"Family"
Manuscript Summaries
Manuscript Summaries
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, b. 1894.
- Title: Papers, 1877-1980, 1913-1980 (bulk)
Physical Details: 8 cubic ft.
Notes: Bechtel (1894-1985) was head of the juvenile book department at Macmillan from 1919-1934, assistant editor and director for THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE, and lecturer and author on children's literature. She graduated from Vassar College in 1915.
Summary: Papers primarily concern her work in literature, publishing, and editing, especially for children, and include correspondence, manuscripts, illustrations, biographical information, and published articles and reviews from or pertaining to authors, illustrators, and publishers, 1922-1978, including Rachel Lyman Field, Dorothy Pulis Lathrop, Marianne Moore, Helen Sewell, Wallace Stevens, Katharine Sergeant Angell White, Carroll Moore, Frances Clarke Sayers, Harry Behn, Padraic Colum, Anne Parrish, and Sara Teasdale. Extensive correspondence from Elizabeth Coatsworth, Vassar classmate and children's author, concerning travel, writing, mutual friends, the onset of World War II, volunteer war work, and family news, 1913-1980; biographical articles on Coatsworth, 1936-1978; and a Coatsworth family photograph album, 1898-1979. Letters from editors and board members at the Horn Book Company, publishers of THE HORN BOOK MAGAZINE and other children's literature, concerning Bechtel's work, editorial policy, conflicts between editors and the board, and publishing plans, with some personal and family news, 1934-1974. Correspondents include Bertha E. Mahony (Miller), Jennie D. Linquist, and Ruth Hill Viguers. Also, scrapbooks of Bechtel's published reviews and articles.
Other items include typed excerpts from the diary of her father Charles F. Seaman, 1877-1950; family photographs, clippings, announcements, and postcards; and Bechtel's collection of prints and photographs including works by Boris Artzybasheff, Pamela Bianco, Fritz Eichenberg, Dorothy Lathrop, Howard Pyle, Lynd Ward, and Stanley Wengenroth.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Artzybasheff, Boris, 1899-
Bianco, Pamela, 1906-
Eichenberg, Fritz, 1901-
Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Pyle, Howard, 1853-1911.
Ward, Lynd, 1905-
Wengenroth, Stanley.
Subjects:
Field, Rachel, 1894-1942.
Lathrop, Dorothy Pulis, 1891-
Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972.
Sewell, Helen, 1896-
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955.
White, Katharine Sergeant Angell.
Moore, Carroll.
Sayers, Frances Clarke, 1897-
Behn, Harry.
Colum, Padraic, 1881-1972.
Parrish, Anne, 1888-1957.
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane, 1893-
Miller, Bertha E. Mahony.
Linquist, Jennie D.
Viguers, Ruth Hill.
Seaman, Charles F.
Macmillan Company.
Horn Book, Inc.
Horn book magazine.
Family--New York (State)
Authors.
Publishers and publishing.
Children's literature--Women authors.
World War, 1939-1945--War work.
Literature publishing.
Editors.
Coatsworth family.
Genre Or Form:
Scrapbooks.
Photoprints.
Postcards.
Prints.
Blanchard, Abbie S.
- Title: Diary, 1879.
Physical Details: 1 v.
Notes: Daughter of Christopher C. and Sally Blanchard of South Weymouth, Mass.
Summary: Diary kept while attending Dean Academy in Franklin, Mass., along with her sister Clara discussing her dissatisfaction with school rules, etiquette lectures, social life with other students, visits home, dancing lesson, and young men, January-February 1879.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Blanchard, Clara.
Blanchard, Christopher C.
Blanchard, Sally.
Dean Academy (Franklin, Mass.)
Family--Massachusetts--South Weymouth.
Women--Diaries.
Women--Education.
High school students--Massachusetts--Franklin.
Franklin (Mass.)--Social life and customs--1865-1918.
South Weymouth (Mass.)--Social life and
customs--1865-1918.
Blanchard family.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.
Hill, William Bancroft, 1857-1945.
- Title: Papers, 1884-1942.
Physical Details: ca. .5 cubic ft.
