Correspondence of Jean F. McNair, 1884-1919.

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Correspondence of Jean F. McNair, 1884-1919.

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Correspondence of Jean F. McNair, chiefly letters addressed to her. Included are letters from her sister, Anna Agnes McNair (1867-1922) written while studying for her for B. A. at Elmira College, Elmira, N. Y. (1884-1889) and teaching at private schools in Wilmington, Del. and Hazleton, Pa. (1892-1896). The letters discuss the life in college, teaching and schools, family news, social life, etc. Also included are letters from her younger sister Rebecca Sharon McNair (b. 1884) who in 1894-1897 attended a school in Hazelton, Pa., and her scrapbook kept during her studies at Berkeley University in 1904-1908. There is a group of letters from Emma Briel, a Vassar graduate who in 1901-1903 worked in Puerto-Rico and Northern Germany, and letters from nurses of the Army Nurse Corps who were stationed at various camp hospitals of the American Expeditionary Forces (1918-1919).

122 pieces.2 boxes.

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