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Scope and Content Note
The papers of Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864) span the years 1825-1960‚ with the bulk of the material concentrated in 1850-1861. The collection includes correspondence, school essays, notes, clippings, printed matter, an unfinished biography by Lester Grosvenor Wells, and other papers relating to the Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C., slavery, the Civil War, feminism, and spiritualism. Correspondents include William Beecher, Walpole Cecil, Achsa Miner, Samuel Rhoads, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Benjamin Tatham, and members of the Miner family.