Papers of the Eliot family, 1896-1957.

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Papers of the Eliot family, 1896-1957.

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Half of the collection contains personal correspondence of Samuel Ely Eliot, his wife Elsa, and their son Mather Greenleaf Eliot. Much of the correspondence in Sam Eliot's series of papers describes the everyday events at Woods Run Settlement House. Most of Elsa's correspondence is news shared between family members and close friends. It includes three letters sent from her family in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake and drafts of letters she sent home while visiting relatives in Germany in 1905. Mather's correspondence mostly dates from the 1950s. He and Meda frequently wrote home detailing their activities that took them all over the Middle East. The photographs located in Mather Eliot's series are all unidentified and include images of military men and unidentified European towns, as well as portraits of him. The other half of the Eliot family papers contain minutes, business correspondence, event invitations, newsletters and other information about organizations. The groups Friends of Harvey Gaul, Allegheny County Committee for Protestant Refugees, Board of Visitation of Allegheny County, Manchester Redevelopment, Russian War Relief, Inc. and Woods Run Settlement House have especially rich information. Miscellaneous family papers and photographs include unidentified and undated correspondence and photographs. The address cards of the last series give names and addresses of people invited to an unidentified event in the early 1950s.

3 cubic ft.

University of Pittsburgh

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University of Pittsburgh

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Eliot, Samuel Ely

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Eliot, Elsa von Mandersheid

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American Friends of the Middle East

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American friends service committee

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Russian War Relief, Inc.

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