Papers, 1892-1927 (inclusive).

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Papers, 1892-1927 (inclusive).

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Collection includes correspondence between Hollis and Helen Webster, letters from Hollis to his mother and sister written from Europe in 1892, and letters to Helen from her children, some while away at Girl Scout camp.

3 linear ft.

Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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The Girl Scouts were founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912 when Low organized the first Girl Guide troop meeting of 18 girls at her home in Savannah, Georgia. By the next year they became the Girl Scouts of the United States. By the 1920s troops were forming overseas as well. Low was inspired to start the Girl Scouts after she met Robert Lord Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts, in 1911. Beginning with Lou Henry Hoover, the incumbent First Lady has served as the Honorary Pr...

Webster, Helen Maria Noyes, 1872-1949.

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Webster family.

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Hollis Webster (1862-1941) married Helen Maria (Noyes) (1872-1949) in 1903. He graduated from Harvard (1884) and taught at Browne and Nichols School, Roxbury Latin School, and at Manter Hall School in Cambridge, where he taught Latin, Greek, German, French, and Spanish. He was founder and first secretary of the Boston Mycological Club. Helen Maria (Noyes) Webster attended Vassar (1895-1896) and Radcliffe (1897-1898) colleges and lectured and wrote on gardening and botany. They had six children a...

Webster, Hollis.

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