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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC01584.01 |
| From Archive Folder | Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Title | Harriet Stowe to Dr. Stone requesting discretion over the writing of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' |
| Date | 1851 |
| Author | Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) |
| Recipient | Stone, Dr. |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Writes from "Woodside Cottage." Says she just received his letter and hopes to see him in Boston next week. Asks him "to make no public mention if you have not, of the Uncle Tom project till I have seen you. Don't mention it at any rate till then." Stowe began writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in early 1851. The recipient may be Rev. Thomas Treadwell Stone (1801-1895), a Unitarian minister, writer, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist from Massachusetts. |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Uncle Tom Literature and Language Arts Women's History Abolition Reform Movement Transcendentalism Woman Author |
| People | Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896) |
| Place written | Brunswick, Maine |
| Theme | Women in American History; Arts & Literature; Slavery & Abolition; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1493-1859 |
| Additional Information | Woodside Cottage may have been located near Brunswick, Maine, where Stowe would have been living with her family in early 1851. |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Settlement, Commerce, Revolution and Reform: 1493-1859 |