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Annie Abel-Henderson Papers, 1860-1939

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Abel-Henderson, Annie Heloise
Title
Annie Abel-Henderson Papers
Dates
1860-1939 (inclusive)
Quantity
17 containers., (8 linear feet of shelf space.)
Collection Number
Cage 246
Summary
Notes, books, letters, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and printed material collected by Dr. Abel-Henderson re: native (Indian) policies of various English speaking countries; American history; Russian history; woman's sufferage. Concerned primarily with the 19th century.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Biographical Note

[From The Record: Friends of the Library, State College of Washington (Pullman, Washington), January 1948, pp. 6-7.]

"Doctor Annie Heloise Abel Henderson [1873-1947] was undoubtedly one of the ablest women historians of her day. Honors came to her early in her career, for her doctoral dissertation on "The History of Events, Resulting in Indian Consolidation West of the Mississippi" won her the coveted Justin Winsor prize bestowed upon her by the American Historical Association in 1906.

Throughout her scholarly career native policies of the British and American governments constituted her chief but not sole interest. The Slave Holding Indians, a large three-volume tome, was published during the ten-year period 1915-1925 and is considered by most historians as her crowning achievement. One of her most interesting assignments she set for herself, however, was to track down the journal of Pierre Antoine Tabeau. In her pursuit of this treasure, she revealed all of the patience, astuteness, and penetrating powers of deduction expected only of a Sherlock Holmes or G-man. On one occasion a class in Pacific Northwest history had the good fortune to hear her tell her experiences on the trail of this significant document. Several students were so interested that they requested the opportunity to meet her later and get more of her stories about these treasure hunts. Inclined to be somewhat formal in her public appearances, she was definitely at her best in a small circle of kindred spirits.

Retirement from teaching did not stop her researches and professional work. Her book reviews were models of critical analysis. She made it a practice to trace to the original sources all statements of facts used by an author to form a conclusion. Frequently her critiques were more painstaking than those made by the author. She continued to ferret out hidden documents and manuscripts. During the last months of her life, she was working on two papers. One of these was on the subjects of "British Native Policy and the Colonization of South Australia"; the other has the title "Removal, a One-Time Phase of Canadian Indian Policy." Both the unfinished manuscripts and the transcribed copies of the source materials were sent to the State College. They will be completed and edited by members of the staff of the Department of History and sent to the proper scholarly journals for publication.

Doctor Henderson gave the State College autographed presentation copies of each of the books she published. She also made the College the beneficiary of most of her working library. Her scholarship was proof that these books were subject to continued use; the fine condition of the books attest to the great respect this scholar had for the printed page.

Although a scholar first and foremost, Doctor Henderson was an ardent protagonist of closer understanding between English speaking peoples. Her acquaintance was not merely with British and Yankee, but she knew the peoples of all of the countries which make up the British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations. She shared with others the conviction that closer ties between those who upheld the Anglo Saxon traditions of liberty and freedom could well lead to their realization by all peoples of the world."

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Content Description

The Annie Abel-Henderson Papers consist of notes, letters, newspaper clippings, manuscripts, and printed material relating to her scholarship on native (Indian) policies of various English-speaking countries ( Canada, Great Britain, Britain in the South Seas, and the U.S.) and other historical subjects, including Australia, New Zealand, American History, Russian History, and woman's suffrage. The time-span is chiefly the nineteenth century.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 246, Guide to the Annie Abel-Henderson Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Processing Note

The present organization of this collection appears to reflect the state achieved after original processing. It is not possible to clearly determine when this work was done or the extent to which this arrangement reflects the original order of the collection or its re-organization by the archivist (whose name is not given in the extant records). This guide reflects the contents and arrangement of the original archival finding aid, though it was slightly expanded and revised by Manuscripts Librarian Robert N. Matuozzi in March of 2001.

Related Materials

Judge and Mrs. W. H. Abel, Montesano, have in 1948 presented to Washington State University between four and five-hundred carefully selected volumes from their own private library in memory of their sister, Doctor Annie Heloise Abel Henderson. Appropriate book plates have been placed in these volumes, which are now available to the students, the faculty, and the increasing number of visitors making use of our great collection of books, newspaper files, brochures, and manuscripts.

