{"value"=>"<p>The research files Goldsmith created and collected during the writing of <span class=\"title\">Other Powers</span> illuminate her process of managing the information she'd gathered for such a heavily research-based book. The alphabetical and subject files show the way she organized her research notes and materials. The subjects and individuals most extensively represented are Henry Ward Beecher and other Beecher family members including his sisters Harriet Beecher Stowe and Isabella Beecher Hooker; the extramarital affair between Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth \"Lib\" Tilton and the scandal surrounding their affair; Frederick Douglass; spiritualism and mesmerism; Lib Tilton; Theodore Tilton; Women's' Rights; and Woodhull, her husbands, and other family members, including her sister Tennessee Claflin.</p> <p>Though there are individual files on prominent feminists such as Susan B. Anthony, Anna Dickinson, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the majority of materials on these and other feminists are in the extensive Women's Rights Section. There are materials on the Beecher Tilton Scandal in the Beecher Section, but most of those materials are in the more extensive Tilton section. Alphabetical Subject files contain photocopies, transcripts, and occasionally originals of documents such as letters, newspapers, articles, short biographies, speeches, wills, court proceedings, pamphlets, directories, encyclopedia extracts, and photographs. They also contain Woodhull's handwritten and typed notes and draft excerpts of chapters from the manuscript pertaining to the subject covered.</p> <p>Research files also include some miscellaneous notes, and documents, and images. Images include originals and photocopies of images used in the book. Image research files also include copies of sources retained for the purpose of pulling images from them, notes on what images were collected and what were still needed, as well as correspondence between Goldsmith and her research staff and libraries and archives from which images were requested or obtained.</p> <p>Goldsmith used the materials she collected in subject files to create a chronology in order to track the activities of the individuals who figured prominently in her narrative, as their paths weaved in and out of Woodhull's. The chronology was maintained in computer files included in this collection. The chronology created the skeleton of the sequential narrative that Goldsmith eventually expanded into the complete manuscript.</p>"}