Ann Eliza Young letter, to Jennie Anderson Froiseth, 1881 May 20 : manuscript.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Young, Ann Eliza, 1844-1917, author.

Contributor:

Froiseth, Jennie Anderson, 1849-1930, addressee.

Sang, Elsie O., former owner.

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, donor.

Forbes Magazine Collection, former owner.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young, Brigham, 1801-1877.

Young, Brigham.

Latter Day Saint women.

Polygamy--Religious aspects--Latter Day Saint churches.

Polygamy.

Genre:

correspondence.

Manuscripts, American -- 19th century.

Manuscripts, English -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Elsie O. Sang (1906-1997, Chicago).

Sold at auction at Sotheby's (London), 8 May 1987, lot 108, to the Forbes Collection (New York).

Sold at auction as part of the Forbes Collection at Swann Galleries (New York), 25 November 2014, to Caroline F. Schimmel.

Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Physical Description:

1 item (7 leaves) : paper ; 22 x 14 cm

Production:

Kentucky, 1881 May 20.

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 24 Folder 38

Biography/History:

Lecturer against polygamy and for women's rights after being one of the wives of Brigham Young (married in 1869, divorced in 1875). Her memoir, originally titled Wife No. 19, was first published in 1875.

Summary:

Autograph letter, signed A. E. Young, dated "on the boat, en route for Brazil, Indiana, May 20th, 1881," giving an account of her marriage to and separation and divorce from Brigham Young, with discussion of other wives. The recipient is Jennie Anderson Froiseth, editor of the Anti-Polygamy Standard (1880-1883) and author of The women of Mormonism; or the story of polygamy as told by the victims themselves (1882). The letter is written on letterhead from the Richmond House hotel (Paducah, Kentucky) and the steamer John S. Hopkins, of the Evansville, Paducah and Cairo Steam Packet Company and includes a question about women's suffrage in Wyoming, information about her efforts to enlist subscribers for the Anti-Polygamy Standard, and details of her upcoming itinerary in Kentucky and Indiana.

Cited in:

Described in OK, I’ll do it myself: narratives of intrepid women in the American wilderness: selections from the Caroline F. Schimmel Collection, New York (exhibit catalog, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Kislak Center, 2018), p. 36 (no. 30).

Cited as:

Ann Eliza Young letter to Jennie Anderson Froiseth (Misc Mss Box 24 Folder 38). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

OCLC:

1345637842