Diary, 1800-[ca. 1965], 1800-1852 (bulk).

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Diary, 1800-[ca. 1965], 1800-1852 (bulk).

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The diary, 1800-1852, is most detailed during the years prior to the birth of her children. Subjects include social life, her beaux, meetings attended, clothing, family news, shopping, singing school, domestic chores, quilting, trips to New York City, games, thoughts on marriage, birth of her children, her husband's family, and a dispute in her family over land. Also, a biography and background notes by Louise S. Bechtel, ca. 1965; and photographs of family members, ca. 1850-ca. 1920.

.3 cubic ft.

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Brown, Samuel F

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Guion, Polly, 1782-1866.

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Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985

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Editor, author, lecturer on children's literature. Louise Seaman Bechtel, 1894-1985, served as Editor and Head of the Juvenile Book Department of Macmillan Publishing Company in New York City. A 1915 graduate of Vassar College, Bechtel began work for Macmillan in 1919. After leaving Macmillan in 1934, Bechtel worked as a freelance writer and lecturer. She was the editor of the children's section of the New York Herald Tribune Book Review from 1948 to 1956 and was associate editor of The Horn Boo...