Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor Diaries (#4994) 1918-1979

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Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor Diaries (#4994), 1918-1979

Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor Diaries (#4994) 1918-1979

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Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor (b. 1888) of Scotland Neck, N.C., was a nurse in France during World War I, and later in several locations in the United States and abroad. She married Kempton Potter Aiken Taylor, a physician, in 1928. Diaries, 1918-1979, of Elizabeth Herbert Smith Taylor contain brief entries noting events in her life, especially her travel and social activities. Most of the volumes are five-year diaries with only four or five lines written for each day. Frequent subjects of diary entries are the weather, books read, visits, letters written and received, health, chores, and church attendance. After her marriage in 1928, there are frequent comments on her husband's actions or attitudes. The first diary begins on 7 September 1918. A nurse during World War I, on 8 September, she embarked for France as a member of the Maguire Unit of the Army Nurse Corps. In France, she wrote about working and living conditions and about dances and social occasions. Nursing is occasionally mentioned, but never described in detail. It appears that she worked in Poland in 1920, in Pennsylvania in 1922, and in Texas in 1923, returning to North Carolina after each job. In 1927, she met her husband while working in Guatemala. The couple seems to have lived in Panama and Cuba, finally settling in Florida in 1944.

12 v. (1.5 linear feet)

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection