Diaries, notebooks, and ledgers. 1875-1913.

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Churchill, Nancy Peirce, 1839-1913. Diaries, notebooks, and ledgers.

Diaries, notebooks, and ledgers. 1875-1913.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/711691807

Nancy Churchill lived in New Bedford, Masssachusetts and was married twice, to Stephen Aiken and later to Samuel Churchill. She had 2 children from the first marriage, Eddie and Emmie. Her role is as the matriarch, providing emotional and financial support, especially to her grandchildren. She appears to own rental property, also taught music lessons. Her writing is lively, emotional, and witty. One of the notebooks includes many clippings of Robert Ingersoll, a noted Freethinker. Her own and her husband's poems are included in the notebooks. The 6 diaries date from May 1879 to October 1913. The 4 notebooks Include clippings, handwritten extracts from books, notes, poems, copies of a few of her letters, and accounting ledgers. Laid into one of the notebooks is a letter to Emmie, complaining about family, but witty, dated Jan. 10, 1910.

10 v. ; 21-38 cm.

University of Wisconsin - Madison, General Library System