Harriet E. Walker collection 1841-1854 Walker, Harriet E. collection

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Harriet E. Walker collection 1841-1854 Walker, Harriet E. collection

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This collection contains letters that Harriet E. Walker received from family members and friends, as well as letters addressed to her mother, who lived in Palmyra, New York. Several of Walker's female correspondents wrote about their daily lives in New York, and her brother James commented on gender relations. Walker also wrote to her mother about her studies at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.

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William L. Clements Library

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Walker, James

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Epithet: clerk British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0x000024 Epithet: of Walker Burges and Cooper civil engineers British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x000396 Epithet: Major; formerly of the 42nd Regt British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000751.0...

Walker, Harriet.

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Harriet Ellen Walker (b. 1827), the daughter of Harriet Walker of Palmyra, New York, attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary in the mid-1840s, and became a schoolteacher after her graduation in 1847. She had at least one brother, James. Harriet Ellen Walker married Doctor Benjamin Throop in 1853, and they had one daughter, Helen Price Throop (b. 1856). Harriet Ellen Walker Throop died in 1860. From the guide to the Harriet E. Walker collection, Walker, Harriet E. collecti...

Mount Holyoke Female Seminary

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Mount Holyoke Female Seminary was chartered in 1836; it was reincorporated as Mount Holyoke Seminary and College in 1888 and as Mount Holyoke College in 1893. From the description of Catalogue, 1862. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007161 ...