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The Isabella Beecher Hooker project [microform]
Bib ID 2198770
Format MicroformMicroform, BookBook
Description [Millwood, N.Y. : KTO Microform], c1979 
144 microfiches : ill. 
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Consists chiefly of correspondence between Isabella Hooker and her husband, John Hooker, a lawyer, of Hartford, Conn.; together with Isabella's diary (1901) dealing with her husband's last days and her views on spiritualism. Includes letters to their daughters, Alice (Hooker) Day and Mary (Hooker) Burton; letters written by John Hooker while on travels through Connecticut as recorder for the State Supreme Court and while on tours to Europe; and letters by Isabella from their home at Nook Farm and from the Gleason Water Cure, Elmira, N.Y., containing references to her brother, Thomas K. Beecher, Mr. and Mrs. Jervis Langdon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Dudley Warner, George H. Warner, and other members of the Warner family.

Accompanied by a printed guide entitled: The Isabella Beecher Hooker project : a microfiche edition of her papers and suffrage-related correspondence owned by the Stowe-Day Foundation / edited and with an introductory essay by Anne Throne Margolis ; assisted by Margaret Granville Mair.

Subjects Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907 -- Archives.  |  Hooker, John, 1816-1901 -- Correspondence.  |  Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.  |  Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.  |  Suffragists -- United States -- Archives.
Other authors/contributors Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907  |  Hooker, John, 1816-1901  |  Margolis, Anne Throne  |  Mair, Margaret Granville  |  Stowe-Day Foundation  |  Stowe-Day Foundation. Isabella Beecher Hooker project

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