Series Descriptions
Arrangement: Chronological
Linking Note: Form Part of RG 22, Journal Letters
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Last Updated: 1998/12/21
Description:
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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Arrangement: Chronological
Linking Note: Forms Part of Record Group 22, Journal Letters
Restrictions: Unrestricted.
Last Updated: 1998/12/21
Description:
The extant Journal Memoranda are in 8 separate
journals and cover the dates 1862-1877. The
Memoranda appear to be notes kept for later
inclusion in the Journal Letters. They cover
much of the same material reflected in the
Journal Letters, but with varying degrees of
detail. They generally include information on
illness and deaths within the Seminary and within
the broader Mount Holyoke Community, information
about teachers at the Seminary, information
guests and speakers and others associated with
the Seminary, alumnae serving as missionaries
abroad, new construction and other physical
changes to the campus, the make up of the student
body and news about individual students. On
occasion details not mentioned in the Letters are
mentioned in the Memoranda and vise versa.
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