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Hanna Judson Papers

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Identifier: RG-1615

Content Description

Materials on the Judson and Hanna families, 1826-1942

Dates

  • Creation: 1826-1942

Creator

Language of Materials

All materials within this collection are in English.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Extent

4.4 Linear Feet (5 boxes)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

From George Tooze on behalf of Stanley Hanna, 2007 and 2008, David Hanna, 2009, and Eileen Pokorny, 2019.

Related Materials

See also American Baptist Foreign Mission Society: Missionary Correspondence.

There are also small collections at ABHS given at other times. Please see Adoniram Judson RG 1114, Ann Hasseltine Judson RG 1108, Emily C. Judson RG 1099, Sarah Boardman Judson RG 1093 and Edward Judson RG 1048.

File Plan

Box 1

Letters, # 1-30: Adoniram Judson to Emily Chubbuck (copy, but no original for letter #24); Letters, # 1-27: Emily Chubbuck to Adoniram Judson; Letters, # 1-100: Emily to Cynthia Sheldon (#66 missing at time of gift); Letters, # 1-47: N. P. Willis (publisher) to Fanny Forrester (Emily's pen name); Notebook, Emily of friends or people she knew; two notebooks of what appear to be sermon notes from 1934 through 1936; Biographical information (Source unknown genealogy information - eight pages - Simeon Chubbuck – Charles Chubbuck - Beniamin Chubbuck - Emily Chubbuck – Walker Chubbock - Wm Wallace - death dates; photograph of Anna Maria Anable; Photograph of Emily Frances Judson Hanna

1 album of family photographs: Misses Anable School: Emily Frances Judson - standing fourth from left; Emily Frances Judson Hanna; Aunty or Anna Maria Anable; Anna Maria Anable from box photo; (front) "Aunty" - (back) 1864 Anna Maria Anable; (front) 1861 - (back) Abby A Judson Abby Ann Judson; (front) Mother - "Aunty" - Aunt F. A. Fanny Anable man and woman unidentified I wonder if the man is Courtland Anable and the other women are Harriet or Hatty Anable, Mary Anable, Anna Maria Anable, and Fanny Anable; (front) Uncle Ado Adoniram Brown Judson; (front) Mother and Tom Emily Frances Judson Hanna and Thomas Hanna; (front) Uncle Edw - Ed. Judson Brother 1862 Edward Judson; Ship Tudur see letter and map from 1851; (front) Uncle A and Mother- (back) A. B. and E. F. Judson 1864 Adoniram Brown Judson and Emily Frances Judson; (front) Uncle Elnathan - (back) Eln. Judson - Brother - 1861? Elnathan Judson; (front) George Boardman - (back) G. Boardman Brother 1864 George Dana Boardman; (front) Uncle Ado - (back) A. Judson Brother 1864 Adoniram Brown Judson; Anna Maria Anable; (Front) Aunt Fanny Anable - (back) Miss F. Anable 1863 Fanny Anable; (front) Mother - (back) May 1, 1868 Emily Frances Judson; (front)Mother - (back) Emmie C. Judson Emily Frances Judson; (front) Uncle Henry - (back) Henry H. Judson Henry Hall Judson; (front) Uncle Ed – Mother Edward Judson - Emily Frances Judson; (front) Aunt Abby 2nd (back) Abby A. Judson Abby Ann Judson; (front) Father T. A. T. Hanna; (front) Geo. Boardman 1864 - (back) Geo. D. Boardman George Dana Boardman; (front) Father T. A. T. Hanna; (back) Emily Judson Hanna and (crossed out) half brother husband T.A.T.; (front) Aunt Minnie; (back) Abby A. Judson Abby Ann Judson

