Reminiscences, 1904.

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Reminiscences, 1904.

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Typescript reminiscences of Sarah Cabot Wheelwright, Boston socialite and philanthropist. Addressed to her daughter Mary, the 95-page memoir describes Sarah Wheelwright's childhood in Boston, Nahant, and Brookline, Mass.; social life in Washington, D.C. in the 1880s; and memorable events such as meetings with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Amos Bronson Alcott, with Charles Sumner, and with President Grover Cleveland. Wheelwright writes of her role in founding a nursing school at the Boston Hospital for Women and her organization of a women's club in Brookline called the Emery Bag. Throughout are comments on the Cabot family, particularly her brother, Dr. Samuel Cabot, and her parents, Samuel and Elizabeth Perkins Cabot, and Andrew Cunningham Wheelwright.

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