Scrapbook II., 04/21/1877-01/15/1879

File — Box: 1, Folder: 2

Identifier: 41563

Collection-level Scope and Content Note

From the Collection:

The Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren papers consist of one scrapbook intact, containing material dating from 1885 through 1888; a fragment of a scrapbook, containing material dating 1877 through 1879; and one tintype, possibly of the Irish statesman, Charles Stewart Parnell. The following description of this collection begins with the complete scrapbook, designated Scrapbook I. The fragmented Scrapbook II follows, with the tintype as the last item in the collection. Itemization of material within each scrapbook is by page number pencilled in [ ] on each page. Inserts glued in between proper pages are designated with a page number followed by a letter [a, b, or c]. Terms in the Index are referenced by the page numbers in [ ]. To distinguish between the two scrapbooks, check folder numbers to the right of the index. Datespan: 1877-1888 Size: 0.25 linear feet, 1 box

The Georgetown University Archives houses a fair amount of material about the Dahlgren family. This includes 4 folders in the Alumni Files about John Vinton Dahlgren, including autograph letters from him to various university administrators. In addition, files, comprising 0.50 linear feet, are available on the Dahlgren Memorial Chapel located on the main campus of the university. The chapel was a gift of John Vinton and his wife Eliza Drexel, built in memory of their son, Joseph Drexel Dahlgren who died in infancy (1891). He is buried now in the chapel in the Dahlgren family crypt. Cardinal James Gibbons officiated at the laying of the cornerstone to the chapel in May 1892. Information concerning other donations from the Dahlgren family to Georgetown University is also available from the University Archives.

Dates

04/21/1877-01/15/1879

Collection-level Access Restrictions

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Extent

From the Collection: 0.21 Linear Feet (1 Hollinger Slim Document Case)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Container Summary

[p.75] @ "Woman-Suffrage" (The Daily Times, St. Louis, March 17, 1878). A critical response to MVD's memorial, "Anti-Suffrage Women" (see Scrapbook II p. 73). This is written by Virigina L. Minor (1824-1894), suffragette and the first woman to claim suffrage as a woman's right and not a favor to be granted. @ "The Baron de Overbeck" (Toledo Blade, April 15, 1878). News item about Baron de Overbeck, husband to MVD's daughter Romaine Goddard. Baron de Overbeck was put in command of the steamship America which was chartered by a British company. @ "Astor-Paul" (c. June 2, 1878). News item reporting the marriage of William Waldorf Astor to a Miss Paul. The latter's mother was a sister of JAD's first wife, Mary Bunker. @ [p.77] @ (Daily Times, St. Louis, March 13, 1878) Untitled news item reporting on the Senate hearings of Isabella Beecher Hooker for women's suffrage and of MVD against it. @ "Angled at Anglim's" (Washington Post, March 28, 1878). A review of MVD's translation from the original French of a monogram by Charles Adolphe de Pineton, Marquis de Chambrun, entitled, " The Executive Power in the United States: a Study of Constitutional Law" (trans. 1874). @ [p.79] @ "T.W.S.A. April Meeting of the Toledo Woman Suffrage Association..." (c.April 1878). News item re. meeting of the TWSA with a transcription of an open letter to MVD from its president Rosa L. Segur protesting MVD's stance against women's suffrage. @ "Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren Replies" (April 11, 1878). MVD responds to the preceding article: "Its perusal offers a convincing argument...that women are apt to yield to emotional impressions, and thus ignore the logic of an argument." @ "A Card from Mme. Dahlgren" (Chicago Times, April 11, 1878). Letter to the editor from MVD clarifying the facts re. the burial of her son Ulric's leg in the cornerstone of an ordnance foundry building (see also Scrapbook II, p. 71). @

Subjects and Associated Physical Materials

MINOR, VIRGINIA L. - "WOMAN-SUFFRAGE" (ARTICLE) [75]: Printed Item

OVERBECK, BARON DE - ARTICLE ON [75]: Printed Item

DAHLGREN, MARY BUNKER - REFERENCE [75]: Printed Item

ASTOR, WILLIAM WALDORF - MARRIAGE [75]: Printed Item

HOOKER, ISABELLA BEECHER - WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE [77]: Printed Item

DAHLGREN, MADELEINE V. - "EXECUTIVE POWER IN...U.S." (TRANS) [77]: Printed Item

CHAMBRUN, MARQUIS DE - TRANSLATED BY MADELEINE DAHLGREN [77]: Printed Item

PINETON, CHARLES ADOLPHE DE - SEE: CHAMBRUN, MARQUIS DE [77]: Printed Item

WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, TOLEDO - LETTER BY ROSA L. SEGUR [79]: Printed Item

SEGUR, ROSA L./WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION, TOLEDO (ARTICLE)[79]: Printed Item

DAHLGREN, MADELEINE V. - WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE (ARTICLE) [79]: Printed Item

DAHLGREN, ULRIC - MEMORIAL FOR HIS LEG (ARTICLE) [79]: Printed Item