
The Huntington Library
Title: Blackwell and Atwood families archive
Creator:
Blackwell and Atwood families
Identifier/Call Number: mssBlackwellarchive
Physical Description:
6.2 Linear Feet
(9 boxes and 2 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1865-1993
Abstract: The Blackwell and Atwood families
archive consists of correspondence, notebooks, photographs, and printed ephemera saved by
the Atwood family.
Language of Material: The records are in
English.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item]. Blackwell and Atwood families archive, The Huntington Library,
San Marino, California.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Mary Heiskell Price, July 2012.
Custodial History
Originally owned by Elizabeth Blackwell and Kitty Barry Blackwell, passed from Kitty to the
Atwood family in the early 20th century.
Purchased by Claire Heiskell from Robert Atwood at an undetermined date.
Biographical / Historical
Lucy Stone was a prominent American orator, abolitionist, and suffragist, and a vocal
advocate and organizer promoting rights for women.
Henry Browne Blackwell was an American advocate for social and economic reform. He was one
of the founders of the Republican and the American Woman Suffrage Association.
Stone married Blackwell in West Brookfield, Massachusetts on May 1, 1855. They had two
daughters: Alice Blackwell Stone and Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood (adopted). Alice Stone
Blackwell was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Mary
Elizabeth Hagar Atwood married Ernest Winslow Atwood and the couple had four children: Alice
Gertrude King Atwood, Henrietta Louise Atwood, Helen Elizabeth Atwood, and Robert W.
Atwood.
Elizabeth Blackwell was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a
medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register.
Henry Browne Blackwell was her younger brother.
Scope and Contents
This collection primarily consists of correspondence to and from Alice Stone Blackwell,
Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood, and Anna Louise Hagar. There are approximately 128 letters from
Alice Stone Blackwell to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood. There are also dozens of poems (sent
for children or to celebrate their arrival) and manuscripts by Alice Stone Blackwell. Also
included are approximately 182 letters from Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood's sister, Anna
Louise Hagar, where she writes primarily from the West Coast. There are two letters from
Lucy Stone to Anna Louise Hagar. In one letter, Stone hopes the Hagar sisters "...had
pleasure out of the books. My daughter [Alice Stone Blackwell] when she was your age used to
have great fun with the Huggermuggers. She knew it was all 'make believe' but she liked it
all the same" (May 16, 1890). There are 6 letters from Henry Browne Blackwell to Mary
Elizabeth Hagar Atwood. In one letter dated October 5, 1898, Blackwell writes Atwood a short
poem, which reads: "Beautiful Beth! We love her to death; She can swim; she can dive; And
she knows how to count five!" In another letter he ends with an exhortation "Don't run away,
and avoid Saloons" (July 10, 1905). An item of interest is Elizabeth Blackwell's medical
notebook, Box 7 (8). Topics such as air, diseases, food, and temperament are discussed. The
notebook appears to be incomplete. There are approximately 85 photographs, many are family
snapshots (individual and gatherings), but more are studio portraits (often cabinet cards).
Ephemeral items include buttons, greeting cards, newspaper clippings, periodicals and
programs. The bulk of the periodicals consist of the magazine: The Youth's Companion from
1885 through 1924. The two oversize folders consist of additional newspaper clippings.
Lastly, there are two oversize folders consisting of additional newspaper clippings.
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by genre.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Women social reformers
Women -- Suffrage
Women's rights
Boston (Mass.)
Clippings (information artifacts)
Letters (correspondence)
Periodicals
Printed ephemera
Photographs
Atwood (Family : Mass.), former
owner
Atwood, Mary Elizabeth
Hagar
Blackwell (Family : Boston,
Mass.)
