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Clarke, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1908. Benjamin Franklin Clarke papers, 1852-1908.

Title: Benjamin Franklin Clarke papers, 1852-1908.

Consists of 60 volumes of diaries, account books, notebooks, and an autograph album chronicling the life of teacher and professor of mathematics Benjamin Franklin Clarke from 1852 to 1908. Topics documented in the diaries include men's attitudes toward work and education in the nineteenth century, the training of teachers, student and faculty life at Brown University, family life, travel in the United States and Europe, attendance at and teaching of Sunday schools, and the weather in New England. In diaries written from 1852 to 1854, Clarke describes life on the family farm near Newport, Me.; work as a machinist in Me. and Mass.; and his attendance at Baptist churches, Sunday schools, lectures and his spiritual life. In the 1852-54 diaries he often described his desire to go to school as well as loneliness and depression. He attended lectures by Professor Agassiz at the Lowell Institute and by a Mr. Hichcock at the YMCA in 1854. While attending the Bridgewater, Mass., State Normal School from 1854 to 1855, Clarke wrote about his classes, other students, teachers, and a teachers' institute conducted in April 1855. Professor Agassiz taught classes at the Bridgewater Normal School. Diaries from 1855 to 1859 document Clarke's experiences as a teacher in a Medfield, Mass., school and at Bridgewater Normal School. Clarke described his life as a Brown University student from 1859 to 1863. After 1863 the diaries concern Clarke's responsibilities as a Brown University faculty member, his family life, travel, and events at Brown University. Travel diaries and account books describe Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy from 1881 to 1882 (6 v.) and Ireland, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Egypt, Palestine, Constantinople, and Greece from 1897 to 1898 (4 v.). The Europe and Middle East travel diaries have photographs and prints glued in and inserted throughout. There are also travel or vacation diaries describing Minn. in 1864 and 1870; eastern Canada, including N.B. (Chatham), N.S., Quebec, Runneymede, and Gaspe from 1885 to 1891. Other diaries describe Mass., including Cape Cod, Vt., Conn., and Me. in various years from 1877 to 1894. An 1856-1857 diary includes a description of a walking tour in central Mass., beginning and ending in the town of Waltham. There are copies of correspondence transcribed in or inserted in some vols. In addition to diary references to Sunday schools, there are two notebooks that contain Sunday school lessons and bible topics. Clarke usually recorded daily weather conditions in the diaries. Notes created by Clarke's granddaughter, Mary Frances Williams, are inserted in a number of the volumes.

ArchivalResource: 60 v. (4.4 linear ft.)

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Clarke, Mary Elizabeth Reynolds, 1833-1908. Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Clarke diaries and photographs 1850-1908.

Title: Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Clarke diaries and photographs 1850-1908.

Consists of diaries (52 v.), notebooks about art, reports of sermons, accounts, and photographs that document the life of teacher and homemaker Mary Elizabeth Reynolds Clarke. The diaries chronicle Clarke's teacher training at a Charlestown (Boston, Mass.), seminary in 1851 and various teaching jobs she held in R.I., Conn., and Ky. between 1851 and 1858. Information for and about the art classes that Clarke taught outside of a school was kept throughout the diaries. The diaries also served as a place to keep recipes; lists of clothing, calls made and received, and correspondence; notes about entertainments given; cash accounts; lace and knitting patterns; contributions to Bible class; and contributors to the Brown University Women's College. Clarke wrote about her courtship with and marriage to Benjamin Franklin Clarke; her daughter, Martha; and travel. Visits to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 are noted. Vacations in Me., Vt. N.H., R.I., and N.Y.; and Canada, including N.S. and Quebec are described in separate vacation diaries. There are separate diaries for trips to Europe (1881-1882) and Europe and the Middle East (1897-1898). Diaries for the first European trip (5 v.) include descriptions of Great Britain, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, and Italy. The diaries from the second trip to Europe and the Middle East (4 v.) describe travel through Ireland, the Jersey Islands, France, Italy, Egypt, Germany, and Norway. All of the Europe and Middle East travel diaries have photographs, prints and ephemera glued in or inserted throughout. Notes created by Clarke's granddaughter, Mary Frances Williams, are inserted in a number of the volumes.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 linear ft.Diaries 52 v.

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Williams, Martha R. Clarke, 1872-1964. Martha R. Clarke Williams papers, 1884-1985 (bulk 1884-1955).

Title: Martha R. Clarke Williams papers, 1884-1985 (bulk 1884-1955).

Consists of diaries (bulk), commonplace books, correspondence, notebooks, accounts books, writings, a typescript for a book, a scrapbook, a baby book, and a photograph album dating from 1884 to 1985, although the bulk dates from 1884 to 1955. The collection documents the life of Martha R. Clarke Williams. Subjects documented in the collection include women's colleges, women's writings, travel, education, marriage, and motherhood. There are travel and vacation diaries that describe trips to Canada in the 1890s; to Europe and the Middle East in 1897-1898; Europe in 1910, 1921-1923, and 1927; Bermuda in 1912; and Washington D.C., New Orleans, Oklahoma, New England, and elsewhere in the United States. The account books primarily relate to travel. A photograph album and diaries document Williams's attendance at Smith College from 1891 to 1893. Williams made the cyanotype photographs. The notebooks contain Williams's ideas for stories and plays and the writings (1895-1905 and n.d.) include Williams's thesis. The family correspondence dates from 1891 to 1906. Mary Frances Williams, daughter of Martha R. Clarke Williams, wrote the biography (1985) and compiled the scrapbook (1980). Notes created by Mary Frances Williams are inserted in a number of the volumes.

ArchivalResource: 3.2 linear ft.

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