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Maud Howe Elliott papers, 1872-1948 Includes correspondence; diaries (38 codices); lectures on art; manuscripts concerning mostly literary matters; guest book of "Lilliput" in Newport; typescript of Memories of Eighty Years (1941); and a scrapbook of clippings about Mrs. Elliott (1947-1948) Availability At the library Location Call number Status ANNEX HAY Ms. 89.13 Box 1: Correspondence - AVAILABLE Afternoon Tea request- access ANNEX HAY Ms. 89.13 Box 2: Memories of Eighty AVAILABLE Years, 1941 - Roman/Italian Letter request- 1894 - 1895, Part I access ANNEX HAY Ms. 89.13 Box 3: Roman/Italian Letter AVAILABLE Part II - Miscellaneous Writings, request- Section II access ANNEX HAY Ms. 89.13 Box 4: Miscellaneous AVAILABLE Writings, Section II - Section V request- access ANNEX HAY Ms. 89.13 Box 5: Miscellaneous AVAILABLE Writings, Section VI - Scrapbook and request- Clippings about Maud Howe Elliot, access 1947-1948. 5/1/2020 Maud Howe Elliott papers, 1872-1948 - Brown University Library Search HAY Ms. 89.13 Codex 1 USE IN MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY request- access HAY Ms. 89.13 Codex 2 USE IN MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY request- access HAY Ms. 89.13 Codex 3 USE IN MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY request- access HAY Ms. 89.13 Codex 4 USE IN MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY request- access HAY Ms. 89.13 Codex 5 USE IN MANUSCRIPTS LIBRARY request- access more Details Format: Archives/Manuscripts Author: Elliott, Maud Howe, 1854-1948 Other Author: Elliott, John, 1859-1925 Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 Damrosch, Walter Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936 Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924 MacKaye, Percy, 1875-1956 12/29/2020 , Newport Historical Society : collection : Maud Howe Elliott papers [MS.087] Newport Historical Society Collections Online BACK FINDING AID ASK A CURATOR SHARE Maud Howe Elliott papers, 1908-1921 - MS.087 Historical Note Maud Howe Elliott (1854-1948) was a social and political activist, Pulitzer prize-winning author, and founder of the Newport Art Association. She was the daughter of social activists Julia Ward Howe and Samuel Gridley Howe. Her mother advocated for abolitionism and women's suffrage and was known for writing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic"; her father founded Perkins School for the Blind. Though formally educated at private institutions in Boston, Elliott spent a significant portion of her childhood at Perkins. In the summer the Howe family traveled to their summer home Oak Glen in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. Oak Glen was left to Elliott after her parents' passing, and she later used it as a hub for her own social and political ventures. Maud shared many of Read More Scope and Content This collection largely contains correspondence regarding Maud Howe Elliott's involvement in the women's suffrage movement and the Progressive Party both in Rhode Island and on a national level. There are also records of meeting minutes, billing statements, membership lists, and flyers pertaining to the same topics. The bulk of papers span over a period of about five years from 19II through 1916. In the letters there https://collections.newporthistory.org/Detail/collections/321 1/5 12/29/2020 Newport Historical Society : collection : Maud Howe Elliott papers [MS.087] is evidence of Elliott's involvement in politics, her efforts to organize fundraisers, hiring suggestions, and propositions for her to deliver speeches across the country to help build interest in these causes. Correspondence and billing statements indicate she was responsible for the logistical aspect of these endeavors while the meeting minutes, flyers, pamphlets, and membership lists provide evidence of her successful involvement. In particular, many letters request Elliott to travel to the southern parts of the country where there was critical need to establish and grow support for both suffragist and Progressive causes. Search within this collection Collection Contents OI - Women's Suffrage, 1908 - 1921 02 - Progressive Party, 1912 - 1916 Click a Collection container to the left to see its contents. https://collections.newporthistory.org/Detail/collections/321 2/5 Newport Notables Page 1 of 3 N N Julia Ward Howe Maud Howe Elliott b. New York City, NY, May 27, 1819 b. Boston, MA, November 9, 1854 d. Newport, RI, October 17, 1910 d. Newport, RI, March 19, 1948 Bibliography "Dr. Samuel G. Howe," Newport Mercury, 15 January 1876. "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe Dead," Newport Daily News, 17 October 1910. "Mrs. Howe," Newport Daily News, 17 October 1910. "Death of Mrs. Howe," Newport Mercury, 22 October 1910. "Mrs. Julia Ward Howe," Newport Mercury, 22 October 1910. "Mrs. Howe's Memorial," Newport Mercury, 5 November 1910. "Maud Howe Elliott Dies, Noted Author," Newport Daily News, 20 March 1948. Boyer, Paul S. "Howe, Julia Ward" in Notable American Women 1607-1950. