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2 boxes, 10 linear inches
Agency History/Biographical note:
Scope and Content:
The Journal Letters consist of daily or weekly entries written by 26 different
teachers at Mount Holyoke. The "journalists" include Elizabeth D. Ballentine,
Ellen P. Bowers, Mary W. Chapin, Anna C. Edwards, Mary A. Evans, Fidelia Fiske,
Rebbeca Fiske, Sophia D. Hazen, Antoinette Hubbell, Harriet Johnson, Sarah D.
Locke, Lucy T. Lyon, Mary Lyon, Sarah H. Melvin, Mary O. Nutting, Ellen C. Parsons,
Helen Peabody, Sophia Spofford, Sarah Start, Sarah D. Locke Stow, Esther E.
Thomas, Mary Titcomb, Julia M. Tolman, Susan L. Tolman, Mary C. Whitman, Adeline
H. Willcox. The Letters discuss the religious atmosphere of the Seminary and
number of conversions that took place. Students converted and those "unsaved"
are mentioned by name. The letters also report on a wide variety of topics including
illness and deaths within the Seminary and within the broader Mount Holyoke
Community. Also discussed are Mary Lyon and other teachers at the Seminary,
others associated with the Seminary (such as the Porters), alumnae serving as
missionaries abroad, new construction and other physical changes to the campus,
the make up of the student body and new about individual students. The Journal
letters also reflect the personal lives, interests and concerns of the writers.
The later letters tend to reflect less of the religious life and more of the
general campus life and events.
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