Ellen McAlpin notebook and visitors' book, 1882-1913.

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Ellen McAlpin notebook and visitors' book, 1882-1913.

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This collection contains a notebook and visitors' book belonging to Ellen McAlpin. The notebook contains notes on religious philosophy: quotations from scripture, philosophers, prophets, etc. It is dated New York, 1882. In the back of the notebook is a list of callers received and notes on her return visits. The visitors' book is dated 1904-1913 and gives the names, addresses, and comments of her guests. A handwritten poem about guests by O.W. Holmes (Oliver Wendell Holmes), is pasted into the front cover. The poem appears to have been copied by E.M.C., the person who gave McAlpin the book according to its inscription.

1 folder (.05 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

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Holmes (Harvard, M.D. 1836) was Parkman Professor of Anatomy at Harvard Medical School from 1847 to 1882, dean of the Medical School from 1847 to 1853, and a noted essayist and poet. A paper on the contagiousness of puerperal fever, presented at an 1843 meeting of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, was his most famous contribution to medicine. His indictment of physicians for their role in causing and spreading the fever was one of the most controversial treatises of the time...

McAlpin, Ellen, 1856-1934.

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Ellen McAlpin (1856-1934) was born at the Hermitage Plantation, the daughter of Angus McAlpin. She finished her education at Madame Le Fevre's School in Baltimore, Maryland, after which she returned to Savannah. As a young woman she became interested in the work of the Savannah Port Society. She organized and was the first President of the Young Women's Port Sewing Society. She was one of the organizers of the Young Women's Christian Association in Savannah and served on its board for many years...