Surrogates of album photographs

Box 2 Bible, no visible publication date

Box 3 Folder 1 One notebook. seventy four pages • p.l - Articles published, 1838 - 1842, in the Madison Observer, Republican Monitor, Syracuse Whig, Onondaga Standard, Hamilton Palladium • p.2 - Articles Published 1839, Baptist Register, Mother's Journal, Democratic Reflection • p.3 - (page cut in half) - The Geode • p.4 - (top half missing) -lines By Miss Mary Florence Noble • p.5 - (top of page) - lines By Miss Mary Florence Noble - continued • (Here the notebook is reversed and we start from the other end) • p.la - Songs, My Bonny sleigh • p. 2a- The Love of Womanhood, Legal Homicide • p. 3a - Legal Homicide - continued, Autumn • p. 4a - Autumn - continued, Faith, Hope, and Charity (next three pages are torn out) • p. Sa - Faith, Hope, and Charity - continued, A Welcome (Alderbrook) • p. 6a - A Welcome - continued • p. 7a - My Mother (Alderbrook) • p. 8a - My Mother - continued, Life • p. 9a - My Father (Alderbrook) • p. l0a - My Father - continued • p. lla - Ministering Angels (Alderbrook) • p. 12a - Ministering Angels - continued • p. l3a - The Old Man (Alderbrook) • p. 14a - The Old Man - continued • p. 15a - The Old Man - continued, To L. and M.D. The Buds of the Saranac (Alderbrook), Sonnet to Winter (Alderbrook) • p. 16a - Lights and Shades (Alderbrook), Stanzas • p. 17a - Stanzas - continued, My Childhood • p. 18a- My Childhood - continued, Life, Newspaper Poem signed by Zoe (from The Young Ladies' Miscellany) • p. 19a - Life - continued, The Waning Years • p. 20a - The Waning Years - continued, The Flowers • p. 21 a - The Flowers - continued, Song p. 22a Song, continued, Dreaming • p. 23a - Dreaming - continued, Love and Friendship

Folder 2 One document, two pages - A story - Once there were two mothers

One Document, fourteen pages - Pages 1 - 6, The Infidel; pages 7 - 14, The Dissatisfied Spirit

One Document, one page - The Christian Going Home

One Document, one page - Poem, Suggested by Mrs. Sigourney's lines "to a goose"

One document, two pages - When the mists have rolled away

One Document, four pages - a letter to Virginia Dinzey from her father.

Three-page letter from Myers and Anable, Courtland V. Anable, dated August 20, 1896, to Mrs. Emily Judson Hanna (Emily Frances Judson). This letter outlines the estate provisions as stated in the will of Anna Maria Anable

One Notebook - (4" x 6"), 62 pages. Presented to Miss Emily E. Chubbuck by Miss Lydia A. Allen. The Notebook is filled with notes taken of sermons

Folder 3 One Document - twelve pages. Pages 1 - 11, Astonroga, or The Maid of the Rock, 32 stanzas.

Page 12, Sonnet: "And hast thou ever lived, Angelick Nell."

One Document, eight pages - The Voyager - An Allegory

Folder 4 An embroidered baby waist made by Emily Chubbuck Judson for her daughter Emily Frances, and then given to Elizabeth Stevens. This was returned to Stanley Hanna by Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, grandchildren of Elizabeth and Edward Stevens

Folder 5 Letter from John Hasseltine (father of Ann Hasseltine Judson) to Adoniram Judson (father of Adoniram Judson) dated December 22, 1823-4 pages

4-page manuscript labeled "For the Palladium" and addressed to Mr. Atwood with the title "A Fable". This is in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck.

Two pages, in the handwriting of Emily, with the title "Song."

Two pages, the Poem "Angel Charley", written in the handwriting of Emily C. Judson

A three-page letter dated November 8, 1853, in the handwriting of Emily C. Judson, written to Miss Cynthia Sheldon.

A three-page document in the handwriting of Emily C. Judson. The Title on the first page is "A Nursery Daguerreotype Taken at 311 , for 'Aunty Anna'''. A second section is dated Phila May 20/53, and says that "Aunty Anna considering herself insulted by the last stanza, Lilly Minney withdraws the interrogative thus:" and the last stanza is rewritten. Then on page three there is a note signed A.M.A. (Anna Maria Anable): "An impromptu written while watching the plays of the children in my room. It has been published in the Mother's Journal."

4 page manuscript, title is crossed out and unreadable - poetic verse wit marginal notes as it was reworked, in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck

clipping, Mrs. Emily C. Judson by Charles Thurber, August 1857; obverse has copy of a poem from "the pen of the late Mrs. Emily C. Judson", to the memory of Professor Daniel Hascall

Three-page letter dated November 8, 1853, in the handwriting of Emily C. Judson, written to Miss Cynthia Sheldon

Poem, "Eccentric Passages", four pages in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck, sent to Charles Fenno Hoffman in New York

Letter, November 17, 1853, from Emily Frances Judson to "My dear Brothers, Addy and Elly."

