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Creator
Mann, Mary Tyler Peabody, 1806-1887
Call number
Berg Coll MSS Mann
Physical description
526 items
Preferred Citation

[Identification of the item]. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library.

Repository
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
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This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence, as well as a typescript about the author.

Biographical/historical information

Mary Tyler Peabody Mann, the wife of Horace Mann and sister of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, was an American writer and prolific letter-writer.

Scope and arrangement

This is a synthetic collection consisting of correspondence, as well as a typescript about the author. The typescript is a 1949 emended draft of Louise Hall Tharp's "The Peabody Sister of Salem." The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1822 to [1877], to Lydia G. Sears Haven, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, her mother Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and her sister Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, and others. Also present is a copybook, dating from 1824 to 1826, in Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's hand of letters to her sister, Mary Peabody Mann. There are letters to Mary Mann from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Una Hawthorne, Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Miss Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, Nathaniel Peabody, and others, dating from 1824 to 1884.

The Mary Tyler Peabody Mann collection of papers are arranged in two series:

Administrative information

Custodial history

Previous owners include William Deming, [--?] Hawkins, and Horace Mann.

Source of acquisition

This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources.

Processing information

Processed by Staff; Machine-readable finding aid created by Lynn Lobash and Nina Schneider.

Using the collection

Location

Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 320

Conditions Governing Use

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