# Mitchell corpus inventory Working ingest map for season one. **Page numbers are Kendall 1896** (Lee & Shepard; vi + 293; HathiTrust section starts). Chapter titles follow Gutenberg #10202. Albers 2001 is the preferred *text* where it overlaps; Kendall is the free spine. Status key: `ready` = PD text can be chunked now; `license` = need MMA/Vassar/Albers; `place` = bind to an island anchor. --- ## 1. Kendall 1896 — chapter / page / use HathiTrust section starts (mdp.39015033356646): ch.1 p.1 · ch.2 p.19 · ch.3 p.39 · ch.4 p.56 · ch.5 p.85 · ch.6 p.112 · ch.7 p.137 · ch.8 p.172 · ch.9 p.197 · ch.10 p.220 · ch.11 p.255. Gutenberg splits some of that run into ch.11–13 + appendix; use titles below and reconcile on ingest. | Ch | Kendall pages (approx.) | Dates in heading | Contents | RAG tags | Status | |---|---|---|---|---|---| | I | 1–18 | 1818–1846; diary 1854, 1855 | Parents, Quaker house, 1831 eclipse (age 12½), teaching, **Atheneum librarian**, piano, housework | `nantucket` `atheneum` `eclipse-1831` `childhood` | ready / **place** | | II | 19–38 | 1847–55; diary 1853–55 | **Sweeping / comet 1 Oct 1847**, Danish medal, Bond & Everett letters, AAAS, Dix, 1854 comet math, Cape Cod | `comet-1847` `medal` `computation` | ready / **place** (Vestal roof) | | III | 39–55 | mid-1850s | Transit wires, Deacon Greele, Smithsonian, Emerson, hard winter | `instruments` `winter` | ready | | IV | 56–84 | mid-1850s | Southern tour: St. Louis academy, Mississippi, **slave market / “peculiar institution”**, Charleston, Mrs. Polk, Mammoth Cave | `travel-south` `slavery-observed` | ready — do not drop this chapter | | V | 85–111 | 1857 | First Europe: Liverpool, Taylor, Martineau, Lassell, **Hawthorne (5-minute call)**, Greenwich, Airy, Smyth, Hartwell | `europe-1857` `observatories` | ready | | VI | 112–136 | 1857 | Cambridge (Whewell, Adams, Challis, Sedgwick), lakes, Herschels, Edinburgh & Glasgow observatories | `europe-1857` `cambridge` | ready | | VII | 137–171 | 1857–58 | Neptune / Adams vs Leverrier, Bond at Cambridge Mass., Paris observatory, Rome, Hosmer, Secchi, Antonelli | `neptune` `rome` `leverrier` | ready | | VIII | 172–196 | 1858–65 | Somerville, Humboldt, **mother’s death**, move to Lynn, Peabody gift telescope, star colors | `lynn` `grief` `gift-telescope` | ready | | IX | 197–219 | 1865–85 | **Vassar**: faculty, students, “imagination in science,” “I am but a woman,” dome parties, 1881 comet, honor girls, Matthew Arnold | `vassar` `teaching` `quote-authority` | ready | | X | 220–238 | 1873 | Russia / Pulkovo, Struve, London Cobbe, Glasgow College for Girls | `europe-1873` `russia` | ready | | XI | (Gutenberg; science papers) | 1874–78 | Science papers, **Denver eclipse 1878**, star colors | `eclipse-1878` `papers` | ready | | XII | | | Religion, sermons, Concord School, Emerson, Peabody, Whittier, cooking-school anecdotes | `religion` `unitarian` `concord` | ready | | XIII | –293 | 1880s | Letters, suffrage, Women’s Congress Syracuse, degrees, health, resigns Vassar, death 28 Jun 1889 Lynn; buried Prospect Hill | `suffrage` `death` `prospect-hill` | ready / **place** (grave AR only with label) | | App. | end matter | 1847–48 | Everett note + **Danish medal correspondence** | `medal` `primary-letters` | ready | Ingest rule: chunk by dated diary block, not by Kendall’s narrative glue. Tag Kendall’s connective tissue as `editor-kendall` so the model does not speak Phebe’s sentences as Maria. --- ## 2. Albers 2001 — chapter list (preferred text) xiii + 370 pp. College Avenue Press. License. 