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Caroline Wells Healey Dall papers

Correspondence, letterbooks, notebooks, scrapbooks, detailed personal journals, and other papers of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, a 19th-century reformer and essayist. The papers document Dall's long life and varied career from her early days in Hampton Falls, N.H., to her later years as a major reform figure in Boston and Washington, D.C. Among the topics covered are: Dall's early involvement in Unitarian church affairs; her attraction to Transcendentalism and thoughts on Margaret Fuller; her difficult marriage to missionary Charles H. A. Dall; her work in the antislavery and women's suffrage movements, and her prolific literary career. Among the correspondents are Louisa May Alcott, Susan B. Anthony, James Freeman Clarke, Edward Everett Hale, William H. Herndon, George Frisbie Hoar, Theodore Parker, Elizabeth P. Peabody, Wendell Phillips, and Dall's son, noted naturalist William H. Dall.

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