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. 2:225-229. Covell, Virginia Galvin. "A Critical Examination of the Town and Country Club of Newport, Rhode Island" Thesis, MA, English, University of Rhode Island, 1964. Darney, Virginia. "Maude Howe Elliott" in American Women Writers. vol. 1. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing., 1979. 586-588. Elliott, Maud Howe. The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Julia Ward Howe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911. Elliott, Maud Howe. This Was My Newport. Cambridge, MA: The Mythology Company, http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/howe_bib.htm 7/30/2004 Newport Notables Page 2 of 3 1944. Elliott, Maud Howe. Three Generations. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1923. Gerry, Margaarita S. "Howe, Julia Ward" in Dictionary of American Biography, vol. 9. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. 291-293. Grant, Mary H. "Julia Ward Howe" in American Women Writers. vol. 2. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1980. 340-342. Hall, Florence Howe. The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1916. Hatch, Jane M. ed. The American Book of Days. 3rd ed. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1978. 439,440. Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences 1819-1899. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1899. Howe, Maud. "Julia Ward Howe," Authors at Home. New York: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1888. 181-192. Kunitz, Stanley J. and Howard Haycraft, eds. American Authors 1600-1900. New York: The H. W. Wilson Compnay, 1938. 391-392. Levenson, J.C. "Elliott, Maud Howe" in Notable American Women 1607-1950. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971. 1:574-576. Rhode Island Historical Preservation Commission. State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Preliminary Survey Report Town of Portsmouth. 1979. 51,52. Richards, Laura E. Two Noble Lives. Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1911. Richards, Laura E. and Maud Howe Elliott. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. Sanborn Map Company, Atlas of Newport, Jamestown, Middletown and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, New York, 1921, no. 30. Tharp, Louise Hall. Three Saints and a Sinner. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1956. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 1. New York: James T. White & http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/howe_bib.htm 7/30/2004 Newport Notables Page 3 of 3 Company, 1898. 402,403 (Howe, Julia Ward). The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol. 36. New York: James T. White & Company, 1950. 435,436 (Elliott, Maud Howe). The World Almanac and Book of Facts. Mahwah, NJ: World Almanac Books, 1996. 325. Who Was Who in America. vol. 2. Chicago: The A. N. Marquis Company, 1950. 173 (Elliott, Maud Howe). Back to Julia Ward Howe Back to Maud Howe Elliot N N Redwood Library and Athenxum 50 Bellevue Avenue Newport, Rhode Island 02840 USA Tel (401) 847-0292 Redwood Library Homepage Newport Notables Contents http://www.redwoodlibrary.org/notables/howe_bib.htm 7/30/2004 10/8/2016 Maud Howe Elliott's Everlasting Impact I January 3, 2014 I Newport This Week Newport week this 2014-01-03 / Around Town Maud Howe Elliott's Everlasting Impact By Florence Archambault Affluent Gilded Age homes in Newport and across the country were chock full of imported, European art - the only type worthy of any recognition, according to the dictum of the day - and it wasn't until an effort led by Maud Howe Elliott developed a nationwide appreciation for the work of American artists, that their pieces were displayed with equal enthusiasm. A new book, "Carrying the Torch: Maud Howe Elliott and the American Renaissance," written by Newport Art Museum Curator Nancy Whipple Grinnell, tells Howe's