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Formal title:: Elizabeth Buffum Chace and family papers
Extent:: 4.5 linear feet (approximately 80 items)
Date range:: circa 1801-1900
Abstract:: This collection includes correspondence, Elizabeth Buffum Chace’s commonplace book and diary, family albums, scrapbooks, photographs, an album of familial hair locks, needlework (cross stitch samplers), newspaper clippings, and other material relating to the Buffums, the Chaces, the Cheneys, and the Tolmans. The papers also contain letters in response to Chace’s book "Anti-Slavery Reminiscences." Elizabeth Buffum Chace was an activist for prison reform, the rights of orphans, peace, and temperance.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.89.12

Formal title:: Robert Cloutman and Elisabeth Anthony Dexter papers
Extent:: 12.0 Linear feet
Date range:: 1797-1971 (bulk 1935-1968)
Abstract:: The Dexter Papers are a wide-ranging collection of letters, diaries, reports, manuscripts, research notes and photographs dating from the early 19th to the late 20th century. The material represents Elisabeth and Robert Dexter’s humanitarian work in Europe with the Unitarian Service Committee, their respective historical and sociological research projects, and the life and work of Elisabeth’s father Alfred Williams Anthony, a Baptist minister and educator.
Repository:: John Hay Library
Collection call no:: Ms.2005.029

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