Letters, 1869-1944.

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Letters, 1869-1944.

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Letters written by Elizabeth Sherman Cameron, wife of U.S. senator J. Donald Cameron, to members of her family. The letters were written from Washington, where she served as hostess for her husband; Paris, where, following a legal separation from Cameron, she lived as an expatriate and during World War I, where she ran a "Foyer aux Refugies" to aid refugees from Belgium and France; and from Stepleton, a home in Dorset, Eng. where she vacationed and moved following her daughter Martha's death in 1918. Cameron commented on her friendship with Henry Adams and his attention to her daughter Martha, and with Edith Wharton while in Paris. The bulk of the letters were written from Stepleton from 1930-44 and comment on contemporary politics, the coming of World War II, the effects of the war on England, and family matters. The primary recipients of her letters were her sister Mary Miles, niece Cecilia "Tia" Miles Reber, and nephew Sherman Miles. The collection also includes letters from her mother, Eliza Sherman, prior to and following her marriage to Senator Cameron.

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937

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Adams, Henry, 1838-1918

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Sherman, Elizabeth Gould, -1848

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Cameron, Elizabeth, 1857-1944

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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore paper, 1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70939302 ...

Miles, Sherman, 1882-1966

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Sherman Miles was a United States military attache to Turkey. From the description of The Sherman Miles papers, 1924-1925. (US Army, Mil Hist Institute). WorldCat record id: 47135380 ...

Cameron, J. D. (James Donald), 1833-1918

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Reber, Cecilia Miles.

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Miles, Mary.

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