Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson

Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson (née Lawrence) (July 12, 1827 – November 15, 1912) was an American writer and historian.

Among the most noted were Daniel Webster, Harriet Martineau, Stephen Olin, Robert Rantoul, George Ashmun and W. B. Calhoun.

She founded a research table in the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts for young women.

She had been with the Sunflower State from its inception, and died in Lawrence, Kansas at the couple's "Oakridge" home in 1911.

[2] The couple's private papers, 1834–1911, are part of the holdings of the Kansas State Historical Society.