Papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck, 1833-1937
Overview
Correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries of author and former mill girl Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and her daughter, Harriette Lucy Robison Shattuck, suffragist and women’s clubs advocate.
Dates
- Creation: 1833-1937
Creator
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Access. Originals are closed; use microfilm M-110.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Papers created by Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck are in the public domain. 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
12.72 linear feet ((30+1/2 file boxes) plus 1 oversize folder)The Harriet Robinson papers include a large body of her family correspondence with her children, her husband, and other family members. Other correspondents include: Lucy Larcom, several Lowell mill girls, and suffrage leaders Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone. Annual diaries, dating from 1852 to 1908 with some gaps, and scrapbooks number over seventy volumes and contain early writings (published and unpublished), Lowell mill girl material, and newsclippings dealing primarily with women and suffrage. Seven of the scrapbooks were kept by Harriette Robinson Shattuck, except that the first of them was begun for her by her mother.
The Shattuck papers include 33 diaries (1867-1937), nine additional scrapbooks, and an 86-page manuscript autobiography written in 1914.
BIOGRAPHY
Harriet Jane Hanson was born February 8, 1825, in Boston, Massachusetts, the only daughter of William Hanson and Harriet (Browne) Hanson. After her father's death in 1831 Harriet moved with her mother to the mill town of Lowell, Massachusetts, and at the age of ten began working in one of the mills. It was during this time that she began writing; some of this early work was published in the Lowell Offering. In 1848 she married William Stevens Robinson, an anti-slavery newspaper editor who used the pen-name "Warrington." Besides helping her husband with his anti-slavery and reform activities, Harriet Robinson became active in the advancement of women's rights. In 1881 she wrote a history of Massachusetts in the Woman Suffrage Movement and openly affiliated with Susan B. Anthony's National Woman Suffrage Association. She also continued to write about factory labor and mill girls ("Early Factory Labor in New England," 1889; Loom and Spindle, 1898) and was an enthusiastic promoter of women's clubs. She died at her home in Malden, Massachusetts, December 22, 1911.
Harriette Robinson Shattuck, the first of William and Harriet (Hanson) Robinson's four children, was born December 4, 1850. Beginning in the 1860s, she was active in the woman suffrage movement, later helping her mother organize the National Woman Suffrage Association of Massachusetts. In 1878 she married Sidney Doane Shattuck. Mrs. Shattuck also shared her mother's interest in women's clubs: in 1878 she helped found the "Old and New," a woman's club of Malden, Massachusetts, and she was active in the formation of the General Federation of Women's Clubs in 1890. After her mother's death Mrs. Shattuck moved with her husband to Poughkeepsie, New York, later returning to Malden. She died March 24, 1937.
SERIES LIST
- Series I. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Family Correspondence. #1-17.
- Series II. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Compositions, Speeches, News-clippings, Genealogical research material, miscellaneous. #18-25.
- Series III. William Stevens Robinson: Correspondence. #26-33.
- Series IV. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Correspondence of mill workers and other friends. #34-46.
- Series V. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Suffrage correspondence. #47-61.
- Series VI. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Diaries. 1v-27v.
- Series VII. Harriet Hanson Robinson: Writings and scrapbooks. 28v-66v.
- Series VIII. Harriette Robinson Shattuck: Diaries. 67v-99v.
- Series IX. Harriette Robinson Shattuck: Scrapbooks, writings, miscellaneous. 100v-116v; #62-63.
Physical Location
Collection stored off site: researchers must request access 36 hours before use.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession numbers: 59-70, 348, 77-M115
The Robinson-Shattuck papers were purchased from Goodspeed's Book Shop in June 1959, except for some of the volumes in series VIII and IX. These volumes were given to the Schlesinger Library by Edna Lamprey Stantial in July 1961. Two additional diaries (January 1856-December 1859, 1863) were given to the Library in July 1977 by Zivan Simonian.
Microfilm of Collection
Re-processed and microfilmed under NEH Grant Number RC 24669-76-987. The papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and her daughter Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck have been microfilmed; a positive film copy is available for the use of readers. The original manuscripts are closed to research.
The following list indicates the folder and volume numbers and which reels they appear on.
Please refer to this folder and reel information as you use the Inventory. When requesting microfilmed material, please use the microfilm number M-110 and the reel number.
