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Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers, ca. 1830-1869

Title: Justin Perkins (AC 1829) Papers ca. 1830-1869

Educator, minister and missionary to Persia. Collection includes correspondence with others in his field, manuscript sermons, lectures and notes, some newspaper clippings and pamphlets, and some bound manuscripts, mostly letters and journals.

ArchivalResource: 6 archives boxes; (3 linear ft.)

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Perkins, Justin, 1805-1869. Perkins papers, ca. 1830-1869.

Title: Perkins papers, ca. 1830-1869.

Collection contains correspondence to Perkins, manuscript sermons, lectures and notes, pamphlets and journals relating chiefly to his work as a Christian missionary in Persia. Correspondents include: Edwin E. Bliss (AC 1837), Harrison Gray Otis Dwight, Fidelia Fiske, William Goodell, Cyrus Hamlin, Elias Riggs (AC 1829), William G. Schauffler, Benjamin Schneider (AC 1830), Horatio Southgate and William S. Tyler (AC 1830).

ArchivalResource: 6 archive boxes (3 linear ft.)

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Fiske papers MS 0536., 1841-1866.

Title: Fiske papers 1841-1866.

Fiske, Fidelia, 1816-1864; Teacher and missionary. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1842. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary teacher, 1858-1864. Papers contain letters and her book entitled, "Recollections of Mary Lyon." Primarily consisting of letters regarding her journey to Persia and her founding of a girls' school while a missionary there.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (1 linear ft.)

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Mary C. Whitman Eddy Papers MS 0851., 1837-1875

Title: Mary C. Whitman Eddy Papers 1837-1875

Eddy, Mary Coolidge Whitman, 1809-1875; teacher and college principal. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1839, teacher and Associate Principal, 1842-1849, and Principal, 1849-1850. Papers consist of correspondence, a notebook, biographical information, photographs and a portrait concerning both her personal life and her work at Mount Holyoke. Letters by Eddy are chiefly addressed to Hannah Porter and include references to Mary Lyon, the missionary work of Fidelia Fiske, and activities of the National Board of Popular Education; one letter (1848) mentions of Emily Dickinson as a student.

ArchivalResource: 1 box; ( 0.2 linear ft.)

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Ibbetson, Mary Augusta, 1845-1936. Papers, 1858-1936 1864.

Title: Papers, 1858-1936 1864.

The Mary Augusta Ibbetson Papers consist primarily of a typed transcript (prepared by her granddaughter Eleanore Ibbetson Wiedmann) of a diary covering the years 1858-1861 and 1863-1865. The volumes reflects her activities as a young girl in Illinois, where she attended Greenwood Academy in Chesterfield, and as a student at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. The diary includes information about her housework; social activities; religious life; studies in algebra, botany, Latin, rhetoric and other subjects; the health of family members and friends; thoughts about young men and marriage, and Civil War news. She also discusses Mount Holyoke faculty members, pariticularly Fidelia Fiske and Catharine Hopkins; school regulations; and events such as lectures by visiting missionaries and Mountain Day in 1864. In addition to the diary, her papers include a 1926 letter expressing regret at her inability to attend a Mount Holyoke reunion and information about her death in 1936.

ArchivalResource: 2 folders.

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