Overview
Correspondence of Florence Burlingame Adkinson, author and secretary for the Indiana Woman’s Department of the State Board of Agriculture.
Dates
- Creation: 1867-1927
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Florence Burlingame Adkinson as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
.42 linear feet (1 file box)Love, marriage and divorce of two neurotic personalities, are thoroughly covered in the Adkinson correspondence, 1867-1888. There are also many letters from Alice Stone Blackwell, a close personal friend.
BIOGRAPHY
Florence Burlingame Adkinson, also known as "Mary" and "Lu," was secretary for the Women's Department of the State Board of Agriculture, in Indianapolis in 1884. She also wrote for The Sentinel, a temperance paper, and The Chicago Inter-Ocean between 1881 and 1884. In 1891 she was writing for The Woman's Journal and continued to do so for many years. She married William P. Adkinson; they had one daughter, June Adkinson. June Adkinson attended Radcliffe College, receiving her B.A. in 1909 and her M.A. in 1912.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 57-24
Papers acquired by purchase, 1957, from the Star Book Co.
Creator
- Title
- Adkinson, Florence Burlingame, 1847-1925?. Papers of Florence Burlingame Adkinson, 1867-1927: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00168
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
The preeminent research library on the history of women in the United States, the Schlesinger Library documents women's lives from the past and present for the future. In addition to its traditional strengths in the history of feminisms, women’s health, and women’s activism, the Schlesinger collections document the intersectional workings of race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class in American history.