MS 0615.1
Correspondence , 1907-1914, 1940-1979
4 folders
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2002/11/18
Description:
The correspondence chiefly consists of forty-nine
letters written by Jerome while a student at
Mount Holyoke College, 1907-1911. Her
correspondence is addressed to her mother
Elizabeth Maude Jerome, grandmother Elizabeth
Gilbert Jerome, and brother Gilbert Nelson Jerome
and most of the letters date from 1907-1909. She
describes many aspects of her life at Mount
Holyoke, including traditions such as Mountain
Day, Freshman Frolic, and Junior Show and
activities such as parties, concerts, basketball
games, an "Ice Carnival," play performances,
try-outs for the College Choir, and a mock
political convention and parade of suffragists
held in November 1908. She also discusses
religious services, her clothing and finances,
and Mount Holyoke's food and grading policies.
Many letters mention friends, classmates, and
faculty members and administrators, particularly
President Mary Emma Woolley and botany professor
Henrietta Edgecomb Hooker. In another letter to
her mother dated April 17, 1914, Jerome comments
on her brother's "new position" and describes a
recent visit to Boston. The correspondence also
includes postcards and letters, 1940-1979, from
several Mount Holyoke College friends and
classmates in which they discuss their
activities. In addition, a letter from 1979
concerns her contribution to the "GOP Victory
Fund of the Republican Congressional Committee."
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MS 0615.2
Scrapbook , 1907-ca. 1914
14 linear inches
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
Most of the material in this scrapbook relates to
Jerome's years as a student at Mount Holyoke
College, 1907-1911. The volume contains notes
from friends and faculty members and copies of
many College publications, including programs for
plays, concerts, and ceremonial events such as
Founder's Day. A "Table of Measurements" in the
scrapbook gives Jerome's physical dimensions and
lung capacity in 1907 and 1910. The book also
contains "Basket-Ball Songs", material relating
to Senior Mountain Day in 1911, a laundry list,
several of Jerome's report cards and
examinations, newspaper clippings about events at
the College, programs for plays, concerts, and
church services in Amherst and Springfield,
Massachusetts, and New Haven, Connecticut, dance
cards, postcards, valentines and other greeting
cards, and poems and drawings by Jerome.
Photographs in the scrapbook are of friends and
classmates, the campus, and faculty members,
including botany professor Henitetta Edgecomb
Hooker. Material dating from 1912-ca. 1914
consists of her account of a friend's wedding, a
postcard, programs, newspaper clippings, a
pamphlet relating to Mount Holyoke College, and
several photographs of classmates.
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MS 0615.3
Writings , 1904-1912, 1924, 1947
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
Writings consists of stories, essays, and a poem
written by Jerome. Most of the series consists
of her short stories as published in issues of
the New Haven High School monthly magazine "The
Crescent" for 1904-1907. This series also
includes a poem entitled "Autumn", dated
September 1, 1912, an account of a visit to the
"ancient home of the Gilberts" in England in
1924, and an essay called "Years Ago" written for
the "New Haven Teachers' Journal" of December
1947 in which she recalls her years as a high
school student.
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MS 0615.4
Art Work , ca. 1907-1939
1 folder
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The art work consists of two undated drawings by
Jerome that were probably done between 1907 and
1939. One is a watercolor drawing of a child
standing under a tree. The other is a silhouette
of her mother, Elizabeth Maude Jerome.
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MS 0615.5
Memorabilia , 1910, 1936, 1952, 1958
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The memorabilia consist of the songbook for the
Class of 1911 Junior Show at Mount Holyoke
College, 1910; a catalogue for an exhibition of
works by Jerome and other members of the New
Haven Paint and Clay Club, Inc., in March 1936;
an invitation to a tea honoring Jerome on the
occasion of her retirement from the New Haven
Library in 1952; and a note from "Tony" that
accompanied his gift of a book of poems by John
Updike, 1958.
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MS 0615.6
Oral History Transcript , 1975
1 folder
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The oral history transcript consists of a typed
transcript of interviews of Jerome conducted by
Roberta Yerkes Blanshard in January and March
1975 for the New Haven Quota Club. Jerome
discusses her ancestry tracing the Jerome and
Gilbert family lines to the eighteenth century,
and mentions her father, Yuan Phou Lee. She also
describes her years as a student at Mount Holyoke
College and her work in the New Haven library
system.
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MS 0615.7
Biographical Information , ca. 1918, 1922, 1941-1979
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The biographical information chiefly consists of
newspaper clippings about Jerome dating from 1922
and 1952-1963. These articles concern her work
as Art and Music Librarian at the New Haven Main
Branch Library from 1922-1952, her interest in
the Boy Scouts of America, and her involvement
with activities and events relating to Mount
Holyoke College. Two articles from 1941 and 1944
review art exhibits in New Haven that included
portraits by her. This series also includes a
biographical note from about 1918, an obituary
for Jerome, 1979, and tributes written after her
death.
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MS 0615.8
Mah Jong Game , ca. 1920s
8.5 linear inches
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The mah jong game that belonged to Jerome
probably dates from the 1920s and includes tiles,
dice, game pieces, and score sheets. The game,
which is in its original container, was
manufactured in the United States by the Milton
Bradley Company. An instruction booklet with the
game was written by J.P. Babcock and published by
Parker Brothers, Inc. in 1923.
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MS 0615.9
Photographs , ca. 1907-1952
1 folder
Chronological
Forms part of MS 0615, The Jennie Gilbert Jerome Papers
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 2001/03/22
Description:
The photographs chiefly consist of formal and
informal images of Jerome from 1907-1952.
Included are formal photographs of Jerome in her
cap and gown when she graduated from Mount
Holyoke College in 1911 and prints of photographs
used in a newspaper article about her retirement
from the New Haven Library in 1952. Informal
photographs consist of one of Jerome as a young
woman, possibly taken before she entered Mount
Holyoke in 1907, and several taken later in life.
This series also includes a 1945 photograph of
"Catherine, Ethel Jackson, and Davis Jackson."
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