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Agency History/Biographical note:
Katharine Elizabeth (Betty) Taylor was born on December 23, 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts to Earl and Helen Travis Taylor. She graduated from the Girls' Latin School in Boston in 1931, and from Mount Holyoke College in 1935. She spent her junior year (the 1933-1934 academic year) studying in France. In June of 1935, she married Richard Dennison Wells, a graduate of the Harvard Engineering School. They lived in Lewiston, Maine and had one daughter, Kitty, who later atttended Colby College. In 1963, Betty Taylor Wells began a program at Northeastern University for her master's degree in education, and started teaching French in high school the following year. She received her M.Ed. in 1966.

Scope and Content:
The Kathrine Elizabeth "Betty" Taylor Wells Correspondence contain letters to her parents, written as a Mount Holyoke College student spending her junior year in France, and correspondence with Simone Calvet, a French friend, 1937-1993. Student letters (50 items) describe her studies, social activities, and travels in France, Germany and Italy, while the other letters (120 items, in French) reflect each woman's intellect, family and social life, and their thoughts on marriage, motherhood, world affairs, illness, aging and the nature of their friendship.

Cite as: Betty Wells Correspondence, Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts

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