Papers of the Vail-Motter family, 1867-1969 (inclusive).

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Papers of the Vail-Motter family, 1867-1969 (inclusive).

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Collection contains family correspondence, including courtship letters, biographical data, and photos of two generations of the Vail-Motter family; diaries, poems, and other writings of Ellen Motter and correspondence and clippings about them; and some correspondence of her children.

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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College of the Sisters of Bethany (Topeka, Kan.)

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Vail family.

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Thomas Hubbard Vail (1812-1889), the first Episcopal bishop of Kansas, founded the Episcopal Seminary in Topeka in 1865, an institution of higher education for women that was renamed the College of the Sisters of Bethany and then absorbed into Washburn College in the 1930s. His wife, Ellen Ledlie Bowman Vail (1828-1894), served as Matron of the college. The couple also founded Christ's Hospital in Topeka. Their daughter, Ellen Sitgreaves Vail Motter (1870-1952), who graduated in 1890 from Bethan...

Vail, Ellen Ledlie Bowman, 1828-1894.

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Tharp, Louise Hall, 1898-1992

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American scholar. From the description of Typed letters signed (13) : Darien, Conn., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1954-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868240 ...

Motter, T.H. Vail (Thomas Hubbard Vail), 1901-

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Epithet: editor of Arthur Hallam's poems British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001124.0x000243 ...

Washburn University.

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Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978

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Motter family.

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Vail, Thomas H. (Thomas Hubbard), 1812-1889

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Vail was Episcopal bishop of the diocese of Kansas. From the guide to the Letters, 1872-1874, (University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library Kansas Collection) Thomas Hubbard Vail was the first Episcopal Bishop of Kansas, and founded Topeka's first hospital, Christ Hospital, in 1882, as well as the College of the Sisters of Bethany in Topeka. Vail was born in Richmond, Virginia on October 21, 1812. His parents were from New England, and on the death of his father in ...

Vail, Samuel Bowman, 1868-1878.

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Motter, Ellen Sitgreaves Vail, 1870-1952.

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Episcopal Female Seminary (Topeka, Kan.)

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