Notes: Professor of religion at Vassar College.
Summary: Correspondence, 1884-1942, manuscript poems by Hill and poems in honor of William Bancroft and Elise Hill; booklet from the 50th anniversary of the Harvard Class of 1879, 1929; scrapbook from Hill's 85th birthday, 1942; and biographical information and clippings on Hill and his family.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Hill, Elise.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Harvard University. Class of 1879.
Religion--Study and teaching.
Family--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Scrapbooks.
College teachers.
Hill family.
Genre Or Form:
Poems.
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Mason, Ruth Fitch, 1890-1974.
- Title: Papers, 1908-1962.
Physical Details: 2 cubic ft.
Notes: Writer, literary agent. Vassar College Class of 1912.
Summary: Professional correspondence includes letters to Ruth Fitch Mason from Sherwood Anderson, John Dos Passos, Havelock Ellis, Robert Frost, Ellen Glasgow, Langston Hughes, Sinclair Lewis, Amy Lowell, Eugene O'Neill, Alice Paul, Carl Sandburg, Sara Teasdale, Edmund Wilson, and other literary figures; and correspondence from her association with the publishing firms of Curtis Brown Ltd. and McKeogh and Boyd, 1937-1944. Family letters, 1908-1962, include her correspondence with Eliot Grant Fitch, her first husband Walter S. Bartlett, her sons Eliot F. and Scott Bartlett, her mother Eliza Eliot Fitch, and her third husband Gregory Mason. Some of her letters to her mother were written while attending Vassar College, 1908-1909; and letters of Elizabeth Grace Boyd Phillipson to Eliot Fitch Bartlett, 1936-1940. Other items include manuscripts of her stories and poetry; manuscripts by her second husband Thomas Boyd; manuscript of DANBURY CURVE (1962) by Ruth Fitch Mason and Gregory Mason; photographs, postcards, and biographical information; and Eliot F. Bartlett's correspondence and notes regarding these papers.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors: Mason, Gregory, 1889-
Subjects:
Anderson, Sherwood, 1876-1941.
Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.
Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.
Frost, Robert, 1874-1963.
Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson, 1873-1945.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967.
Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951.
O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953.
Paul, Alice, 1885-1977.
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967.
Teasdale, Sara, 1884-1933.
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Fitch, Eliot Grant.
Bartlett, Walter S.
Bartlett, Scott.
Phillipson, Elizabeth Grace Boyd.
Bartlett, Eliot Fitch.
Fitch, Eliza Eliot.
Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935.
Vassar College--Students.
Curtis Brown, Ltd.
McKeogh & Boyd (New York, N.Y.)
American literature.
Literature--Women authors.
Authors.
Family--New York (State)
Literature publishing.
Women college graduates.
Literary agents.
Women authors, American.
Mason family.
Fitch family.
Bartlett family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Poems.
Postcards.
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Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927.
- Title: Papers, 1818-1976, 1887-1927 (bulk)
Physical Details: 30 cubic ft.
Notes: College teacher, historian, pacifist, suffragist. Salmon taught at Vassar College from 1887 to 1927.
Summary: Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, publications, clippings, reminiscences, genealogy, and photographs concerning the Vassar College History Dept., teaching history, woman's suffrage movement, the University of Michigan, Falley Seminary, Fulton, N.Y., domestic science, historical research methods, and other personal and profession issues. Correspondents include Caroline E. Page Salmon, Pomeroy Lyman Salmon, George Salmon, Lucy Ella Maynard Sloss, and other family members, 1859-1926; Henry Noble MacCracken, James Monroe Taylor, Louise Fargo Brown, Eloise Ellery, C. Mildred Thompson, and other Vassar associates, 1887-1927; Edith Rickert, Amelia MacDonald Cutler, Helena Grow Rottschaefer, and other Vassar students, 1890-1927; James Burrell Angell, Katharine Lee Bates, George Lincoln Burr, Alice Freeman Palmer, M. Carey Thomas, Lelia Y. Burt, H.V. Clulow, Rachel Larrabee, Gertrude H. Mason, and other educational and political contemporaries, 1870-1927; Adelaide Underhill, Vassar College Librarian with whom Salmon shared a house, 1894-1927, and condolence letters to Underhill on Salmon's death, 1927-1931; and round-robin letters from student social groups at the University of Michigan, "Q. Ceekers," and at Bryn Mawr, "The Learned Six," 1874-1893.
