Co-founded by Eunice Hale (Waite) Cobb, the mother of Darius and Cyrus Cobb, noted Boston artists, the Ladies Physiological Institute, was the first women's club in America and promoted health and fitness.

History

The historical correspondence created by the Ladies Physiological Institute were donated to the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliff College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...

 in November, 1976.

This collection, which includes documentation from 1848-1966, was processed under a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

The Arthur

Arthur (newspaper)

Arthur is a Canadian student newspaper with a circulation of 3000 in Peterborough, Ontario. It is the official paper of the Trent University student body. Arthur is funded through a non-refundable levy from every full-time student at the university...

 and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library

Schlesinger Library

The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America is a research library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. According to Nancy F...

has written this introduction to the collection: