Mary A. Lincoln collection, 1903

Summary

Creator:

Lincoln, Mary A., 1882-1968

Abstract:

Mary Alice Lincoln wrote to multiple recipients in a search to obtain books and monographs related to African American suffrage while she was a student at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). This is a collection of four responses she received from Little, Brown, & Company; American Publishing Co.; the Boston Public Library; and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The letter from the American Publishing Company (Hartford, Connecticut) contains enclosures of printed, illustrated folio advertising circulars/prospectuses for Joseph T. Wilson's A History of the Black Phalanx, John M. Langston's From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, and John H. Paynter's Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam.

Extent:

7 items

Language:

English

Authors:

Collection processed and finding aid created by Cheney J. Schopieray, July 2022

Background

Scope and Content:

Mary Alice Lincoln wrote to multiple recipients in a search to obtain books and monographs related to African American suffrage while she was a student at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). This is a collection of four responses she received from Little, Brown, & Company; American Publishing Co.; the Boston Public Library; and the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. The letter from the American Publishing Company (Hartford, Connecticut) contains enclosures of printed, illustrated folio advertising circulars/prospectuses for Joseph T. Wilson's A History of the Black Phalanx, John M. Langston's From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol, and John H. Paynter's Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam.

Biographical / Historical:

Mary Alice Lincoln was born on March 23, 1882, to parents Henry and Alice Stevens Lincoln in Meredith, New Hampshire. She attended the New Hampton Literary Institution and Bates College (Lewiston, Maine). She was active in college, serving as class treasurer, in the Young Women's Christian Association, in debate, and as editor of the student newspaper. She gave the class day farewell address. Mary Lincoln graduated in 1905 and became a high school English teacher in Brockton and then elsewhere in Massachusetts. She married fellow teacher Arthur Hale on June 21, 1911. By 1920, the family lived in Franklin, Massachusetts. They had at least two children including Alice and Alzora Hale. Mary Alice Hale died on March 13, 1968.

Acquisition Information:

2022. M-7542.1 .

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged chronologically.

Rules or Conventions:

Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS)

Related

Additional Descriptive Data:

Related Materials

The Clements Library created individual catalog records for each of the printed advertising pieces enclosed in the letter dated May 5, 1903:

• A History of the Black Phalanx written and edited by Joseph T. Wilson. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, [1887].
• From the Virginia Plantation to the National Capitol by Hon. John M. Langston. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, [1894].
• Joining the Navy, or Abroad with Uncle Sam by Jno. H. Paynter. Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company, [1895].

Bibliography

1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.

Bates Student, v. 39, no. 6. Lewiston, Me. (June 1910): 223.

Durell, Charles Pendexter, ed. Bates 1905 : A class volume of portraits views and sundry reminiscences. Lewiston, Me.: Bates College, [1905].

"Groom Arthur W. Hale Bride Mary A. Lincoln," New Hampshire, U.S., Marriage and Divorce Records, 1659-1947 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2013.

Mary Alice Hale, "Find-A-Grave", database, Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com : accessed 21 July 2022) Mary Alice Hale (1882-1968) - Find A Grave Memorial# 130723294.

Subjects

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Subjects:

Advertising fliers--United States.
African American authors.
African Americans--Suffrage.
College students--Books and reading.
Publishers' advertisements--United States.
Suffrage--United States.
African American soldiers.
Bullfights.

Formats:

Fliers (printed matter)
Letters (correspondence)
Prospectuses.

Names:

United States. Congress. House.
American Academy of Political and Social Science.
American Publishing Company (Hartford, Conn.)
Little, Brown and Company.
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897.
Wadlin, Horace G. (Horace Greeley), 1851-1925.