story, detailing her transformation from a flighty young woman to one of the most respected women in the art and literary worlds in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Newport Art Museum Unlike most ladies of a certain station during that era, Howe was no Curator Nancy Whipple dilettante, but a true Renaissance woman with a strong intellect and Grinnell, who studied the life dogged commitment to her many causes. of Maud Howe Elliott for 13 years for her newly Locally known for being one of the founders of the Art Association (now released book, is seen here the Newport Art Museum) and her book on Newport history, "This Was in front of a portrait of Elliott My Newport," she has been overlooked nationally for her contribution to in the Griswold House. the cause of helping to make the acceptance of American artists a (Photo courtesy of the Newport Art Museum) http://www.newportthisweek.com/news/2014-01-03/Around_Town/Maud_Howe_Elliotts_Everlasting_Impact.html 1/3 10/8/2016 Maud Howe Elliott's Everlasting Impact January 3, 2014 I Newport This Week reality during the first half of the 20th century. This book aims to change that. The daughter of Julia Ward Howe and Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe was a well-known Boston belle and partygoer, and her parents had great concerns about her future. The early part of the book deals with her parents' influence on her character and the subsequent awakening of her literary and artistic interests. After Dr. Howe died, her mother took her on an extensive European tour, and while they toured museums and galleries across the continent, Maud's sensibilities were aroused. Carrying the Torch MAUD HOWE ELLIOT? AND That trip sparked a love and insatiable thirst for art that would last THE AMERICAN REHAIRIANCE Harry throughout her lifetime. Elliott first thought that she would pursue Copies of Grinnell's book an artistic career herself and then can be obtained at the realized that her talents were more Newport Art Museum. attuned to the literary world. She authored more than 20 books and won a Pulitzer Prize for her biography of her mother, co-written with her sister. She also wrote for several newspapers and magazines of her day, and her writings offer a snapshot of life in Victorian times through the 1940s. She used her skills as a writer and speaker to promote American art and Maud Howe Elliott (1854, artists. Elliott associated Boston - 1948, Newport) was with some of the foremost an American writer, most notable for her Pulitzer prize- literary characters of the winning collaboration with her day, including Henry sister, Laura E. Richards, on James, but the book is not their mother's biography "The Maud Howe Elliott is seen here on the as much about those Life of Julia Ward Howe" Griswold House lawn in a 1928 photo with friendships as it is the (1916). Among her works are council members of the Art Association of artists she befriended and "A Newport Aquarelle" (1883) Newport, now the Newport Art Museum. and "This Was My Newport" helped to establish. Maud Howe Elliott is the woman at right (1944). dressed in black. (Photo courtesy of the Newport Art Museum) http://www.newportthisweek.com/news/2014-01-03/Around_Town/Maud_Howe_Elliotts_Everlasting_Impact.html, 2/3 10/8/2016 Maud Howe Elliott's Everlasting Impact I January 3, 2014 I Newport This Week The book's title is derived from a eulogy written by Maxim Karolik upon her death in 1948 in which he said, "If we are interested in Newport as a progressive New England town, we must keep Mrs. Elliott's torch burning for our cultural life here." Indeed we must, not just for Newport but for the whole art world. I enjoyed the book very much. It was a good read; the writing is spirited, easy to follow, and well- documented. It is perfect for a cold winter's night curled up in front of a fire. I have been researching Maud Howe Elliott for 40 years and have long thought I would one day write her biography. I am a perfect example of someone who gets caught up in the research and never gets to the writing. Since I do not come from an artistic background, this is not the book I would have penned. Grinnell focuses on Elliott's crusade to have American artists recognized as contributors to the art world. I would like to have seen more of Elliott's interaction with her literary associates and the development of her life over the years, and her activities with the Progressive Party and the Woman Suffrage League alone would make quite a story. Maybe this