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Elizabeth Albee Brooks Diary

.03 Cubic Feet 1 letter folder

This collection contains the diary of Elizabeth Albee Brooks (1828-1869) from 1865. Brooks was an artist in training who lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The diary has an inscription in the front endpaper that reads "With many happy new years from her loving Auntie. Medford." The diary contains 124 entries handwritten in pencil graphite. It documents and gives insights into the experiences of adult, single women in suburban Northern communities as the Civil War came to a close. The diary documents her life, the resumption of art classes, notes of appointments with friends to attend performances, exhibits, and lectures, and grappling with a decision to travel to California with her brother Charlie or not. She notes friends having babies, losing husbands to the war. She also notes her travel which increases with the end of the war. Which includes trips to Boston, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island. Notable events in her diary include attending the Unitarian Convention of 1865 and the assassination of President Lincoln which she notes on April 15, which marked significant changes for her personally and nationally.

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Elizabeth Albee Brooks Diary .03 Cubic Feet 1 letter folder

Whitmore Rare Books

This collection contains the diary of Elizabeth Albee Brooks (1828-1869) from 1865. Brooks was an artist in training who lived in Medford, Massachusetts. The diary has an inscription in the front endpaper that reads "With many happy new years from her loving Auntie. Medford." The diary contains 124 entries handwritten in pencil graphite. It documents and gives insights into the experiences of adult, single women in suburban Northern communities as the Civil War came to a close. The diary documents her life, the resumption of art classes, notes of appointments with friends to attend performances, exhibits, and lectures, and grappling with a decision to travel to California with her brother Charlie or not. She notes friends having babies, losing husbands to the war. She also notes her travel which increases with the end of the war. Which includes trips to Boston, New York, and Newport, Rhode Island. Notable events in her diary include attending the Unitarian Convention of 1865 and the assassination of President Lincoln which she notes on April 15, which marked significant changes for her personally and nationally.

University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building.

7.5 Cubic Feet 12 document boxes, 2 os boxes and 1 cubic box

The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building is an artificial collection and periodic additions are expected.

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Louisa J. Pratt pocket diary (Addition 35) 2024-0058 0.04 Cubic Feet One legal size folder Box 10, Folder 4

This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a small pocket diary with ownership signature of "Louisa J. Pratt, New Paltz Landing, New York to front endpaper with an early 20th-century hand adding to pastedown and endpaper, "born 1846" and "13 years old."

  1. Series 2. 1800-1971

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