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This collection includes approximately 300 letters written predominantly between 1890-1905 by a diverse group of Helen Blackmer's friends, family, and colleagues. Frequent correspondents include her three brothers, William, Ezra, and Alfred, who all moved from New York to Arizona in the early 1890s. Many of the letters discuss life in the West, particularly in Montana and Arizona, with career opportunities, lifestyle, weather, food, and illness depicted in these states. Many of the letters also contain material objects such as pressed flowers, cloth, or hair. Most letters have their original mailing envelope attached. Other documents within the collection include telegrams, newspaper clippings, show flyers, medicine informational pamphlets, and photographs

Record book, 10 November 1879-21 November 1881, including by-laws and payment records for materials purchased by the members. These materials were limited to unbleached muslin, flannels, calico, gingham and ticking

Collection contains research notes and other material pertaining to books authored by William H. Pease and Jane H. Pease. Includes transcriptions of letters (1872-1892) of Caroline Carson; photocopies of letters, speeches, writings, and legal cases of James Louis Petigru; and research material pertaining to churches, charities, religious organizations in antebellum Charleston. In addition, six index card files contain notes on antebellum Charleston businesses, organizations, and schools taken from newspapers; notes on James L. Petigru, mostly extracts from newspapers, legal records, and his correspondence, arranged chronologically; notes on Susan Petigru King; and two boxes of cards labeled "Boston-Charleston:Secondary material notes. Books, articles, theses, etc.".

Composition book kept by Frances Jervey begins in 1889 and ends with graduation in 1899 and contains her "Autobiography of a Southern School-Girl" as well as a "Programme of Graduation" from Misses Gibbes' School, 38 Coming Street, 1899. Other entries include writings and musings on topics such as the life of General Lee, George Washington, schoolmates, rain, strawberries, bees, butterflies, wheat, cotton, squirrels, acorns, rabbits and "what I would like for breakfast". In addition, there are periodic entries that begin "Dear Miss Gibbes" and describe goings on in the daily life of the pupil, including going to the circus and activities while on Christmas holiday

Contains 17 diaries written between 1887 and 1916 that describe Harriet Coe's activities and day-to-day life in Durham, N.H. Also included in the collection are two scrapbooks and photographs of Durham

Papers of Quaker woman who lived in Central Iowa. Bulk of collection consists of her diaries covering sixty-two years of her life, describing her farm, church, and social activities. There are gaps and some diaries are represented only by transcripts of the originals. Includes papers of Reuben Taber, Ellen's husband. Reuben wrote an account of his experience teaching Freedmen in Mississippi after the Civil War. Also contains miscellaneous Taber, Strang, and Smith family papers and an account of an Dakota Sioux Indian attack on Correctionville, Iowa in 1861, written by Ellen's sister Sarah Strang

The collection contains two white cotton petticoats, one with cutwork down the front panel that belonged to Susanna Dickinson and one with horizontal lace insertions that belonged to Angelina Dickinson. It is unknown when these garments were made, but it is not believed that they date to the Battle of the Alamo in 1836. Other items relating to the Dickinson family that were donated with the petticoats have been separated from the collection

Collection (1897-1943) consists of three scrapbooks, the subjects of which are the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allan Poe and one photocopy of the Poe material -- The scrapbooks were compiled by Cassandra Moncure Lyne and her daughter, Cassandra Moncure Lyne. Anecdotes concern Edwin Booth, Charles Dickens, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, Sam Houston, and the Battle of Gettysburg. A brief history of the estate at Arlington, Virginia is included, beginning with Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington. Other clippings touch briefly on aspects of Edgar Allan Poe's life at West Point, the University of Virginia, in Baltimore and Richmond. The scrapbooks are a source for the genealogy of the Moncure and Lyne families

Harriet Hubbard Ayer (Mrs. H.C. Ayer). A scrapbook, 1876-1900