Blackwell, Alice Stone,
1857-1950
Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910,
former owner
Blackwell, Henry Browne,
1825-1909
Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936,
former owner
Hagar, Mary Louise
Heiskell, Claire, former
owner
Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Box 1
Annual report-Correspondence
Box 1, Folder 1
Annual report--National Health Society
1889, May
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 2
Autograph album--Atwood, Henrietta
1924-1926
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 3
Book--Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter, 1771-1832
1891
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 4
Book--The Monastery by Scott, Walter, 1771-183
1868
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 5
Book--Bootles' Children by Winter, John Strange, 1856-1911
1888
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 6
Bookmark--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 and Blackwell, Henry Browne,
1825-1909
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 7
Buttons--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
[undated]
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 1, Folder 8
Clippings (information artifacts)
1893-1950
Scope and Contents
16 items
Box 1, Folder 9
Commonplace book--[Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910]
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence--Adkinson, Florence M. to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1906
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence--Adkinson, June to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1940, Nov. 26
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 12
Correspondence--Atwood, Ernest, 1875-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1905-1906
Scope and Contents
4 items
Box 1, Folder 13
Correspondence--Atwood, Helen, 1909-1992 to Florence -----
[after 1950]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 14
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Alice Atwood,
1906-1979
1942-1943
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 1, Folder 15
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Ethel [Blackwell
Robinson]
1938, Feb. 11
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 1, Folder 16
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Henrietta Atwood,
1906-1976
1925-1945
Scope and Contents
10 items
Box 1, Folder 17
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1898 and 1906
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 1, Folder 18
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
[before 1900]
Scope and Contents
14 items
Box 2, Folder 1
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
[after 1900]
Scope and Contents
43 items
Box 2, Folder 2
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1940-1945
Scope and Contents
41 items
Box 2, Folder 3
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1946-1949
Scope and Contents
28 items
Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Reynold
-----
1911, Apr. 27
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950 to Robert Atwood,
1912-1997
1943, Jan. 9
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 6
Correspondence--Blackwell, Florence to Anna Louise Hagar
1899, Sep. 27
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 7
Correspondence--Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909 to Mary Elizabeth Hagar
Atwood
1898-1906
Scope and Contents
6 items
Box 2, Folder 8
Correspondence--[Blackwell, Sarah Ellen, 1828- ] to Henry Browne Blackwell,
1825-1909
1896, Apr. 4
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 9
Correspondence--Fish, E.D. to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1902, June 30
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 10
Correspondence--Ford, Dan to Anna Louise Hagar
1892
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 11
Correspondence--Garrison, William Lloyd, Jr., 1838-1909 to Alice Stone
Blackwell, 1857-1850
1936, Feb. 1
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 12
Correspondence--Gerhard, Adele to Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821-1910
1899, Dec. 4
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 13
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Anna Stone Blackwell,
1857-1950
1926, Aug. 31
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 14
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Ernest Atwood, 1857-1950
1937-1939
Scope and Contents
4 items
Box 2, Folder 15
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Helen Atwood, 1909-1992
1946
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 2, Folder 16
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Henrietta Atwood, 1906-1976
1939-1941
Scope and Contents
5 items
Box 2, Folder 17
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Kitty Barry Blackwell,
1848-1936
1925, June 17
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 18
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
[before 1900]
Scope and Contents
29 items
Box 2, Folder 19
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
[after 1900]
Scope and Contents
Approximately 52 items
Box 2, Folder 20
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
[after 1900]
Scope and Contents
11 items
Box 2, Folder 21
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1900s
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 2, Folder 22
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1920s
Scope and Contents
50 items
Box 2, Folder 23
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1930s
