Death and Legacy
Despite Beard’s passion for the archives project and extensive work in acquiring the personal papers of women throughout the world from all times in history, she, along with her husband destroyed nearly all of their papers and manuscripts before their deaths and requested of their children in their will that they not publish any of their letters, while never giving any explanation.
She was interred in Hartsdale in Westchester County in New York.
Read more about this topic: Mary Ritter Beard
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