Manuscript women’s letters and diaries

Previously unpublished letters and diaries of women of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century. “The women wrote from the many places throughout the U.S. in which they lived, traveled, worked, studied, and observed the lives and historical events around them–including John Brown’s raid; the activities of the Ku Klux Klan; numerous wars; experiences in a Colorado mining camp, through Nancy Colburn Hartford’s log of her time there; frontier conditions in Florida in 1830, as lived and described by Julia Ann Draper Lazelle; World War I Army training camps and the American Expeditionary Forces in France, through Lizzie Bliss Dewey’s correspondence with friends in service; charitable work in the South, documented by the Chase sisters’ writings of their experiences.”

ERC: Sarah Witte
Access: IP