Scope and Contents
19 items
Box 2, Folder 24
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1940s
Scope and Contents
15 items
Box 2, Folder 25
Correspondence--Hagar, Anna Louise to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1950s
Scope and Contents
5 items
Box 3
Correspondence-Exhibition catalog
Box 3, Folder 1
Correspondence--Heiskell, Claire to/from Robert Atwood, 1912-1997
1979-1984
Scope and Contents
Photocopies. Removed from binder
Box 3, Folder 2
Correspondence--Heiskell, Claire to/from Robert Atwood, 1912-1997
1985-1993
Scope and Contents
Photocopies. Removed from binder
Box 3, Folder 3
Correspondence--Heiskell, Claire to/from Robert Atwood, 1912-1997
[before 1993]
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous notes and photocopies undated removed from binder
Box 3, Folder 4
Correspondence--May, Jeannie S. to Mary A.M. Newell
1899, Sep. 19
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 5
Correspondence--May, John B. to Anna Louise Hagar
1896, Nov. 27
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 6
Correspondence--Newell, Mary A.M. to Anna Louise Hagar
[undated]
Scope and Contents
Approximately 29 items
Box 3, Folder 7
Correspondence--Newell, Mary A.M. to Ralph Wardlaw Gloag
1911, June 22
Scope and Contents
Included: Mary A.M. Newell's will and other documents
Box 3, Folder 8
Correspondence--Oberlin College. Office of the Secretary to Henrietta Atwood,
1906-1976
1925, Oct. 12
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 9
Correspondence--Pride, Edward W. to Anna Louise Hagar
1893, Mar. 2
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 10
Correspondence--Rogers, Reynold to Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood
1905
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 3, Folder 11
Correspondence--[Smith, L. Tomlin] to ----- Blackwell
1985, May 21
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 12
Correspondence--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 et al. to "Dear Friend"
1889, Feb. 17
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 13
Correspondence--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 to Anna Louise Hagar
1890-1893
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 3, Folder 14
Correspondence--University of Massachusetts at Boston to Helen Atwood,
1909-1992
1980, Jan. 28
Box 3, Folder 15
Diary--Hagar, Anna Louise
[1906]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 16
Drawing--Driftwood and Barn by Sally Kitchen
1924
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 17
Empty envelopes
1936-1949
Scope and Contents
21 items
Box 3, Folder 18
Excerpt--Tribute to Mr. Blackwell by Mrs. Emma L. Blackwell
1910, Mar. 5
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 3, Folder 19
Exhibition catalog--Royal United Service Institution
1905
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 4
Greeting cards-Journal (periodical)
Box 4, Folder 1
Greeting cards
1940s
Scope and Contents
33 items
Box 4, Folder 2
Gretting cards
[undated]
Scope and Contents
Approximately 136 items
Box 4, Folder 3
Greeting cards
[undated]
Scope and Contents
Approximately 119 items
Box 4, Folder 4
Invitation--Atwood, Ernest, 1875-1950 and Mary Elizabeth Hagar
1905, Oct.
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 4, Folder 5
Journal (periodical)--The Edinburgh Review
1881, Jan.
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 4, Folder 6
Journal (periodical)--The Journal of Physiology
1889, May 11
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 5, Folder 1
Letter opener
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 5, Folder 2
List (document genres)--List of Miss Barry's Books
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 5, Folder 3
Magazine--Alpha Phi Quarterly
1927, Jan.
Box 5, Folder 4
Magazine--New England Magazine
1899 and 1900
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 5, Folder 5
Magazines--Temple Bar
1885, July and 1889,
Oct.
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 5, Folder 6
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1892, Jan.-Feb.
Scope and Contents
8 items
Box 5, Folder 7
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1892, Mar.-Apr.
Scope and Contents
9 items
Box 6, Folder 1
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1892, May-June
Scope and Contents
8 items
Box 6, Folder 2
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1892, July-Sep.
Scope and Contents
13 items
Box 6, Folder 3
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1892, Oct.-Nov.
Scope and Contents
8 items
Box 6, Folder 4
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1898, 1900, 1901, and
1903
Scope and Contents
6 items
Box 6, Folder 5
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1906, 1908-1909,
July
Scope and Contents
7 items
Box 6, Folder 6
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1909, July-1910
Scope and Contents
12 items
Box 7, Folder 1
Magazines--The Youth's Companion
1924, Jan.
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 7, Folder 2
Manuscript (document)--The Providence of Bookworms by Blackwell, Anna
[Belden]
[undate]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 3
Manuscript (document)--Six Years As a Child in Germany by Hagar, Anna
Louise
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 4
Manuscript (document)--An Old House and its... by [Newell, Mary
A.M.]
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 5
Manuscript [document]--A Lecture on Peoples Banks
1901
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 6
Menu--Complimentary Dinner to Henry B. Blackwell, Esq.
