Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16250, Linda Louisa Cousins diary, Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from Frank Gilliam Rare Books by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on November 2, 2016.

Biographical / Historical

Louisa Cousins was the seventh child of Thomas Jefferson Cousins (1832-1897) and his wife Rosa Ann Elizabeth Catherine Traylor (1851-1947). Her mother remarried Herman Christian Groot, a German emigrant and the family was fairly affluent. She may be attending business school and uses short hand in the diary.

Scope and Contents

Linda Louisa Cousins diary, 1912-1914, 0.03 cubic feet, with daily notations about the weather, her work cleaning houses and her hobbies crocheting, and writing letters. One entry notes that she attended " a colored commencement."