Eleanor Shipp Johnson Papers, 1873-1954 | Sargeant Memorial Collection

Scope and Contents: Correspondence, diaries, and manuscripts of Eleanor Shipp Johnson from circa 1900s-1940s. The correspondence includes letters written by Anna Cogswell Wood in Florence and Montreux during the 1920s and letters from various publishers either accepting or rejecting Johnson's manuscripts for publication, roughly from 1900-1935. Johnson's notebooks and loose manuscripts contain materials that appear to be primarily written by her; many of these literary works portray racial stereotypes of African Americans. The collection also includes a diary of her trip to Europe in 1925 and diaries with brief daily entries from 1938-1943.