There are also minutes, reports, notes, pamphlets, clippings, curriculum materials, and some correspondence relating to her Vassar College duties, teaching history, professional organizations such as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, American Association of University Women, and the American Historical Association, home economics and domestic science, and women's rights and suffrage, 1863-1926. Papers of her mother, Maria Clara Maynard Salmon, include class notes, ca. 1834, diaries and account books, 1840-1863, and correspondence with Miranda Smith Belden, George Salmon, James B. Maynard, Frederick W. Lyman, and Lucy Piper Maynard, 1831-1861.
Finding Aids:
Box list.
Folder list.
Subjects:
Salmon, Maria Clara Maynard.
Salmon, Caroline E. Page.
Salmon, Pomeroy Lyman.
Salmon, George.
Sloss, Lucy Ella Maynard.
MacCracken, H.N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880.
Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916.
Brown, Louise Fargo.
Ellery, Eloise, 1874-1958.
Thompson, C. Mildred (Clara Mildred), 1881-
Rickert, Edith, 1871-1938.
Cutler, Amelia MacDonald, 1882-1947.
Rottschaefer, Helena Grow.
Angell, James Burrell, 1829-1916.
Bates, Katharine Lee, 1859-1929.
Burr, George Lincoln, 1857-1938.
Palmer, Alice Freeman, 1855-1902.
Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935.
Burt, Lelia Y.
Clulow, H. V.
Larrabee, Rachel.
Mason, Gertrude H.
Underhill, Adelaide, 1860-
Belden, Miranda Smith.
Maynard, James B.
Lyman, Frederick W.
Maynard, Lucy Piper.
Vassar College. History Dept.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Students.
Vassar College--Alumnae.
University of Michigan--Students.
University of Michigan. Q. Ceekers.
Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
Bryn Mawr College--Students.
Bryn Mawr College. Learned Six.
American Association of University Women.
American Historical Association.
Falley Seminary (Fulton, N.Y.)
Family--New York (State) History--Study and teaching.
Women--Suffrage.
Home economics.
History--Research.
Education.
Women's rights.
Women--Diaries.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women's colleges--Pennsylvania--Bryn Mawr.
Women and peace.
Women--Societies and clubs.
Women--Social conditions.
Feminism.
New York (State)--Genealogy.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--Politics and government--20th century.
Feminists.
Pacifists.
Women college teachers.
Salmon family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Diaries.
Account books.
Genealogies.
Salmon, Lucy Maynard, 1853-1927, collector.
- Title: Historical materials, 1763-1898.
Physical Details: 2 cubic ft.
Summary: A collection of letters, diaries, account books, land grants, deeds, wills, and other historical materials originally established by the History Dept. at Vassar College. Includes the Bullard Papers containing letters, charter, petition, bills, receipts, and maps (Dedham, Mass.) relating to the Charles River Meadows Corporation in Massachusetts, 1763-1876; letters of Charles Hawley, 1857-1866, concerning the life of a student at Hamilton College and of a young lawyer in upper New York State; journal of Francis E. Pyle concerning the life of a small shopkeeper in a Pennsylvania village, 1860-1861; typescript copy of the account book of the Rowley family; letters, accounts, and other records of the Williams family of Ithaca, N.Y., 1838-1898; photocopies of letters of Samuel Sawyer, a lawyer of Missouri, 1836-1846; letters of William Galbreath, 1861-1865; and public records of Elizabeth, N.J., 1774-1778.
Other Authors: Vassar College. History Dept.
Subjects:
Hawley, Charles.
Pyle, Francis E.
Sawyer, Samuel.
Galbreath, William.
Hamilton College (Clinton, N.Y.)--Students.
Charles River Meadows Corporation (Dedham, Mass.)
Real property--Massachusetts--Dedham.
Real property--New York (State)
Family--New York (State)--Ithaca.
