LETTER: Autograph letter signed, "Phoebe Hanaford," very light, but also signed by Lucretia Mott and several others.
ALS, "Phoebe Hanaford," very light, but also signed by Lucretia Mott and several others.
8vo., one leaf, two pages.
A faint letter written and signed by Hanaford, signed by Lucretia Mott and several others.
Born a Quaker in Nantucket in 1866, Hanaford became the first woman to be ordained in Massachusetts when she was called to the First Universalist Church in Hingham. Thereafter she served several New England churches. She was active in the temperance and suffrage movements, and wrote copiously for periodicals, as well as publishing ten books, among them a biography of Lincoln.
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