Papers, 1874-1934.

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Papers, 1874-1934.

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Papers of Edgar D. Shaw, a journalist and member of the Hearst Publications managerial staff and his wife Gertrude M. (Stevenson) Shaw, including letters from him to his parents from Boston (1897) while beginning a new job and looking for housing there with his first wife; a few letters from Edgar to Gertrude; Gertrude's line-a-day diary for 1920 kept while she and Edgar were living in New York before their marriage; and a few letters to Edgar from his daughter Dorothy Shaw while she was a student at Wellesley College. (Cont) The collection also includes letters to Betty Brainerd, also a journalist, from Vilhjalmur Stefansson and from an unidentified hospital patient undergoing medical and/or psychiatric treatment during World War I; misc. cancelled checks and receipts representing the Shaws' life in New York; and a series of letters from Eliot C. Clarke to his parents from Chicago (1874-75).

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Massachusetts Historical Society

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Stefansson, Vilhjalmur, 1879-1962

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Vilhjalmur Stefansson was born on November 3, 1879 in Arnes, Manitoba, Canada. He attended the University of North Dakota from 1897-1902. He was voted the best orator in 1900, and also worked for the school newspaper. In 1930 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree, only the third such degree awarded. He then transferred to the University of Iowa and graduated in 1903 with a degree from the School of Liberal Arts. He next enrolled at Harvard, graduating with a Master of Arts degree in 1...

Clarke, Eliot C. (Eliot Channing), 1845-1921

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Wellesley College

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Shaw, Dorothy, -1657

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Shaw, Edgar Dwight, 1871-1931.

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Brainerd, Betty.

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Shaw, Gertrude M. Stevenson.

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