Poem, "The Old Man or A Description of my Grandfather, by E. E. Chubbuck," (3 pages in the handwriting of Emily Chubbuck.)

Folder 6 Notebook Number 2 (88 pages, all in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck) • Page 1 - Hamilton, June – 18 (page torn) - "A smile sits ever on my brow" • Page 2 - July 18th - Mrs. Day sister of Miss Marillon Alliram Clark is a missionary to Madras • Page 3 - Sabbath evening - A prayer "Father I've wander'd far", and a poem "And is Mary dead." • Page 4 - Morrisville, July 21, 1828 - "Ambition" • Page 5 - Hamilton, Friday eve - "What a strange lack of poets", also "The better land." • Page 6 - Hamilton, September, 1828 - To Lydia Ann - "Parting" • Page 7 - Morrisville, June 30, 1838 - "My eon-tru." Also "Miss. L. M. Reed - A True gem." • Page 8 - Morrisville, Jan. 1838 - "Why not attend church?" • Page 9 - last stanza of "Why not attend church?" Also "Without a pilot we are thrown". Also Miss. M. Dawson. • Page 10 - 12 September 18, 1838 - "I'm weary of this continual - ah me! I have liv'd too long," Also Miss M. Williams • Page 13 - Morrisville - September 4th, 1840 - "M. thinks my happiness is 'seeming all." "Also Mrs. R. Randall." • Page 14 - 15 "The dying Poet to his sister • Page 16 - "For H. cooper on the death of his sister" • Page 17 - December 24, 1839 - "To Maria. Also a poem crossed out, title unreadable. • Page 18 - "She was a sweet girl - that Mary Cleaveland" • Page 19 - April, 1840 - "Song of the Southern Wind" • Page 20 - "Song" continued. Also "The coquette". Also two short poems with titles marked out and unreadable. • Page 21 - Mrs. Lucy C. Blaine". • Page 22 - "Childhood's sorrows." Also "Catharine Fry." • Pages 23 and 24 missing • Page 25 - "Catharine Fry" continued. Also "An extract." • Page 26 - July 4, 1840 - "Witch's Soliloquy." • Page 27 - "To Sophia." • Page 28 - "song of the Maniac" • Page 29 - July 10, 1840 - "I have been dreaming, sure - a witching dream." • Page 30 - July 20, 1840 - A fancy" • Two sided page torn out - writing seen along edge • Page 31 (missing pages not counted) - August 20, 1840 - "Yesterday I saw thousands and met very many familiar faces." • Page 32 - August 31, 1840 - "Well what next?" • Page 33 - 34 "Song - A Sketch," Also, "To Sophia" • Page 35 - 37 "Where are the Dead?" Also 'The vision (September 8, 1840. • Page 38 - "The lips of those I lov'd" • Page 39 - "A wish for the lov'd". Also "Think not of me." • Page 40 - "To Sophia." Also "Bright Thoughts." • Page 41- "Autumn." Also "For the Misses Allen on the death of their sister." • Page 42 - 43 "The Emigrant's Story." • Page 44 - 48 "The Old Man" • Page 49 - 50 'To Rev. Mr. K. - an Evangelist," Also Utica Female Acad. - October "O earth I cannot love thee - thy dark chain" • Page 51 - "Psalm 146.5" Also "Miss U. Sheldon" • Page 52 - Utica Female Acd. October 9, 1840, "Miss Sarah Hastings." Also "O I feel so alone" • Page 53 and 54 missing • Page 55 - "To Miss H. Munson" • Page 56 - "The Scotch Emigrant Girl's Song" • Page 57 - To a Young Girl in the act of taking the Veil" • Page 58 - "The Druid" • Page 59 - "To Hatty" • Page 60 - "A Sleigh-Ride in Yankee Land" • Page 61 - A Sleigh-Ride in Yankee Land" continued • Page 62 - 64 "Cromwell's vision," Also "Broken thoughts during a day of partial illness" • Page 65 - 67 - "Broken thoughts" continued. Also "The birds' petition". • Page 68 - "The bird's petition" continued • Page 69 - "Kindness, Trust and Love" • Page 70 - "Song" • Page 71 - "Song" continued. Also "An Epigram" • Page 72 - "Dreams wear out the spirit" • Page 73 - "Dreams wear out the spirit" continued. Also "And still I linger - still the earthly evil" • Page 74 - 75 "Stanzas." Also "To F. H." Oct. 12. • Page 76 - "To M. J. A. on her birthday" • Page 77 - "To M. J. A. on her birthday" continued. Also, "The Needle's reply to an address made by a poetaster" • Page 78 - "To M.W." • Page 79 - "A half sonnet." Also "An Aerostick." • Page 80 - 81 "Suggested by Mrs. Sigourney's lines 'to a goose,'" Also "For Miss Damaux" • Page 82 - "For Miss Damaux" continued • Page 83 - "He has made every thing beautiful" • Page 84 - "He has made every thing beautiful" continued. Also "When people are interrupted," • Page 85 - "Written after reading Southey's 'Vision of Judgement'" Also conclusion of "A Ballad" • Page 86 - or page 3 from other direction - "A Ballad" • Page 87 - or page 2 from other direction - "The Boblink" • Page 88 - Notebook is upside down - starts as if new - "I have a lively sympathy for deformed people -"