dynamic woman deserves two biographies? Return to top http://www.newportthisweek.com/news/2014-01-03/Around_Town/Maud_Howe_Elliotts_Everlasting_Impact.html 3/3 Bill 1/02 Maud House Elliott. [1850-1909 ny ny Cousin : Machwillan, F. Marion 1934. Crowford sculptor,uts FMC's Father was Thomas Crow ford, died 1857. " Mother, Loulga ward, sister of Maud Howe's mother, Julia Ward Howe. Loulsa, Juka, and Annie (later lers. adolph Maillard) were daughter of Samuel Wach, NY Basher head of Premie, ward A King. They were known collectively as "The Three graces of Bond Atreet Thomas Cranted marvied houisa Ward in 1844, sending in Italy when the livid out their lives + named family, visity U.S. offen. He died at 43 year of cancer of the brain donesa reversed Luther Terry in 1861; Tery had bee a head of her 1st humbard. FMC setnt to St. Paul's founded s Dr. george B. Shattuck who had be a pupil at short. 1 was Round Hill School when foxisa's broth, San ward had been anoy the scholars Road Hill's "ideas of educaha + having live on at St. Pauls." (p. 21). John Jay Chipnea would be a pupil that St. Pails to YOR The Eleventh Hour in the Life of Boston Little Brown & 6., JULIA WARD HOWE JULIA WARD HOWE 1911. The wise friend, the good physician philosophy. Sometimes she differs can point out the way, you yourself with his conclusions, sometimes am- Maul must tread it! plifies them, oftenest endorses them. She always read her letters and the "One chosen lover, one chosen phi- Home newspapers (history in the making) losopher!" was her motto. While she immediately after breakfast. Then owed much to Spinoza and records in came the morning walk, a bout of calis- her journal that Kant does not do thenics, or a game of ball; after this she c. 1901 him justice, her philosopher par excel- settled to the real serious business of lence was Immanuel Kant. On her the day; ten o'clock saw her at her seventieth birthday the Saturday desk. She began the morning with Morning Club of Boston gave her a study, took up the hardest reading she beautiful jewel with seven moonstones had on hand. In her youth she read and one topaz. At a dinner soon after Goethe; in her middle life, when she she wore this jewel to pin a lace scarf. was deep in the study of German phi- The conversation at table turned on losophy, Kant, Fichte or Hegel. For Kantian philosophy and she was asked years Kant was the most intimate some question concerning it. companion of her thought. In the Do you think I wear the Categori- early sixties, when she was in the for- cal Imperative on my left shoulder?" ties, her diary was filled with Kant's she cried. 54 55 JULIA WARD HOWE JULIA WARD HOWE "Is this the Categorical Impera- Greeks, who formed part of the expe- tive?" asked Mrs. Whitman, pointing dition of Cyrus. She came dancing to the jewel that held the lace. After into the dining room, where the children that the club's jewel went by the name were waiting for their soup, waving her of one of the toughest nuts in Kant's beautiful hands and crying: philosophy. "Thalatta! Thalatta!" the cry of When she was fifty years old she the wearied Greeks on first catching learned Greek; from the time she sight of the sea, after wandering for could read it fluently, the Greek phi- years in the interior of the Persian losophers, historians, and dramatists empire. shared with the Germans those pre- No event in history is quite SO real cious hours of morning study. In the to me as Hannibal's crossing the Alps. end the Hellenes routed the Teutons, Day by day she took us with that and remained her most cherished in- valiant Carthaginian general on his timates. At luncheon she would tell long journey across Hispania, over the us what she had been studying, an Pyrenees, through Gaul, along the excellent way to teach children his- Rhone, and over the Graian Alps. tory. I shall never forget the day when The day Hannibal finally got his ele- she had read in Xenophon's Anabasis phants over the Little Saint Bernard the account of the retreat of the Pass, and down into Italy, was one of 56 57 JULIA WARD HOWE JULIA WARD HOWE positive rejoicing for us little ones. solemnity that impressed the young Her imagination was SO keen that visitor: when she repeated to us what she had "Study Greek, my dear, it's better been studying, it always seemed as if than a diamond necklace!" she had seen these things with her own After the morning plunge into Greek eyes, not merely read about them. or German philosophy " 'to tone up The effort of studying Greek whetted