Annie Abel Henderson Papers, 1823-1934. In the University of British Columbia Library, Vancouver. Approximately 6ft.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Miscellaneous

    • Description: Correspondence with Dr. Annie H. Abel-Henderson and Miscellaneous Judge W. H. Abel re: the acquisition of the Abel Henderson collection by Washington State University. (Provides a good summary and scope of the collection)
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 1
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Reviewed and republished articles by Annie H. Abel Henderson.
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 2
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Correspondence re: Honor System carried on by Dr. Abel-Henderson as head of the Honors Committee at Smith College
      Dates: 1916-1919
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 3
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: New England and New Zealand and the High Water Mark of British Colonization.''
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 4
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Lectures re: American relations with Britain and British colonies; Western attitudes toward formation of Choctaw Indian state.
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 5
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Letters from Roger Casement to Foxbourne, Old Calabar, West Africa.
      Dates: 1894
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 6
      Location: Miscellaneous
    • Description: Newspaper clippings on British and American Suffragists.
      Container: Box/Folder 1 / 7
      Location: Miscellaneous

  • Material re: British Native Policy

  • British Native Policy in the South Seas

  • Canadian Indian Policy

    • Description: Copies of reports from the Canadian Commission of Indian Affairs re: Canadian Indians.
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 47
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Canadian Indians, by the Dept. of Indian Affairs.
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 48
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Map of townships in Mifsifsaqua Indian reservation.
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 49
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Photostats of Canadian Indian Records.
      Dates: 1830-1840
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 50
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: One of the Makers of Canada, a review of Narcisse E. Dionne's biography of Samuel De Champlain.
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 51
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Removal, a One-Time Phase of the Canadian Indian Policy, (mss.)
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 52
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes taken at Dominion Archives, Ottawa in preparation for Removal, a One-Time Phase of Canadian Indian Policy.
      Container: Box/Folder 8 / 53
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on Canadian Indian Policy.
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 54
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from the Darling Letter Book, Napier Letter Book, and the Geo. Ironside Letter Book.
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 55
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes re: Indian Affairs- Montreal office; United States Indian Policy vs. Canadian Indian policy.
      Container: Box/Folder 9 / 56
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Newspaper clippings re: Canadian politics.
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 57
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes re: Indian Dept. Letter Books; Indians of Canada; Sam. P. Jarvis to C.F. Murdoch.
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 58
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Montauk Indians of Long Island (mss.)
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 59
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from U.S. Indian office re: Pacific Northwest Indians.
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 60
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from the records of the Office of Indian Affairs re: U.S.- Indian relations in the 1860s. Deals with the organization of territory.
      Container: Box/Folder 10 / 61
      Location: Canadian Indian Policy

  • United States Indian Policy

    • Description: Notes on George Champlin Sibley, Indian Factor at Fort Osage.
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 62
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Pamphlets, notes and articles re: American Indian affairs.
      Container: Box/Folder 11 / 63
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Photostat copies of (U.S. Indian agent Cass Letter Books. (Remarks of Ramsey Crooks to Gov. L. Cass.)
      Dates: 1819-1821
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 65
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on Stubb's charters and documents. ; The Curia Regis in Relation to the Parliament and the law courts (chart); Map Showing Fort McCullough.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 66
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes re: Indians in Kansas.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 67
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: To the President of the United States from the Delaware Indians
      Dates: January 14, l904
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 68
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: The Policy of the Spanish government Toward the Indians, (mss.)
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 69
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes re: the Delaware Indians in the American Revolution.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 70
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes re: Iowa Land Grants, Roleffe road.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 71
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from Geo. C. Sibley Papers.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 72
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Newspaper clippings re: Indians.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 73
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Newspaper clipping re: Indians of the Pacific Northwest.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 74
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on U.S. Indian Policy.
      Container: Box/Folder 12 / 75
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on American History.
      Container: Box/Folder 13 / 76 - 77
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on American History.
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 78
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: A Protestant Missionary Bishop: Rt. Rev. Geo. K. Dunlop, S.T.D. Bishop of New Mexico and Arizona. (journal article).
      Dates: 1880-1886
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 79
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Newspaper clippings re: Custer; Audubon.
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 80
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Clippings, reprints, etc. re: U.S. History; Slavery; Philippines; the Treaty of Ghent.
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 81
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Newspaper clippings re: Jason Lee.
      Container: Box/Folder 14 / 82
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from a Constitutional History course under Geo. Burton Adams.
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 83
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from an American Colonial History course under Dr. E. G. Boure.
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 84
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes from an American National History course under Dr. E. G. Boure.
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 85
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on the Russian Revolution.
      Container: Box/Folder 15 / 86
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Notes on the Russian Revolution.
      Container: Box/Folder 16 / 87 - 88
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Transcripts, Calif. Files, U.S. Indian Affairs.
      Dates: 1849-1852
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 89 - 90
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Transcripts, Calif. Files, U.S. Indian Affairs.
      Dates: 1853-1859
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 91 - 92
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Transcripts, Calif. Files, U.S. Indian Affairs.
      Dates: 1860-1872
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 93 - 94
      Location: United States Indian Policy
    • Description: Transcripts, Calif. Files, U.S. Indian Affairs, notes.
      Dates: 1875-1876
      Container: Box/Folder 17 / 93 - 94
      Location: United States Indian Policy

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Subject Terms

  • Australian aborigines--Government relations
  • Indians of North America--Government relations
  • Russia -- History--1801-1917--Research
  • United States --History--19th century--Research

Personal Names

  • Abel-Henderson, Annie Heloise--Archives (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Robert N. Matuozzi
2012

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