Edith Doane (Brown) Abbot Papers 1887-1978.

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Edith Doane (Brown) Abbot Papers 1887-1978.

The collection is comprised of 8 boxes of the personal papers of Edith Doane (Brown) Abbot. The collection also includes the papers of additional members of the Brown and Abbot families. CORRESPONDENCE contains correspondence to and from the Brown Family including information about Ediths time at Bryn Mawr College and the Brown familys international travels from 1887-1927 [bulk 1905-1927]. The photographs contain family photographs from the Brown, Abbot and Zimmerman families from 1886-1961. SCRAPBOOKS contains three volumes of scrapbooks created by Abbot. The scrapbooks all contain information on social, sporting and religious events in Massachusetts and at Bryn Mawr College along with Abbots detailed annotations. DIARIES contains continuous diaries from 1889-1925 and one diary for 1948. FAMILY PAPERS includes a two-volume set of the Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The 1927 album of Mr. and Mrs. Frank A. Brown (parents of Edith Doane Abbot), includes many picture postcards of their Mediterranean and European tour.

8 boxes (4 linear feet).

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SNAC Resource ID: 7559220

Peabody Essex Museum

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Bryn Mawr college

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Brown, Charles C.

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Epithet: Captain; RN; of Add MS 38465 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000704.0x0001d5 Resident of Albemarle County, Va. From the description of Papers, 1803-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20574821 ...

Abbot, Walter Lyle.

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Salem High School (Salem, Mass.)

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Zimmerman, Edwin

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Abbot, Edith Doane (Brown), 1887-1978.

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Thomas, Madeline (Abbot)

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...

Abbot, Edith R., 1876-

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Brown, Frank Atherton

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