Reel Guide
- Folders 1-17: reel 1
- Folders 18-61: reel 2
- Volumes 1-7: reel 3
- Volumes 8-12: reel 4
- Volumes 13-20: reel 5
- Volumes 21-25: reel 6
- Volumes 26-35: reel 7
- Volumes 36-46: reel 8
- Volumes 47-56: reel 9
- Volumes 57-66: reel 10
- Volumes 67-77: reel 11
- Volumes 78-86: reel 12
- Volumes 87-91: reel 13
- Volumes 92-96: reel 14
- Volumes 97-105: reel 15
- Volumes 106-115, folders 62-63: reel 16
Container List
- Box 1: Folders 1-13
- Box 2: Folders 14-35
- Box 3: Folders 36-63
- Box 4: Volumes 1-5
- Box 5: Volumes 6-10
- Box 6: Volumes 11-17
- Box 7: Volumes 18-24
- Box 8: Volumes 25-30
- Box 9: Volumes 31-32, 34
- Box 10: Volumes 35-36
- Box 11: Volumes 37-38
- Box 12: Volumes 39-41, 43
- Box 13: Volumes 45-47
- Box 14: Volumes 48-51
- Box 15: Volumes 52-54
- Box 16: Volumes 55-58
- Box 17: Volumes 59-61
- Box 18: Volumes 62-64
- Box 19: Volumes 65-70
- Box 20: Volumes 71-82
- Box 21: Volumes 83-87
- Box 22: Volumes 88-90
- Box 23: Volumes 91-92
- Box 24: Volumes 93-94
- Box 25: Volumes 95-96
- Box 26: Volumes 97-98
- Box 27: Volumes 99-102
- Box 28: Volumes 103-106
- Box 29: Volumes 107-111
- Box 30: Volumes 112-115
- Box 11: Volume 116
INDEX OF CORRESPONDENTS
This index lists writers and recipients of letters. Information about these individuals is not indexed; nor are subjects. The numbers refer to folders unless otherwise indicated.
- Abbott, Annie E. P. - 39v
- Abbott, Elizabeth Osborne Robinson - 3-5, 7-15, 17, 39v, 100v, 102v
- Abbott, Martha Harriet - 17
- Abbott, Robinson - 17
- Alden, John B. - 113v
- Alexander, James - 37v
- Allen, Nathaniel T. -33v
- Ames, Lucia Y. - 107v
- Anthony, Susan B. - 47-53, 103v
- Atherton, Gibson (?)- 52v
- Avegnes, Julia R. - 107v
- Bartel, C. A. - 34v
- Bashford, G. W. - 59
- Baxter, R. F. (Mrs.) - 101v
- Baxter, Sylvester - 110v
- Beck, H. E. - 43
- Bird, F. W. - 38v
- Blackwell, Henry B. - 58, 48v, 50v, 100v, 104v
- Blair, Henry W. - 104v
- Blood, (Mrs.)- 59
- Bowman, Selwyn L. - 52v, 54v
- Brooks, Phillips C. - 62
- Brown, M. R. (Mrs.) - 59
- Brunton, William - 107v
- Bugbee, Emma - 39v
- Butterworth, Ben - 52v
- Carter, Alice A. - 43
- Carter, Maria E. - 39v
- Chace, E. B. - 102v
- Chandler, John W. - 52v
- Channing, William H. - 50
- Chester, Frank Dyer - 22
- Clapp, S. Jane - 39v
- Clark, Anna L. - 115v
- Clark, Frederic - 115v
- Clements, E. H. - 104v, 113v, 115v
- Coebran, J. W. - 29v
- Colby, Clara Bewick - 53
- Cox, Sarah O. - 101v
- Crandell, C. - 46
- Currier, Lura - 43
- Currier, Marie - 43
- Curtis, Harriot F. - 44
- Curtis, William - 39v
- Czapo, William W. - 52v
- Davis, Georgiana - 100v, 101v
- Davis, H. L. - 52v
- Drew, Thomas - 67v
- Durant, William J. - 105v
- Eddy, Eliza F. - 60
- Eddy, Mary E. - 104v
- Eddy, Sarah S. - 39v
- Edmund, George - 54v
- Elverson, James - 101v
- Farley, H. - 43
- Farman, Ella (?)- see Pratt
- Ferry, T. W. - 104v
- Fletcher, Margaret - 38v
- Foster, Abby K. - 52v
- Foster, M. W. (Mrs.) - 101v
- Foster, Rachel G. - 102v, 104v-106v
- Fox, Jabez - 100v
- French, C. M. (Mrs.) - 101v
- Fuller, Henry H. - 32
- Gage, Matilda Joslyn - 55
- Gannett, A. M. (Mrs.) - 101v
- George, Obijah (?)- 60
- Gerauld, E. P. - 100v
- Godwin, Minna - 36v
- Gordon, E. J. (Mrs.) - 101v
- Greene, Lucy Call Robinson - 28
- Griffin, S. E. - 46
- Hallett, B. F. - 50v
- Hanson, Harriet Browne - 1, 3-5
- Hanson, John Wesley - 3, 16
- Harris, Benjamin W. - 52v
- Harris, W. T. - 109v, 110v
- Hasen, William Ingraham - 38v
- Haven, Gilbert - 25
- Haven, Hannah B. - 101v
- Hawes, Eben O. - 22
- Higginson, Thomas Wentworth - 59
