Mary Meigs Atwater letter to H.G. Merriam, 1936 Feb. 5.

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Mary Meigs Atwater letter to H.G. Merriam, 1936 Feb. 5.

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In early 1936 Mary Atwater was contacted by Harold Guy Merriam, an English professor at Montana State University in Missoula, for information on her weaving school. Merriam had been appointed state supervisor of the Federal Writers' Project and his work would culminate in the publication of Montana, A State Guide Book in 1939. Atwater responded to Merriam's request by providing this detailed four page typewritten letter describing her guild, her weaving correspondence courses, her promotion of weaving for therapeutic work in rehabilitation and mental hospitals, and some personal information on her family.

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library

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