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Agency History/Biographical note:
Lydia R. Baldwin was born in Southampton, Massachusetts, entered Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in 1843 and graduated in 1845. From 1845-1849 she taught in schools in Easthampton, Northampton, Southampton and Westfield, Massachusetts. She married David B. Phelps in 1847, with whom she had three sons and a daughter, Mary Phelps (Class of 1877). Lydia Baldwin Phelps died in Southampton, Massachusetts in 1872.

Scope and Content:
The Lydia R. Baldwin Phelps Papers consist of correspondence; 14 compositions written while Baldwin was a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, regarding various subjects ranging from religion to mathematics; and biographical material, including an undated, half-completed biographical information sheet. The papers contain a letter from Emily Russell Phelps (x-Class of 1912) Baldwin's grandaughter by marriage, regarding Baldwin and Mary Phelps (Class of 1877), Baldwin's daughter. There are 7 letters; six from Baldwin while at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary to her family and friends concerning events and academics at Mount Holyoke, and one from Martha Lyman to Baldwin concerning an application to the Seminary.

Cite as: Lydia R. Baldwin Phelps Papers, Mount Holyoke College, Archives and Special Collections, South Hadley, MA

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