Edith Souther Tufts Papers

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Edith Souther Tufts Papers

Edith Souther Tufts Papers

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Papers of Edith Souther Tufts, class of 1884 (enrolled in a five-year music program at Wellesley, 1881-1885); instructor in Greek from 1893 to 1894 and 1902 to 1909; Registrar of the College from 1903 to 1919; Dean of Residence from 1919 to 1930; Dean emerita from 1930 until her death in 1935; the papers, having been arranged by Miss Tufts' niece, Anne B. Tufts of Dover, New Hampshire into a number of groups, each group accompanied by a list including the names of correspondents, dates and excerpts from the letters (along with background information in some instances) were maintained in these groupings. The papers date from 1881 to 1934; consist of correspondence, invitations, programs, pamphlet, travel diary and clippings; concerning Edith Tufts' life and friend-ships at Wellesley, family, teaching at Dana Hall, graduate study at Yale, and later work at Wellesley as Dean of Residence; with materials of particular interest on Miss Pendleton's travels in the Orient and in the United States, the Tarbell portrait of Edith S. Tufts, Thomas Collier Clark, Honorary Degree [D.Sc.] Award to Annie Jump Cannon '84 at Oxford University (1925), Miss Tufts' illness (1929) and visit to Europe (1933-1934).

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