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Series Descriptions


MS 0712.1

Diaries , 1926

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/10/13

Description:
This series consists of a travel diary entitled "My Walking? Tour around the Baltics with Variations" with entries from June 19 - August 28, 1926. The volume describes her daily activities during a tour of Europe in 1926. It includes information about her travels in Sweden, England, Germany, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Switzerland, France, Latvia, and Lithuania. Her observations include such commentary as "June 21. Spent the day on deck. Fooled around with several Amherst men and one Harvard youth who can't seem to remember his own name. Had a regular skein of german beer which does not appeal to me. My trip: sea - blue - glorious; sleep - necessary, overcoming; men - inebriated, disgustingly foolish; moon - sublime; Food - at all hours, all kinds; Crew - German, friendly; Date with Dick - adorable."

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MS 0712.2

Correspondence , 1926-1927, 1974-1990

2 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/10/22

Description:
This series consists of letters and postcards written to and by Moore, 1926-1990. Of particular note are documents relating to her trip to Europe in 1926. These items include postcards that she sent to her mother and letters from people whom she met during the trip (including an Estonian man who wrote a love letter to her, 15 August 1927).

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MS 0712.3

Memorabilia , 1926

9 folders
By form of material
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/10/22

Description:
This series consists of materials relating to Moore's 1926 tour of Europe, including her passport, travel itineraries, a map of the tour route, postcards, and guidebooks. The guidebooks include a publication entitled "Poland's Access to the Sea and the Claims of East Prussia," published in 1926.

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MS 0712.4

Biographical Information , ca. 1926-1993

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/10/22

Description:
Consists of newspaper clippings about Moore and her friends. These clippings include obituaries. The series also contains an invitation to Moore's wedding in 1938.

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MS 0712.5

Scrapbook , 1924-1928

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1999/10/22

Description:
This series consists of a scrapbook Moore kept as a student at Mount Holyoke College, 1924-1928. The volume primarily contains a list of friends, comments about faculty members and the campus, class songs and yells, lists of "favorite things," social functions, "memorable trips," and "dates and doings," 1924-1925. It also includes some memorabilia such as ticket stubs, photographs, and a program for a 1924 football game between Columbia and Syracuse.

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MS 0712.6

Photographs , ca. 1924-1990

1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0712, The Dorothy Gleason Moore Papers.
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/04/30

Description:
This series contains photographs of Moore as well as several of her Mount Holyoke College classmates. These primarily consist of photographs taken while she was a student at Mount Holyoke, 1924-28. There are also some later photographs of several of Moore's classmates.

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