1. Early years on Nantucket 2. Maria’s comet 3. Nantucket diaries 4. Travels in America 5. England and Scotland 6. France and Italy 7. From Nantucket to Vassar 8. Vassar College, 1865–1873 9. European travels, 1873 10. Vassar College, 1873–1880 11. Vassar College, 1880–1888 12. The final years Bib. pp. 357–361. Use Albers to fill Kendall’s ellipses and to date diary lines Kendall floated without year. --- ## 3. Unpublished / institutional (license) | Collection | Shelf | What to pull first | Status | |---|---|---|---| | MMA Archives, 2 Vestal | Series I boxes 1–14 (corr., notes, lectures, scrapbooks); Series II published works | Nantucket years, comet night working notes, family letters, lectures she actually gave | license — Finger appointment ≥1 month | | Vassar Mitchell Papers | 31 notebooks; Nautical Almanac 1853; dept. reports 1871–86; letters to Lossing, Morse, Raymond, Swan, Taylor | Teaching voice; pay fight; observation method she can *explain* without dumping raw columns into RAG | license | | NHA MS5 | 12 digitized social letters, 1859–83 + William Mitchell journal extract | Island return, “Welcome Home” poem, local singularity | ready (NHA digital) + reproduction for images | | NHA MS120 / 259 / 296 | MMA institutional; Henry Mitchell; notes on Maria | Context, not her mouth | B only | Do not embed glass-plate reductions or Nautical Almanac tables as prose. Point the object lesson at the physical Clark and a single sample sheet. --- ## 4. Place-binding (Corpus A → island anchor) | Anchor | Lat/long to confirm on site | Kendall / Albers hook | AR/VR mode | |---|---|---|---| | Mitchell House, 1 Vestal | Vestal at Milk | Ch. I home life | Billboard + house tour kiosk | | Roof / yard walk | Same parcel | Ch. II comet; Albers “ladder leading to rooftop walk” | Hero monologue / Quest | | Vestal Street Observatory / Astronomical Study | 3 Vestal | Successor space — she did not work in the 1908 dome. Label it. Clark on display (2025). | Object lesson | | Loines Observatory | 59 Milk St Ext | Living MMA night program — not her building | Optional “look up” AR, modern clerk | | Atheneum, 1 India | Downtown | Ch. I librarian appointment | Dated day-job scene | | Pacific National Bank roof (father’s observing) | Main St | Instruments in ch. I–II | Thin AR | | Prospect Hill Cemetery | Off Milk / Vestal axis | Ch. XIII burial | Quiet plaque, no talking grave | | Atheneum Great Hall | India St | Adjacent 1841 Douglass night — **not her monologue** | Scene credit only | --- ## 5. Quote pack to lock early (verify page on ingest) Pull and cite, do not paraphrase into the system prompt as if they were slogans: - “Until women throw off reverence for authority they will not develop…” (published advocacy; confirm edition page). - “We especially need imagination in science.” (diary 1878 / Vassar exhibit). - “I am but a woman.” (Kendall ch. IX). - 1831 eclipse: “I counted seconds for father… I was twelve and a half years old.” (later echo 1885). - Southern-tour pages on the slave market (ch. IV) — required, not optional color. --- ## 6. Question-bank seeds (cite or refuse) | Visitor ask | Hit | Refuse if | |---|---|---| | How did you find the comet? | Ch. II + medal appendix | — | | Are there people on other worlds? | Period natural theology / her creed notes | Modern exoplanet catalog | | What do you think of NASA / Hubble? | Cutoff 1889 | Always refuse as lived opinion | | What did Nantucket Quaker meeting require of girls? | Ch. I + Friends discipline as C | Invented feminist anachronism | | What did you see in the South? | Ch. IV | Softening | | What should girls study? | Ch. IX address to students | Career-counseling 2026 | | Did you know Frederick Douglass spoke here? | Beat 3 / clerk | First-person 1841 play-by-play she did not write | Target: 400 rows before compile. Each row: question · corpus ID · Kendall/Albers page · refuse Y/N. --- ## 7. Ingest order (two weeks) 1. Gutenberg Kendall → clean text, strip Phebe glue, chunk by date. 2. Appendix medal letters as standalone A. 3. NHA MS5 letters. 4. Albers overlap pass under license. 5. MMA appointment for anything still thin on 1847 night and Atheneum years. 6. Vassar notebooks as *method cards*, not raw RAG. 7. Historian red-line of the 400 questions. Done when every public sentence can point at a row in this inventory.