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Agency History/Biographical note:
Karen Averill Jackson was born on January 17, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Elmore and Elisabeth Averill Jackson, a 1931 graduate of Mount Holyoke College. She graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1961, majoring in Political Science. That fall she began working for the McGraw-Hill Publishing Company in New York City. After attending Columbia Univeristy for two years, she received an M.A. in Government in 1964. She married David Williams, and they spent the years 1964-1965 in Moscow while he studied journalism.

Scope and Content:
The Karen Averill Jackson Williams Correspondence contains typed transcripts of letters to her parents, Elisabeth Averill Jackson (Mount Holyoke College Class of 1931) and Elmore Jackson, written from Moscow where her husband, David L. Williams, was enrolled in a school of journalism. Describes their living conditions, social and cultural activities and trips to Leningrad, Kiev and Central Asia.

Cite as: Karen J. Williams Correspondence, Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, Massachusetts

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