Transcribing

In 2003, Bonnie Hurd Smith initiated a multi-year project to transcribe, index, and publish Judith Sargent Murray's letter books—twenty volumes in all. As of June 2009, she has published two letter books in their entirety and two theme-based collections of the letters. Her transcriptions of letters from all of the letter books appear in her biographical introductions of Judith Sargent Murray. Bonnie's transcriptions have also appeared in works by David McCullough, Cokie Roberts, Susan Branson, Carol Berkin, and Joseph Garland, and they have been used by Historic New England to help interpret two of their properties, the Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and the Sayward-Wheeler House in York, Maine.

Publishing

Letter Book 3 is now available!

You may also purchase Letter Book 10, and two theme-based collections of Judith Sargent Murray's letters. Bonnie Hurd Smith has also reissued Judith's early essays and her Universalist catechism.

All of these titles have been published under the umbrella of Bonnie Hurd Smith's company, Hurd Smith Communications.

Speaking, collaborating, providing research assistance

Please contact Bonnie if you would like her to give an illustrated talk on Judith Sargent Murray for your organization, to lead a Unitarian Universalist service, or deliver a sermon.

Read descriptions of Bonnie's talks.

Hear Bonnie Smith's talk on Judith Sargent Murray on You Tube.