1895, May 4
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 7
Notebook--Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
1890
Scope and Contents
Related to Town and Port of Hastings
Box 7, Folder 8
Notebook--Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
[undated]
Scope and Contents
Related to health and medicine
Box 7, Folder 9
Order form--Lucy Stone: Pioneer of Woman's Rights by Alice Stone Blackwell,
1857-1950
[undated]
Scope and Contents
7 items
Box 7, Folder 10
Photograph--Adkinson, Florence Burlingame and June
[before 1909]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 11
Photographs--Atwood family
[undated]
Scope and Contents
10 items
Box 7, Folder 12
Photographs--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
[before 1950]
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 7, Folder 13
Photograph--Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
[before 1921]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 14
Photograph--Blackwell, Elizabeth, 1821-1910
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 15
Photograph--Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909
[before 1909
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 16
Photographs--Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936
1879-1922
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 7, Folder 17
Photographs--Blackwell and Hagar family
[undated]
Scope and Contents
4 items
Box 7, Folder 18
Photograph--Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 1860-1935
1898
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 7, Folder 19
Photographs--Hagar, Anna Louise
1898-1952
Scope and Contents
5 items
Box 7, Folder 20
Photograph--Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
1902
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 8, Folder 1
Photographs--Lucy Stone Home
[before 1950]
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 8, Folder 2
Photographs--Miscellaneous houses
[undated]
Scope and Contents
4 items
Box 8, Folder 3
Photographs--Miscellaneous landmarks
[undated]
Scope and Contents
19 items
Box 8, Folder 4
Photographs--Newell, Mary A.M.
1890
Scope and Contents
8 items
Box 8, Folder 5
Photographs--Newell, Mary A.M.'s home and Hagar, Anna Louise's
room
[undated]
Scope and Contents
11 items
Box 8, Folder 6
Photograph--Scott family
1916, Mar.
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 8, Folder 7
Photographs--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
[before 1893]
Scope and Contents
4 items
Box 8, Folder 8
Photographs--Tyack, Ada M.
1936
Scope and Contents
3 items
Box 8, Folder 9
Poems--To A Jewel of a Dog by Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
1928 and 1930
Scope and Contents
Other poem: To Sir Jock Barry Blackwell, C.B.B. 2 items
Box 8, Folder 10
Poem--Poem beginning "My mistress dear..." by Blackwell, Alice Stone,
1857-1950
1926, Feb. 14
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 8, Folder 11
Poems--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
[after 1906]
Scope and Contents
Written for Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood's twin girls. Approximately 18 items
Box 8, Folder 12
Poems--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
[1909]
Scope and Contents
Written for Helen Atwood, 1909-1992
Box 8, Folder 13
Poems--Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950
1930-1948
Scope and Contents
Written for Mary Elizabeth Hagar Atwood. 9 items
Box 8, Folder 14
Poem--The Circle by Hagar, Anna Louise
[undated]
Box 8, Folder 15
Poem--Poem beginning "Louisa Hagar at this time..."
[undated]
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 9
Printed ephemera-Miscellaneous
Box 9, Folder 1
Printed ephemera
[after 1910]
Scope and Contents
Emily Blackwell (photograph) and Elizabeth Blackwell, 1821-1910 grave. 3 items
Box 9, Folder 2
Printed ephemera
1949-1976
Scope and Contents
Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950 death and Lucy Stone Home. 20 items
Box 9, Folder 3
Printed ephemera
[undated]
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous. 6 items
Box 9, Folder 4
Postcards
[undated]
Scope and Contents
2 items
Box 9, Folder 5
Proceedings--Society for Psychical Research
1889, July
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 9, Folder 6
Programs--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
1894-1950
Scope and Contents
7 items
Box 9, Folder 7
Protest--Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893 and Blackwell, Henry Browne,
1825-1909
1897
Scope and Contents
1 item
Box 9, Folder 8
Scrapbook--Blackwell, Kitty Barry, 1848-1936
1879-1913
Scope and Contents
Primarily newspaper clippings. 1 item
Box 9, Folder 9
Scrapbook
1915-1957
Scope and Contents
Primarily newspaper clippings removed from binder. 1 item
Box 9, Folder 10
Scrapbook--Hagar, Anna Louise
1927-1928
Scope and Contents
Related to California. 1 item
Box 9, Folder 11
Miscellaneous fragments of correspondence, notes, and poems
1911
Scope and Contents
7 items
Folder Oversize 1
Newspaper clippings
1930-1950
Scope and Contents
9 items
Folder Oversize 2
Newspaper clippings
1865-1913
Scope and Contents
Included: The Liberator, Feb. 3, 1865, The Woman's Journal, Jan. 18, 1908, and Woman's
Journal and Suffrange News, Oct. 11, 1913. May or not be complete issues