- Hildreth, B. P. - 104v
- Hill, Helen M. - 101v
- Holbrook, (Mrs)- 59
- Holmes, D. E. - 100v
- Hopkins, S. C. - 102v
- Hovey, William A. - 104v
- Howells, W. D. - 38v
- Hoy, Thomas - 106v
- Hurd, Charles C. - 103v
- Keifer, Joseph Warren - 52v
- Kennedy, Richard - 101v
- Kinsley, Edward W. - 37v
- Knapp, (Mr.)- 45
- LaCoste, C. P. (Mrs.) - 110v
- Lake, Alice E. - 39v
- Lapham, E.G. - 104v
- Larcom, Lucy - 34-43
- Leonard, E. J. - 34v
- Livermore, Mary A. - 55
- Ludlow, G. S. - 39v
- McClure, Addison S. - 52v
- MacIver, Mrs. D. - 37v
- Merrill, Estelle M. H. - 39v
- Metcalf, L. S. - 31v, 39v, 108v, 110v
- Milliken, D. L. - 100v
- Molineaux, Anna - 102v
- Morse, Elijah A. - 111v
- Morse, Julia W. - 39v
- Morse, Leopold - 52v, 54v
- Morse, M. E. - 22
- Nicholes, Caroline P. - 101v
- Niles, T. (?) - 113v
- Norcross, Amasa - 52v, 54v
- Noyes, M. J. (Mrs.) - 101v
- Perry, Mary Ann - 101v
- Perry, Mary W. - 101v
- Peterson, Archy - 33
- Pratt, Ella Farman - 104v, 108v, 109v
- Putnam, William L. - 46
- Ranney, Ambrose A. - 52v
- Ratcliffe, F. H. - 101v
- Rice, William W. - 52v, 54v
- Richie, Gaines Monroe - 52v
- Roach, Caroline (Carrie)- 104v
- Robinson, Benjamin Franklin - 27
- Robinson, Edward Warrington - 3-5, 7-15
- Robinson, George D. - 52v
- Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson - 1-16, 22, 29-31, 33-52, 55-60, 31v, 32v, 34v, 36v-39v, 48v, 50v-52v, 100v, 101v
- Robinson, James S. - 52v
- Robinson, Jeremiah Albert - 27
- Robinson, Martha Cogswell - 2, 26, 100v
- Robinson, William - 26
- Robinson, William Stevens - 1-6, 26-33, 43, 44, 100v
- Roedell, Gustus A. - 46
- Round, William M. F. - 31v
- Russell, William A. - 52v
- Sanborn, Frank B. - 101v
- Sewell, Harriel Winslow - 52v
- Shattuck, Harriette Lucy Robinson - 3-5, 7-15, 17, 52, 59, 62, 39v, 52v, 100v-106v, 108v, 109v, 111v, 113v, 115v
- Snider, D. J. - 109v
- Sprague, J[ulia] A. - 101v
- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady - 57, v.51v,104v
- Stevens, Benjamin F. - 62
- Stewart, James S. - 106v
- Stone, Eben F. - 52v
- Stone, Lucy - 58, 59, 51v
- Sullenbeyer, O. P. - 106v
- Taylor, Ezra B. - 52v
- Tudor, Frances (Mrs. Fenno) - 49, 59
- Wadkin, Horace G. - 22
- Weld, Theodore D. 100v
- Wells, Kate G. - 38v, 101v-104v
- Whiting, Charles G. - 46
- Wilde, W. A. - 101v
- Wilder, A. - 105v
- Windsor, Anna B. - 59
- Winslow, C. B. - 103v
- Woodgraff, Jonathan T. - 52v
- Wright, Carroll D. - 43, 51v
- Wyman, E. A. (Mrs.) - 39v
- Young, F. W. - 104v
- Young, Thomas L. - 52v
Processing Information
Re-processed: September 1977
By: Madeleine Bagwell Perez
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Antislavery movements
- Authors
- Clubs--Massachusetts--Malden
- Family records
- Textile factories--Massachusetts--Lowell
- The Lowell offering
- Women textile workers--History--19th century
- Women--Employment--New England
- Women--Societies and clubs
- Women--Suffrage--Massachusetts
- Women--Suffrage--Nebraska
- Working class women
Creator
Subject
- Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906 (Person)
- Brooks, Phillips, 1835-1893 (Person)
- Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917 (Person)
- Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895 (Person)
- Title
- Robinson, Harriet Jane Hanson, 1825-1911. Papers of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck, 1833-1937: A Finding Aid
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women
- Language of description
- eng
- EAD ID
- sch00154
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.