Anne “Nancy” Shippen Livingston Papers - Correspondence and Miscellany

Anne “Nancy” Home Shippen Livingston (1763-1841) lived in Philadelphia and wrote about her observations of everyday life, including women’s position in society. Her papers include diaries, correspondence, letterbooks, and miscellany. She writes about her romance with a French diplomat, her unhappy marriage to Henry Beekman Livingston, her separation from him and loss of custody of her child, as well as the Shippen family’s participation in the Philadelphia social circle that surrounded George Washington during his presidency. 

This grouping contains a variety of materials, including correspondence, letterbooks, and miscellany. Nancy Shippen Livingston’s correspondence is primarily with her parents, husband, daughter, uncles Arthur Lee and Richard Henry Lee, and members of the Livingston family.  Her letterbooks record her outgoing correspondence to family and friends. Miscellany includes a hymn book and other papers. Some materials relating to other family members, including those of her daughter, Margaret “Peggy” Beekman Livingston (1781-1864), are intermixed.