Journals, 1871 Sept. 3-1874 Dec. 3.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Journals, 1871 Sept. 3-1874 Dec. 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71142217

Journals kept as a high school (Girl's High and Normal School?) student in Boston, recording much about her education, language instruction, reading (including books borrowed from the Athenaeum), social activities, family life, with details of her upbringing in an upper-class household. Includes an eyewitness account of the Great Fire in Boston (1872), the final performance of Christine Nilsson in Boston, and the dedication of Memorial Hall at Harvard. The journals conclude with an extended description of her brother Willy's (William Samuel Eliot) sickness, death, and funeral at Emmanuel Church (1874).

7 v. ; 17 cm.

Boston Athenaeum

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8077587

Related Entities

There are 1 Entities related to this resource.

Morison, Emily Marshall Eliot, 1857-1925.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ff6njn (person)

Daughter of Samuel Eliot; mother of Samuel Eliot Morison. From the description of Journals, 1871 Sept. 3-1874 Dec. 3. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 71142217 Emily Marshall Eliot Morison was the mother of Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, the Harvard University naval historian, and the wife of John Holmes Morison, a lawyer and graduate of Harvard. From the description of Papers, 1874-1883 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007710 ...