Brook Farm correspondence

The Brook Farm correspondence totals one box (19 folders), autograph letters, signed, to and from some of the founders and participants in Brook Farm. Most folders include copies of typewritten transcriptions. Of particular interest: John Allen's, James Kay's, John Orvis's, and John Sullivan Dwight's lengthy and descriptive letters relating to Brook Farm and other matters; Elizabeth Blackwell's feminist viewpoints, including those about a woman's role in medicine, as well as her own struggles to obtain a medical degree (she was the first female doctor in the United States); Marianne Dwight Orvis's and Anna Parsons' letters describing the fire that destroyed the Phalanstery; George Ripley's letter to Phineas Eastman on the unsuitability of Eastman's daughter for the Brook Farm school. The contents of the folders are as follows: John Allen (8 items) -- Elizabeth Blackwell (3 items) -- Ellen Channing (1 item) -- William Henry Channing (1 item)-- John Sullivan Dwight (5 items) -- Mary Emerson (1 item) -- Convers Francis (1 item) -- Lizzie Hoxie (1 item) -- D.H. Jacques (1 item) -- Henry James (1 item) -- James Kaye, Jr. (3 items) -- Marianne Dwight Orvis (1 item) -- John Orvis (11 items) -- Samuel Osgood (1 item) -- Anna Q.T. Parsons (1 item) -- George Ripley (1 item) -- Gertrude Sears (1 item) -- Robert Cassie Waterston (1 item) -- H. Ware (1 item) -- Brook Farm correspondence acquisition file (letters from 1837-1958)