Maria Mitchell Personal Library Collection Wish List

Now that the Library is functioning, more books need to be acquired! Please notify me if you find an affordable copy of the following books for the Maria Mitchell Personal Library. Book donations are gladly accepted.

FICTION & POETRY:
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume I by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Lord Byron
In the Sky Garden by Lizzie Champney

SCIENCE & MATH:
Gravitation by Sir George Airy
Elements of Natural Philosophy by W.H.C. Bartlett
A Key to the Solar Compass and Surveyor's Companion by William Austin Burt
A Collection of the Works of Thomas Chalkley by Thomas Chalkley
A Manual of Spherical and Practical Astronomy by William Chauvenet
A Complete Collection of Tables for Navigation and Nautical Astronomy by Jose de Mendoza y Rios
Astronomical Engraving from the Observatory of Harvard College, Harvard College Observatory
Preliminary Discourse by John Hershel
Geometry and Faith by Thomas Hill
A Manual of Chemistry by John Johnston
A Treatise of Meteorology by Elias Loomis
Astronomy for Schools and Colleges by Simon Newcomb
A Treatise of Trigonometry by James E. Oliver
Familiar Astronomy by Hannah Mary Peterson
An Elementary Treatise in Curves, Functions, and Forces by Benjamin Pierce
Physical Geography by Mary Somerville
A Preliminary Dissertation on the Mechanism of the Heavens by Mary Somerville
Flowers and Ferns for Caroline Starbuck by Horace Starbuck, her brother
A Complete System of Astronomy by Samuel Vince and Charles Hutton
The Mariner's Compass Rectified by Andrew Wakeley
Elements of the Differential Calculus by J. R. Young
Essays on the Endowment of Research by Mark Pattison
U.S. Nautical Almanacs

SUFFRAGIST TEXTS & WRITINGS:
The Higher Education of Women by Emily Davies
Characteristics of Woman by Mrs. Jameson
History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & Matilda Joslyn Gage

RELIGION & MORALS:
Darwinism in Morals and Other Essays by Frances Power Cobbe
Geometry and Faith by Thomas Hill
A Catechetical Course of Sermons for the Whole Year by Peter Newcome
The Friend: A Religious and Literary Journal, Robert Smith, editor

Books and authors that need more research and may be a part of her library are:
Louisa May Alcott, George Sand, Herman Melville's Redburn, attended a public reading by Dickens of The Cricket on the Heath, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Summer on the Lakes by Margaret Fuller, James Freeman Clarke (biographer of Margaret Fuller), Matthew Arnold, Loomis' The Recent Progress of Astronomy

Please check back on this list, as it will be added to when new books from her personal library come to light. It will also be amended when books are purchased for the Personal Libraries Library.

This list was compiled with the help of The Maria Mitchell Association of Nantucket; most notably by the incredibly helpful curator of Special Collections at the Association, Jascin Finger. Other books were gleaned by reading Maria Mitchell and the Sexing of Science by Renee Bergland (Beacon Press, Boston) and Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals compiled by Phebe Mitchell Kendall (BiblioBazaar).