Notebook Number 3 (33 pages, all in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck) • Page 1 - 2 "Dying Maniac's song during a thunderstorm." Also - June, 1828, "Address to a bird on a rose-bush • Page 3 - "Address to a bird on a rose-bush" - continued • Page 4 - Essay - "Between the ages of eleven and fourteen" • Page 5 - 15 "The Wanderer" • Page 16 - 29 "The London Merchant" • Page 30 - "The Wanderer" continued. Also "Life" • Page 31 - "Irishman's address to his country" • Page 32 - "On finding a gold coin" • Page 33 - The Wanderer's complaint"

Notebook Number 4, 26 pages, all in the handwriting of Emily E. Chubbuck) • Page 1 - Utica Fem. Acad. - Oct. 16th 1840 "The Old Man" • Page 2 - 3 "The Old Man" continued • Page 4 - "What is life" • Page 5 - Utica Female Academy, October 23, 1840 "What is life" continued. Also "The world a century hence" • Page 6 - Utica Female Acad. - October 30, 1840 "The world a century hence" continued • Page 7 - 8 "The world a century hence" continued • Page 9 - 11 November 10, 1840 "A morning scene at Utica Female Acad." • Page 12 - 14 "The importance to Ladies of cultivating a talent for Conversation" • Page 15 - "To the Old Year" • Page 16 - 18 "Solitude" • Page 19 - 20 "The coming Spring" • Page 21 - "The coming Spring" continued Also May 1, 1841 - 'Words written by Miss E. E. Chubbuck for Mrs. Anable and Misses C. and U. Sheldon, Mary Anable, May Queen." • Page 22 - "To a young girl in the act of Taking the Vail" • Page 23 - Newspaper clippings - Marriage announcement of Adoniram Judson and Emily Chubbuck - Poem "A Prayer for Dear Papa" - Poem - "Samson" - Poem "My Three Treasures" • Page 24 - Newspaper clippings - "Poem 'To the Southern Cross" - Poem - "Angel Charlie" - Announcement of the appointment of Miss Lydia Lillybridge for missionary service

Anna Maria Anable, Inventory of Articles in Hamilton Bank for Emily Frances Judson, June 3rd, 1854

Folder 7 Emily E. Chubbuck notebook • Poem: first line: “Hast thou toss’d upon the billow,” • Poem: “To Sarah, - Love 1830 • Poem: “Written on the day I left school” April 1831 • Poem: “A portrait drawn for my cousin? 1826 • Prose: “A Dialogue” 1829 • Poem: “The Salem Murder” Poem: “The Braid of God. To Abby”

Article: For the “Mother’s Journal” “The works of God the best teachers”

Poem: “The Caged Robin”

Poem: “Fanny Forester’s Bird” (Also known as “My Bird”

Poem: first line: “When the winds are howling round us” Written: Ship Tudor – May 28th, 1851 Poem: “March” This poem by “Mrs. Sigourney” is in Emily’s handwriting

Poem: “The Little Girl’s Soliloquy”

Poem: Untitled – though it is a continuation of “The Little Girl’s Soliloquy” – the first stanza of this version matches the second stanza of the other version – all of the other stanzas are different.

