Album, 1891.

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Album, 1891.

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Collection consists of one volume (58 pp.) entitled "Ye Log of Ye Square Partie at Ye Great Brewster in Ye Pleasant Month of July 1891." It contains drawings, watercolors, photographs, and daily entries for a two-week stay by four women on Great Brewster Island off of Boston, Mass. Entries are in at least two hands and include menus, descriptions of their reading, and other daily activities. The participants include Whittier, a woman with the initials B.C., and possibly a Mrs. Partridge and a Mrs. A.L. Tyler.

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

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Whittier, Helen Augusta, 1846-1925.

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The daughter of Moses and Lucinda (Blood) Whittier, Helen Augusta Whittier was born in Lowell, Mass., where her father ran Whittier Mills. She attended Lowell High School and Lasell Seminary (in Auburndale, Mass.), and taught china painting at the Lowell Evening Drawing School. She was also a founder of a club of 15 friends known as XV, a group that pursued home-study courses under the guidance of Anna E. Ticknor. Whittier went on to be an active member of many organizations, including the Middl...