Authors: Stetson, Katharine Beecher, 1885-1979.
Year: 1826
Subjects: Agresti, Olivia Rossetti.; Barney, Nora Stanton Blatch.; Blatch, Harriot Stanton,; Borglum, Gutzon,; Chamberlin, Frank Tolles,; Channing, Grace Ellery,; Channing, Harold,; Channing, William F.; Gale, Zona,; Gilman, Charlotte Perkins,; Gilman, George Houghton,; Lummis, Charles Fletcher,; MacDowell, Marian,; Park, Alice,; Stetson, Charles Walter,; Stetson, Katharine Beecher,; Stowe, Charles Edward,; Stowe, Lyman Beecher,; Vedder, Elihu,; Ward, Lydia Avery Coonley,; Wood, Mary Channing Saunders,; Channing family.; Perkins family.; Byrdcliffe (Art colony); MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, N.H.); Americans Italy.; Artists United States.; Courtship; Marriage United States.; Mothers and daughters; Painters United States.; Parent and child United States; Sculptors United States; Women artists United States; Women authors United States.; Women sculptors United States.; Women sculptors California.; World War, 1914-1918 France; World War, 1914-1918 Italy.; World War, 1914-1918 Journalists.; Italy Social life and customs.; Pasadena (Calif.) Social life and customs; Providence (R.I.) Social life and customs
Abstract: Collection includes letters, artwork, financial documents, diaries, etc., of Grace Ellery Channing, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Charles Walter Stetson, Katharine Beecher Stetson, and their family members. Most material documents Katharine Beecher Stetson's life as an artist and mother, and as a child and caretaker of her parents. A number of Katharine Beecher Stetson's baby clothes, handmade by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, are included. Also included is Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Bible, her mother Mary A. Perkins's recipe book, 1827, and her grandmother Clarissa F. Perkins's commonplace book, 1826. Katharine Beecher Stetson's correspondence from Charles Walter Stetson and Grace Ellery Channing is included, as are her courtship letters from husband Frank Tolles Chamberlin.