Lenora E. Clark Diary, Northwestern University Settlement Records 1906-1910

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Lenora E. Clark Diary, Northwestern University Settlement Records 1906-1910

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Clark's diary is a four-by-six, bound book. The printed title page describes it as “Ward's ‘Line a Day’ Book, A comparative record for five years” (copyright 1892). The ‘comparative’ format is unusual: each page is printed with a month and date, and is divided horizontally into five sections; the diarist fills in the events of each date five years in a row, resulting in a unique retrospective view. In order to fit so many entries on each small page, each entry is allotted only four short lines. Clark wrote her name and address in the front of the diary. Entries began with January, 1906 and ended with December 31, 1910, although the first several weeks of 1906 were blank or incomplete and there are a few other blank dates. A few entries and end-of -year reflections continue into the ‘memoranda’ section at the end of the diary. Over the years, Clark wrote in several colors of ink and pencil. Clark's handwriting is hard to read, and when she referred to critical pints in her romances she resorted to cryptic notes, exclamation points and dashes. Entries made during the last year of the diary, 1910, were even briefer than usual.

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Clark, Lenora E.

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Although Lenora E. Clark diligently recorded her daily activities in her personal diary for five years, her entries do not reveal much specific information about her connection with the Northwestern University Settlement, or about Clark herself. She lived at 2303 North Kenmore Avenue in Chicago, and celebrated her birthday on July 28; her father had died in 1902, and she may have lived with her mother, but other facts are hard to determine. The diary entries are very bri...

Northwestern University Settlement (Chicago, Ill.)

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The Northwestern University Settlement Association was founded in 1891 by Northwestern University president Henry Wade Rogers, his wife, Emma Winner Rogers, and Charles Zeublin, a Northwestern alumnus, class of 1887. Zeublin had returned to Chicago after having spent time at the first university settlement, Toynbee Hall, in London. He and the Rogers wanted to forge a tie between the settlement they were planning to establish in Chicago and Northwestern University. From the beginning...

Clark, Leonora E.

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