Gooch family diaries Gooch family diaries MSS 16336

Gooch family diaries MSS 16336

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
URL: https://small.library.virginia.edu/

Ellen Welch

Repository

Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library

Identification

MSS 16336

Title

Gooch family diaries 1909, 1910, 1911, 1918, 1949, 1950, 1958, 1961, and 1963.

URL:

https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/457

Quantity

.07 Cubic Feet, One document box and one half-size document box.

Language

English .

Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation

MSS 16336, Gooch family diaries, Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

This collection was purchased from The Book Broker by the Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia on November 7, 2016.

Gooch family diaries, 1909-1963 (not consecutive), .07 cubic feet, consists of fifteen diaries, some from Ellen Brooks (Aunt of Uly Harrison Gooch) when she was a young girl. She describes her work as a nurse (treating a man with face cancer) at the Earl Hopkins Institute in Washington D. C. and missing her family, and friends. The later diaries are from Uly Harrison Gooch while he was a student at St. Paul's School in Baltimore, MD. It is not clear who the last diary is from but it seems to be someone in the family as she is mostly taking care of Uly's Aunt Clara G. Brooks and Clara's husband Uly T. Brooks.

Arrangement

Gooch family diaries, .07 cubic feet, are arranged chronologically. The published dates of the commercial bound diaries are sometimes mislabeled, for example 1931 is really 1909 and 1928 is really 1909.

Container List

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 1

Ellen Brooks diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1909English.

Scope and Contents

Ellen Brooks diary, 1909, .03 cubic feet, describes daily events with her family and friends in Arkendale, Va. and her work as a nurse in Washington D. C.

Biographical / Historical

Ellen Brooks (Uly Harrison Gooch's aunt through being the sister of his mother Agnes Gooch) was born in [1891], trained as a nurse at the "Hospital Retreat for Sick" and cared for Mr. Hoxall for two years in Middleburg who had [face cancer].

According to a diary entry on the last page of Uly Harrison Gooch diary, his Aunt Ellen then cared for a patient in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and back home in Stafford County, Virginia where she lived with her mother.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 2

Ellen Brooks diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1910English.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 3

Ellen Brooks diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1911English.

Scope and Contents

[Ellen Brooks] diary as a young woman describing her girlhood and her boy friends.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 4

Ellen Brooks diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1918English.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 5

Uly Harrison Gooch diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1949English.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 6

Uly Harrison Gooch diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1950 January-March 26English.

Mixed Materials [X031589436] box: 1 folder: 7

Uly Harrison Gooch diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1950 March 27 - June 29English.

Mixed Materials [X031589437] box: 2 folder: 1

Uly Harrison Gooch diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a document box.

1950 June 30 - 1951 January 1English.

Mixed Materials [X031589437] box: 2 folder: 2

Uly Harrison Gooch diaries

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a half-size document box.

1958; 1961English.

Scope and Contents

Datebook with appointments

Mixed Materials [X031589437] box: 2 folder: 3

[Gooch] diary

.03 Cubic Feet One folder in a half-size document box.

1963English.

Scope and Contents

Writer unknown but the content is about taking care of Clara G. Brooks who is losing her foot to infection and dies of a heart attack after several surgeries in 1963. The writer is female, buys antiques often, has her own chores as well as caring for Clara and Uly and their daughter Jane who is in college, and spends most of her time with Agnes Gooch and other Gooch family members.