Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Diary (Port Mills, Vt.), Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 08/18/2009.

Processing Information

Accessioned and described in August 2009 by Ute Schechter.

Scope and Contents

Diary, 1881, of a young woman of Port Mills, Orange County, Vermont, who seems to have earned her teaching certificate during the spring of 1881. At first she is not able to pursue her teaching profession since she has to take care of her ill mother. She describes learning the millinery trade to that end, but is able to accept a teaching position when her mother's condition improves.Diary entries describe work, visits home, socializing with friends, like playing games, drawing shadow pictures, attending exhibits, etc. as well as occurrences in the village, children in the neighborhood dying of diphtheria.For excerpts from the diary, provided by the seller, see finding aid link below.

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Diaries

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