Elizabeth Dorr diaries, 1835-1859.

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Elizabeth Dorr diaries, 1835-1859.

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Diaries kept by school teacher Elizabeth Dorr of Dorchester (later Boston), Mass. detailing daily life in Dorchester, work as a tutor for Robert Swain on Naushon Island, and travel to New Bedford, Mass., Maine and New Hampshire, 1835-42, 1848-50, 1854-55, 1859. Diaries describe social life on Naushon Island with the Forbes and Endicott families, 1835-36; visiting friends and relatives in Dorchester including the Lemist, Grinnell, Swain, and Russell families, 1836-50; religious observations; travel by steamboat to Maine, 1840; travel by train with Joseph Grinnell, George T. Baker, and Abigail Osgood to New Bedford to visit former students, 1842; and visits to the Worcester Insane Asylum, Hartford School for the Deaf, 1842, and Perkins School for the Blind, 1854. Elizabeth never married and her later diary entries detail her daily life in a boarding house, 1854-55, 1859. Throughout the diaries Elizabeth expresses her interest in gardening and horticulture.

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Swain, Robert, 1823-1844

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Osgood, Abigail.

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Russell family.

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Swain family.

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Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind

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The New England Asylum for the Blind was incorporated in Massachusetts in 1829; it opened in Boston in 1832 as the New England Institution for the Blind. It was sucessively renamed the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind in 1839, the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in 1877, and the Perkins School for the Blind in 1955. The institution relocated in Watertown in 1912. From the description of Annual reports, 1851-1924. (Unknown). WorldCa...

Baker, George T., of Nantucket, Mass.

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Grinnell family.

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Dorr, Elizabeth, 1804-1870

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Grinnell, Joseph, 1788-1885

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Forbes family.

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Endicott family.

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Lemist family.

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American School, at Hartford, for the Deaf

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