Lawyers--New York (State)
Lawyers--Missouri.
Stores, Retail--Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth (N.J.)--Politics and government--18th century.
Dedham (Mass.)--Maps.
Ithaca (N.Y.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Rowley family.
Williams family.
Genre Or Form:
Diaries.
Account books.
Land grants.
Maps.
Stanley-Brown, Margaret, 1895-1958.
- Title: Papers, [ca. 1882]-1958.
Physical Details: 1 cubic ft.
Notes: Surgeon. Vassar College Class of 1919.
Summary: Personal letters from Stanley-Brown to her parents, her brother Rudolph, and her sister Ruth Feis, 1902-1958, concerning travel arrangements and sights seen, camping trip in Wyoming in 1922, her hospital and teaching duties, family visits, and other personal news; other family letters, including Rudolph's childhood letters to his parents; and a poem by Stanley-Brown to her mother about her non-traditional career, 1926.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Stanley-Brown, R. (Rudolph), 1889-1944.
Feis, Ruth Stanley-Brown.
Family--New York (State)
Camping--Wyoming.
Women in the professions.
Women travelers.
Medicine--Study and teaching.
Hospitals.
Women in medicine.
Wyoming--Description and travel.
Women surgeons.
Stanley-Brown family.
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902.
- Title: Papers, 1796-1921.
Physical Details: ca. 2 cubic ft.
Notes: Abolitionist, women's rights advocate.
Summary: Papers include correspondence with Susan B. Anthony, Paulina Wright Davis, Elizabeth Smith Miller, Gerrit Smith, and others relating to family matters, her children, the woman's movement, her lectures and travels, publication of her books and articles, women and religion, abolition, temperance, and other social causes, 1839-1902; phrenological report by L.N. Fowler on the character of Stanton, 1853; and clippings, articles, transcripts of her speeches, an autobiographical sketch, and photographs. Other items include correspondence by Margaret Stanton Lawrence and others on the women's movement, other social causes, and Stanton's career, 1796-1921; and manuscripts and typescripts by Margaret Stanton Lawrence about Elizabeth Cady Stanton's life and career.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Lawrence, Margaret Stanton.
Fowler, L.N. (Lorenzo Niles), 1811-1896.
Subjects:
Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
Davis, Paulina W. (Paulina Wright), 1813-1876.
Miller, Elizabeth Smith, 1822-1911.
Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874.
Family--New York (State)
Women's rights.
Slavery--Anti-slavery movements.
Women and religion.
Temperance.
Women--Social conditions.
Feminist literature--Women authors.
Women travelers.
Phrenology.
Abolitionists.
Feminists.
Women authors, American.
Women social reformers.
Stanton family.
Genre Or Form:
Autographs.
Photoprints.
Autobiographies.
Vassar family.
- Title: Papers, 1804-1891.
Physical Details: 2 cubic ft.
Summary: Deeds, mortgages, bonds, insurance papers, agreements, wills, complaints, letters, accounts, cancelled checks, leases, and other items concerning estate and business matters of George Booth, James Booth, Charles Vassar, James Vassar, John Guy Vassar, and Matthew Vassar. Other papers relating to Matthew Vassar include an autobiographical sketch; correspondence, addresses, deeds, mortgages, and accounts from his connection with the Baptist Church in Poughkeepsie, 1843-1844; and letters received concerning business affairs and his plan to establish a college for women.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Booth, George, ca. 1768-1833.
Booth, James.
Vassar, Charles.
Vassar, James.
Vassar, John Guy, 1811-1888.
Vassar, Matthew, 1792-1868.
Baptists--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women's colleges--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Family--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Decedents' estates--New York (State)--Dutchess County.
Real property--New York (State)--Dutchess County.
Dutchess County (N.Y.)--Commerce.
Poughkeepsie (N.Y.)--Religious life and customs.
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Webster, Jean, 1876-1916, collector.
- Title: McKinney family papers, 1720-1975, 1863-1941 (bulk)
Physical Details: ca. 4 cubic ft.
