Grosvenor, Esther Delia Scarborough, 1812-1846. Esther Delia Scarborough Grosvenor diaries, letters, and commonplace book, 1817-1900.
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Esther Delia Scarborough Grosvenor diaries, letters, and commonplace book, 1817-1900.
Four holograph diaries, dated Jan. 1 1830-Jan. 5, 1833; Jan. 5, 1834-Aug. 5, 1838; Mar. 10, 1840-Nov. 17, 1840; and Nov. 18, 1840-Apr. 8, 1841, kept by Esther Delia Scarborough Grosvenor. Also included are copied extracts from her diary, in the same hand, Aug. 28, 1838-Sept. 29, 1839. Grosvenor began her first diary while a student at Monson, Mass. After her return to Connecticut, the diary records her reading (Rollin's Ancient History and Campbell's Pleasures of Hope), social visits, travels in Connecticut and New York, and her extensive religious activity, such as temperance meetings and visits to the sick. The remaining diaries describe her life while married to Mason Grosvenor, with many details about her husband's pastoral work, church and town activity in Ashfield, Sharon, and Hudson, along with notes about her young children. Also present is a file of correspondence, 27 letters, totaling 74 pages, 1827-1900, with letters to and from Esther, Mason, and William Mason. In additional to family news, there is a letter from Mason's mother pertaining to his undecided choice of career (1827); letters from Mason to the brethren at Illinois College explaining his reluctance to move to Illinois (1832); a series of letters from Mason to Esther in which he deliberates whether to take the pastorate offered at Sharon, Conn. (1836); a letter from Illinois College to Mason upon the completion of a bust honoring his service to the college (1884); and a letter from Illinois College to William Mason on the funeral of professor Grosvenor (1886). The remainder of the collection contains Mason Grosvenor's manuscript preaching license, dated May 14, 1830; a manuscript commonplace book kept by Esther, 20 p., with excerpts from Byron, Campbell, and others; a holograph diary, 24 p., kept by Mason Grosvenor, Jan.-Feb., 1817 (with postscript, Feb. 1821); a printed handbill for "Miss L. Grosvenor's Boarding & Day School for Young Ladies, Philadelphia," addressed to Miss Lydia Grosvenor, Mansfield, Conn., with manuscript note around outer edge.
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