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The Cats of Alice Stone Blackwell

The Blackwell Family Papers are a collection of letters and diaries. They are kept in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. These papers record how Alice Stone Blackwell wrote about cats as pets that also guarded family documents. On 22 February 1872, the 14-year-old Blackwell wrote in her diary. She had composed a poem for her pet cat,…

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