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Emily Chubbuck Judson miscellany

Collection — manuscript box: 63 - folder 1

Identifier: 4026

Scope and content

Correspondence and clippings regarding Emily Chubbuck Judson; names included in the papers are Florence J. Allen, Jerrell L. Potter, Isaac Leland, Cynthia Chubbuck, and Adoniram Judson.

Dates

1936-1964.

Creator

Judson, Emily Chubbuck, 1817-1854. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Emily Chubbuck Judson was a successful author in the 1840s using the pen name Fanny Forester. In 1846 she married Rev. Adoniram Judson, a missionary to Burma, and helped him compile a Burmese dictionary. Judson died on a return trip to America in 1850, and Emily Chubbuck Judson died four years later.