Album : 1859-1903 (bulk 1862-1880).
Material type:
Mixed materialsLanguage: English, German, French Description: 1 v. (126 p.) ; 30 cmAccession Number: (PPRF)1296/16Some pages and portions of pages cut or torn out; portions of some entries, especially signatures, erased or lined through.\\Comments have been written on some other entries, apparently by Boyd.Source of Acquisition: Pennypacker, Samuel W.Biographical Data: Confederate spy.\\Born Martinsburg, Va.\\Imprisoned for spying July-Aug. 1862 and Aug.-Dec. 1863.\\She went to England in 1864 and there married Sam Wilde Hardinge, one of the Union officers who had guarded her. After his death several years later she returned to the U.S.\\In 1865 she published a sensational memoir, "Belle Boyd in camp and prison". It appears that she did make several appearances in dramatic productions and gave some public lectures, but the woman who acted and lectured for many years as Belle Boyd was often denounced as an impostor.Language Note: A few entries in German and French.Subject(s): - Boyd, Belle, 1844-1900
- Hardinge, Sam Wilde, d. 1866?
- Hammond, John S., fl. 1869-1880
- Starr, Belle, 1848-1889
- Secret service -- Confederate States of America
- Women spies -- Southern States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Secret service
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Female
- Theater -- United States
- Lectures and lecturing -- United States
- Impostors and imposture -- United States
- Spies
| Item type | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manuscript/archives | Rosenbach Museum and Library | Americana, Manuscripts | AMs 1296/16 | Available | 2507 |
Confederate spy.\\Born Martinsburg, Va.\\Imprisoned for spying July-Aug. 1862 and Aug.-Dec. 1863.\\She went to England in 1864 and there married Sam Wilde Hardinge, one of the Union officers who had guarded her. After his death several years later she returned to the U.S.\\In 1865 she published a sensational memoir, "Belle Boyd in camp and prison". It appears that she did make several appearances in dramatic productions and gave some public lectures, but the woman who acted and lectured for many years as Belle Boyd was often denounced as an impostor.
Begun as an autograph album before the war, but most entries are by both Union and Confederate soldiers who visited and guarded Boyd.\\Includes many newspaper clippings about her, mainly collected by herself, but a few added later by S.W. Pennypacker.\\Most concern her activities and those of the alleged impostor on the theater and lecture circuits.\\At least one of the clippings confuses details of her life with those of the outlaw Belle Starr. There are also some letters by and clippings about Hardinge and her second husband, John S. Hammond.
A few entries in German and French.
Some pages and portions of pages cut or torn out; portions of some entries, especially signatures, erased or lined through.\\Comments have been written on some other entries, apparently by Boyd.
Pennypacker, Samuel W.