Poem: “Morning Thoughts” It is noted that this was “Published in the Madison Observer"

Story: “The following “adventure” occurred while on a visit“

Story: “Pen and Ink Sketch: A Hamilton Scene”

Poem: The poem that Emily wrote for Urania Sheldon at the time of her marriage to the Reverend Doctor Eliphalet Nott

Poem: “Mee Shway-ee” (With a note: “There is an account of the happy death of this little slave girl, in a tract prepared by Mrs. Wade”). This is a shorter version of a long poem by the same name that appeared in An Olio of Domestic Verses

Poem: “On the death of a Sister”

Poem: untitled: first line reads “Now, none to greet us kindly here,” We believe this to be a poem that Emily Judson addressed to Adoniram Judson during their 1847 stay in Rangoon.

A workbook in Emily Chubbuck’s writing with some completed and some uncompleted poems

Poem: untitled – first two lines read: “I loved the flowers in childhood, / And wept that they should die”

two pages of poetry in progress – lines crossed out and written over

Poem: “Reminiscences” (four pages)

Poem: “Sorry”

Poem: untitled – first line: “Above the din of slayers and of slain”. This is in a handwriting that is not Emily’s

Poem: untitled – first line: “Sadly straying – sadly straying,”

Poem: “Lines”

Newspaper clipping: “A Poem – By Fanny Forrester” with an introductory note by N. P. Willis. This poem was later titled “My Angel Guide” or “Angel Guide”

Newspaper clipping: “Poetry – A Gem from Fanny Forester”. This was a poem that Emily wrote for her mother as she was leaving for Burma. It was intended for Alderbrook, and was independently published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields as a “teaser” for the coming publication of Alderbrook

Poem: untitled – first line: “Can’t you come this way and see me?”

Emily Frances Judson Sketchbook – Nov. – 1858 – when she was eleven years old

Folder 8 Botanical specimens from Burma, now known as Myanmar



Box 4 Calmet’s Dictionary of the Holy bible as published by (the late) Charles Taylor, NY, Crocker and Brewster, 1832, Emily M. Hanna

Introductory Hebrew Method and Manual, by William Harper, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, Emily M. Hanna (A.C. Hanna)

The Battle of Gettysburg and other poems, by A. T. Hanna, NY, Broadway Publishing, 1912, Emily M. Hanna

The Lives of Ann H. Judson, Sarah B. Judson and Emily C. Judson, by Arabella Wilson, NY, Miller Orton and Co, 1857, Emily M. Hanna (Smith, M.D.) (Mrs. Perkins)

Introductory New Testament Greek Method, by William Harper and Revere Franklin Weidner, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895, Emily M. Hanna (William Finch)

Elements of Hebrew Syntax, by an inductive method, 7th ed., by William Harper, NY Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906, A.C. Hanna

The New Testament or the Book of the Holy Gospel, translated from, the Syriac Peshito version by James Murdock, NY, Stanford and Swords, 1855, To Emily from Papa

An Olio of Domestic Justice by Emily Judson, NY, Lewis 'Colby, 1852, Emily H. Judson (Mrs. M.H. Perkins)

Hammonds Universal World Atlas, NY, CS Hammond, 1942, Emily M. Hanna from George 1943

The Polyglot New Testament with marginal readings 1831 S. Catherine Chubbuck (Emily Miriam Hanna)

Analytical Concordance to the Bible, Robert Young. New York. American Book Exchange 1881 (Emily H. from Papa, 1947)



Box 5 Greek and English Lexicon, Lidell and Scott, based on the German work of Francis Passow, Harper and Brothers, 1852, Emily M. Hanna

Elementary Hebrew Syntax, by William Henry Green, NY, John Wiley and Sons, 1894

Emily Judson Hanna 2019 addition: Emily Judson Hanna death certificate, newspaper clippings

  • Analytical Concordance Robert Young 1881
  • Webster's Dictionary 1907
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