Resse, Elizabeth Woodbridge Phelps Pearsall, [ca.
1838]-1924
Elizabeth Woodbridge
Phelps Pearsall Resse papers
1880-1924
University of
Minnesota Libraries. Literary Manuscripts Collections, Manuscripts
Division [mss]
.6 linear feet
The collection contains
several hundred letters to the Countess Resse from friends and others.
Mss 25
English and Italian
Mezzanine
Administrative Information
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Preferred Citation
Elizabeth Woodbridge Phelps Pearsall Resse papers (Mss 25), Literary
Manuscripts Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
Acquisition
Gift of Ruth Shepherd Phelps.
Biographical Sketch for Countess Elizabeth Phelps Resse, circa
1838-1924
Elizabeth Woodbridge Phelps Pearsall Resse was the daughter of Mrs.
Elizabeth B. Phelps, who was active in the early club movement. The
Revolution, the paper for which Susan B. Anthony
was business manager, was for a time printed at Mrs. Phelp's house. Her
daughter was first married to Robert W. Pearsall and started the first
agricultural school for girls in this country on her Long Island estate.
Sometime before 1879 she married Count Pio Resse of Rome. In Rome and Florence
Elizabeth did much work in the tenement districts and was active in many
philanthropic social movements. She was also a composer and was close friends
with Rubinstein, Liszt, and other musicians.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains several hundred letters to the Countess Resse
from friends and others and some miscellaneous materials. Correspondence
includes letters from Amy Beach (composer), Marian MacDowell (wife of Edward
MacDowell and founder of the MacDowell Colony), Jeremiah Curtin (folklorist and
historian), Katharine Beecher Stetson (composer and daughter of Charlotte
Perkins Gilman and Charles Walter Stetson), Grace Ellery Channing (poet,
granddaughter of William Ellery Channing, second wife of Charles Walter
Stetson) and Tyra Kleen (Swedish artist and author) among others.
Index Terms
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog
of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about
related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these
headings.
Resse,
Elizabeth Woodbridge Phelps Pearsall, [ca.
1838]-1924--Correspondence
Beach, H. H. A., Mrs., 1867-1944
MacDowell, Marian Griswold Nevins, 1857-
Curtin, Jeremiah, 1835-1906
Stetson, Katharine Beecher
Channing, Grace Ellery, 1862-1937
Kleen, Tyra af, 1874-
Detailed Contents
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the
collection.
1
Correspondence,
1880-1897
2
Correspondence,
1902-1906
3
Correspondence,
1907-1909
4
Correspondence,
1910-1914
5
Correspondence,
1915-1919
6
Correspondence,
1920-1924
7
Correspondence,
undated
8
Correspondence,
undated
9
Miscellaneous
Contains fragments of letters, calling cards, etc.
10
Bulletin of Minneapolis Institute
of Arts,
June 1921
Contains an essay concerning the Countess's donation of her
collection of handmade Italian lace to the Institute.
11
Photographs
The two photographs are portraits of Tyra Kleen.