Notes: Webster, grandniece of Mark Twain, was the author of DADDY LONG LEGS. She graduated from Vassar in 1901 and married Glenn Ford McKinney in 1915.
Summary: Papers primarily concern John Luke McKinney (1842-1937), his wife Ida D. Ford McKinney (1847-1894), and their children Glenn Ford McKinney (1869-1934) and Ethelyn (Ida) McKinney (1871-1964) and include family and business correspondence, 1863-1933; Ida Ford McKinney's journal for 1865, part of which concerns her trip as a cook on a lumber raft on the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers; journal entries by John Luke McKinney relating the time that Glenn was lost during a hunting trip in Colorado, 1895; diaries and account books of Ethelyn, 1885-1907; clippings, programs, obituaries, family histories, and photographs, 1863-1975. Included in papers of Ethelyn are verses, essays, programs, and letters of Lena M. Weinstein. Other papers include letters, wills, deeds, biographies, obituaries, and photographs, 1720-1964, concerning John McKinney, James and Lydia McKinney, John C. Ford (1820-1896), and Jerusha Jane Dalrymple Ford (1827-1909).
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors: McKinney, Jean Webster, 1876-1916.
Subjects:
McKinney, Glenn Ford, 1869-1934.
McKinney, John Luke, 1842-1937.
McKinney, Ida D. Ford, 1847-1894.
McKinney, Ethelyn, 1871-1964.
McKinney, John.
McKinney, James.
McKinney, Lydia.
Ford, John C., 1820-1896.
Ford, Jerusha Jane Dalrymple, 1827-1909.
Weinstein, Lena M.
Women cooks.
Women--Diaries.
Hunting--Colorado.
Timber--Rafting.
Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.)--Description and travel.
Ohio River--Description and travel.
McKinney family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Diaries.
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Webster, Jean, 1876-1916, collector.
- Title: Samuel L. Clemens papers, 1807-1975, 1853-1909 (bulk)
Physical Details: 12 linear ft.
Notes: Webster was a grandniece of Mark Twain.
Summary: Papers of Samuel L. Clemens include manuscripts of his stories written or signed by Clemens and one notebook, 1855-1868; his letters and telegrams to family members Orion Clemens, Pamela C. Moffett, Charles L. Webster, Jane L. Clemens, and others, 1853-1909, concerning his early experiences in Philadelphia, travelling, business affairs, mining in the American West, his writing and publishing affairs, trips to Hawaii in 1866 and Europe in 1867, political figures, his typesetting business, and family affairs; letters received, including several from William Dean Howells, 1874-1909, and later letters about Mark Twain history and materials, 1941-1975; and letters to Charles L. Webster from Clemens and illustrator E.W. Kemble about his illustrations for HUCKLEBERRY FINN and original and proof copies of Kemble's illustrations, 1884.
Other items include original manuscript memoirs on the Civil War by Gen. U.S. Grant, letters to Charles L. Webster from Grant, his photographs of Grant, Civil War scenes, and Grant's funeral, 1863-1885; manuscripts, diary entries, letters, clippings, and photographs of Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, Clemens' secretary, concerning the person and career of Samuel L. Clemens, 1903-1939, and notes from a conversation with Lyon by Samuel and Doris Webster, 1950-1953; letters, clippings, memoranda, legal papers, certificates, deeds, and contracts of Samuel L. Clemens' family members, 1807 and 1834-1944, including his parents John Marshall and Jane Lampton Clemens, his brothers Orion Clemens, Henry Clemens, his daughters Clara and Jean, and his sister Pamela Clemens Moffett, her husband William Anderson Moffett, their son Samuel E. Moffett, and their daughter Annie Moffett and her husband Charles L. Webster; and photographs of Samuel L. Clemens, his family, and related Websters, Moffetts, Fords, Dalrimples, and McKinneys, ca. 1856-1955.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Other Authors:
Webster, Doris.
Webster, Samuel.
McKinney, Jean Webster, 1876-1916.
Subjects:
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910.
Clemens, Orion, 1825-1897.
Webster, Charles L., 1851-1891.
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920.
Kemble, E. W. (Edward Windsor) 1861-1933.
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885.
