Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Added entries
Biography
Descriptive Summary
Title: Miriam A. De Ford Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1893-1954
Collection number: MS 3526
Creator:
De Ford, Miriam Allen, 1888-1975
Extent: 5 boxes
Repository:
California Historical Society, North Baker Library
San Francisco, California 94105-4014
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) Identification Number:
NUCMC 82-364
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Donor
Gift of the Estate of Miriam Allen De Ford through Ernest Besig, 1975.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The North Baker Research Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from
manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Library Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The North
Baker Research Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright
holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Miriam A. De Ford Papers. MS 3526, California Historical Society, North Baker Research Library.
Added entries
Clemmons, Ella May
Collier,
William Armistead
Gould, Mrs. Howard
Kendrick, John, 1925-1933
Mooney, Tom
Shipley, Maynard
Yue, Wong Sun
Chinese in California
Science League of America
Socialist Party (U.S.)
Woman--Suffrage
Women as authors
Women in California
Biography
De Ford was a suffragist, feminist, and writer. Collection includes correspondence, between De Ford and her second husband
Maynard Shipley, 1872-1934, a writer and lecturer whom she married in 1921, and Shipley's correspondence; De Ford's 1905 diary
and diary entries from 1939 to 1941; her autobiography; manuscripts of her plays, stories, and articles, including Feminism
-- Cause or Effect?, written in 1933; birth certificates, marriage licenses, and divorce papers; academic records; portion
of De Ford's will; photos; wills of Shipley and William Armistead Collier, her first husband; membership cards; clippings;
1906 Philadelphia High School for Girls yearbook; and material on Ella May Clemmons and Mrs Howard Gould. De Ford attended
Wellesley in 1908, and was the youngest member of the Single Tax Society. Among her works were
They Were San Franciscans and a biography of Shipley.