Maxine Tull Boatner papers

Collection

Identifier: WLM-1956-001

Abstract

The Maxine Tull Boatner papers comprises two folders of Boatner's correspondence with Connecticut-appointed Foreign Service workers (for a proposed series of articles Boatner was to write for the Hartford Times); one Connecticut Circle magazine issue featuring a piece by Boatner, "Connecticut Representatives in Our Foreign Service"; and a branch approval certificate for the National League of American Pen Women, of which Boatner was the Greater Hartford Branch president.

Dates

Creation: 1936-1954

Creator

Boatner, Maxine Tull (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.

Conditions Governing Use

Digital surrogates may be provided to researchers, in accordance with the duplication policy of the Watkinson Library.

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Biographical / Historical

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Maxine Tull Boatner was born in Kenwood, Louisiana on February 23, 1903. She grew up in Jackson, Mississippi, where she earned a B.A. at Millsaps College in 1924. She earned a master's degree from Gallaudet College in 1926, and by 1952 had earned master's and doctoral degrees at Yale. She worked as a teacher in schools for the deaf in Mississippi and in New York City. She was married to Dr. Edmund B. Boatner, head of the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, Connecticut.

Mrs. Boatner volunteered in the Trinity College Library (Hartford, Connecticut) in the mid- to late-1950s, serving as a member of the Council of the Library Associates. She appeared as a guest contributor in the Trinity Review, writing about the experiences of Trinity (then Washington College) student Edward Miner Gallaudet from research she conducted while reading Gallaudet's student diaries. She was a book reviewer for The Hartford Courant, and published several books of her own, most notably the 1959 biography of Edward Miner Gallaudet, Voice of the Deaf: A Biography of Edward Miner Gallaudet.

Maxine Tull Boatner died November 20, 1987 in Greenfield, Massachusetts.

Full Extent

.23 Cubic Feet (1/2 legal document box with 3 letter size folders and 1 legal size folder) ; Legal document box (15.5 x 2.5 x 10.25) equals .23 cubic feet (UNLV calculator)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Arranged in a single series in alphabetical order.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Presumably donated by Maxine Tull Boatner in August 1956.

Related Materials

T. H. Gallaudet and Edward Miner Gallaudet Papers, Library of Congress, Manuscript Division

Processing Information

The collection has been fairly thoroughly processed, to the folder level. Newsclippings have been isolated with acid free paper and rusty fasteners removed.