Lyon, Isabel Van Kleek, 1868-1958.
Clemens, John Marshall, 1798-1847.
Clemens, Jane Lampton, 1803-1890.
Clemens, Henry, 1838-1858.
Clemens, Clara.
Clemens, Jean, 1880-1909.
Moffett, Pamela Clemens, 1827-1904.
Moffett, William Anderson.
Moffett, Samuel E.
Webster, Annie Moffett.
Family--New York (State)
Real property.
American literature.
Publishers and publishing.
Authors.
Mines and mineral resources--West (U.S.)
Illustrated books, Children's.
Funeral service.
Women--Diaries.
Type-setting.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
Hawaii--Description and travel.
Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description.
Europe--Description and travel.
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910.
Moffett, Annie.
Clemens family.
Moffett family.
Webster family.
Ford family.
Dalrimple family.
McKinney family.
Genre Or Form:
Photoprints.
Autographs.
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Wheeler, Jessie F., 1858-1946.
- Title: Papers, 1852-1929.
Physical Details: .5 cubic ft.
Notes: Vassar College Class of 1882.
Summary: These papers primarily concern her family and include two scrapbooks of genealogical material; logbooks, 1925-1929; album and diploma of her mother Agnes Gould Wheeler from Galway Ladies Seminary, 1852-1854; and daguerreotypes of her parents Charles and Agnes Wheeler. Other items include programs from Vassar College events, 1878-1879.- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Wheeler, Agnes Gould.
Wheeler, Charles.
Galway Ladies Seminary.
Vassar College--Students.
Women college students--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Wheeler family.
Genre Or Form:
Genealogies.
Daguerreotypes.
Scrapbooks.
- Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
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Whitney, Marian Parker, 1861-1946.
- Title: Papers, 1842-1945, 1871-1945 (bulk)
Physical Details: 6 cubic ft.
Notes: Whitney taught German at Vassar beginning in 1905 and was active in the American Association of University Professors, National Council of Women, and International Council of Women.
Summary: Family correspondence includes letters received by her father William Dwight Whitney, 1842-1850; her correspondence with her parents, 1872-1891; and letters received from other family members, 1872-1900. Personal correspondence, 1871-1905, from Jennie and Fannie Bailey, Amanda Brewster, Honor Brooke, Beatrice Chamberlain, Eva Channing, Elizabeth Whitney Putnam, Marie Souvestre, Bessie M. Townsend, and Edith Woolsey concerning intellectual pursuits, travels, Brooke's work with a working girls' club in London (1889), family affairs, and other personal news. Papers from her Vassar position include minutes, reports, materials from her German and drama courses, correspondence with Presidents Taylor and MacCracken, and letters from students. Correspondence, programs, reports, bills, and other items from her work with the American Association of University Professors, the International Council of Women, the National Council of Women, Connecticut Association of Working Girls' Clubs, and other women's groups, 1919-1934. Scrapbooks, class notebooks, and several manuscripts, 1871-1891 and undated; diaries from 1873 to 1945; and correspondence and other materials from trips to Europe, England, and Japan, 1886-1920.
Notes: English, French, German.
Finding Aids: Finding aid available.
Subjects:
Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894.
Bailey, Fannie.
Bailey, Jennie.
Brewster, Amanda.
Brooke, Honor.
Chamberlain, Beatrice.
Channing, Eva.
Putnam, Elizabeth Whitney.
Souvestre, Marie.
Townsend, Bessie M.
Woolsey, Edith.
Taylor, James Monroe, 1848-1916.
MacCracken, H. N. (Henry Noble), b. 1880.
American Association of University Professors.
International Council of Women.
National Council of Women of the United States.
Connecticut Association of Working Girls' Clubs.
Vassar College--Faculty.
Vassar College--Students.
Family--New York (State)--Poughkeepsie.
Women--Societies and clubs.
Women--England--London--Societies and clubs.
Women--Employment.
German language--Study and teaching.
Drama--Study and teaching.
Women--Diaries.
Europe--Description and travel.
England--Description and travel.
Japan--Description and travel.
Women college teachers.
Whitney family.
Genre Or Form:
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.