her mind," she took up whatever her mind to its keenest edge. Aristotle literary task she was at work upon, and Plato, with her Greek Testament, "put the iron on the anvil," as her she read to the last. She talked with phrase was, "and hammered" at it us less about the philosophers than till luncheon. She was a most careful the dramatists and historians. I re- and conscientious writer, writing, re- member how much we heard about the writing, and "polishing" her work Birds of Aristophanes, one of her with inexhaustible patience. Occa- favorite classics. Reading Greek was, sionally she got a poem all whole, in I think, the greatest pleasure of her one piece, like The Battle Hymn. later life. One afternoon last summer, This was rare though; as a rule she when a pretty girl of a studious turn toiled and moiled over her manuscripts. came to see her, I chanced to hear her In the afternoon she was at her desk parting words, said with a fervor and again, unless there was some outside 58 59 JULIA WARD HOWE JULIA WARD HOWE engagement - answering letters, read- pour out, you must first pour in. If ing books in a lighter vein, Italian your lamp is to serve as a beacon light, poetry, a Spanish play, a book of it must be well trimmed and filled with travels or, best of all, a good French oil every day. novel. She never in my memory took up any Each day opened with the stern work after dark. Unless she was drill of the Greek or German phi- called abroad by some festivity or losophy, by which her mind was exer- meeting, the evening was our play cised and at the same time stored with time. She invariably dressed for din- the thoughts of the wise, the labors of ner, which was followed by talk, whist, the good, the prayers of the devout. music, and reading aloud. She rarely That was the first process, the taking used the precious daylight for reading in, receiving the wisdom of the ages. English novels, SO at night she was Then came the second or creative ready to listen to some "rattling good process, when she gave out even as she story " recommended by one of the had received. This regular mental grandchildren. She delighted in exercise was like a series of gymnastics, Stevenson, Crawford, Cable, Barrie, by which the receptive and creative Stanley Weyman, Conan Doyle, Mere- functions of the brain were kept in dith, Tolstoi and Sienkiewicz. How she perfect working order. If you are to loved the friends of bookland, the 60 61 L. 107 Handy Volume Editions of Copyrighted Fiction the Correct By LAURA E. . Thing RICHARDS In Good Society MRS. TREE'S WILL $ .75 By MRS. TREE .75 Florence Howe Hall GEOFFREY STRONG .75 Author of " Social Customs" FOR TOMMY. .75 LOVE AND ROCKS .75 CAPTAIN JANUARY .75 Tall 16mos, Individual Cover Designs. Illustrated. * DANA ESTES & CO., PUBLISHERS Boston ESTES PRESS, BOSTON, MASS. Dana Estes & Company Publishers 1902 117.143 395 H141C CONTENTS Copyright, 1902 PAGE By DANA ESTES & COMPANY AT THE WRITING-DESK 12 IN INVITATIONS All rights reserved 24 WHEN MAKING CALLS 34 IN CONVERSATION 58 IN SPEECH 64 IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE 74 AT A DINNER 102 THE CORRECT THING AT TABLE 130 AT A DANCE Published, July, 1902 152 AT AFTERNOON TEA OR RECEPTION 168 AT LUNCHEON 180 IN MARRIAGE-ENGAGEMENTS 192 FOR A WEDDING 198 IN MATTERS OF DRESS 222 Colonial Press Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. IN THE STREET 238 Boston, Mass., U.S.A. WHEN TRAVELLING 252 451 Contents PAGE WHEN TRAVELLING IN STREET-CARS - 268 IN THE BUSINESS WORLD 272 IN SHOPPING 282 IN MOURNING 288 302 B REVITY is the soul of wit; but a soul cannot Ar A CLUB do without a body in our mortal world. If AT COLLEGE 312 therefore, in this brief treatise matters are so con- Ar A COEDUCATIONAL COLLEGE 324 densed that he who runs (or rides) may read, it must Ar SCHOOL 326 evidently be with the understanding that the reader AT A BOARDING-SCHOO 332 shall give the body of his own intelligence to the soul AT A WOMAN'S CLUB 336 of these short sentences. Condensation is often im- portant for convenience in carrying with us material for future expansion. In the little work here offered, it has been attempted on this ground. The result sought will not be attained unless those who may take the book in hand shall themselves supply the expanding force of sympathy and intelligent appre- hension, reading between the lines, and even across the page, since neither the positive nor the negative statements are complete in themselves, each needing the complement of its opposite.