College Women

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College Women was a consortial project of the libraries and archives of the institutions formerly known as the Seven Sisters. The project began in the spring of 2014 with a Foundations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support the development of an online portal, which continues to be accessible at https://collegewomen.org. This collection includes diaries and letters of several Bryn Mawr College alumnae/i originating from several personal paper collections held in the Bryn Mawr College Special Collections.

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Letter from Susan FitzGerald to her mother, approximately October 1928
Title:
Letter from Susan FitzGerald to her mother, approximately October 1928
Description:
Susan FitzGerald thanks her mother and family for gifts received and writes about her health, classes, and exams.
Date:
(approximate) 1928-10
Collection:
Susan FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, October 10, 1917
Title:
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, 1917
Description:
A short letter in which Marie announces that she got a job at the library, which she finds very easy, providing her time to study. She is happy with her English reader and is anxiously awaiting her German exam.
Collection:
Marie Litzinger Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, January 26, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about studying, exams, and reading.
Date:
1919-01-26
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, June 7, 1918
Title:
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, 1918
Description:
On her way home, Marie makes a stop in Harrisburg to visit her aunts and grandmother. She also writes about her exam results and the commencement ceremony.
Collection:
Marie Litzinger Papers
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, May 11, 1919
Title:
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, 1919
Description:
Marie describes the Glee Club's performance of the Pirates of Penzance, which was visited by her friend Frieda. Examinations are picking up pace, and Marie cannot wait for summer vacation.
Collection:
Marie Litzinger Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, January 25, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about her examinations, study habits, and plans to travel to New York during an upcoming break. She thanks her mother for sending a stuffed animal, but decides to send it back.
Date:
1917-01-25
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her aunt, January 23, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her aunt, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about preparing for her midyear examinations, and of a rather difficult time she had at her gym class.
Date:
1917-01-23
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, February 04, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about the death of one of the family cats, her grades, and how she is spending her vacation.
Date:
1919-02-04
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, March 20, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about grades, classes, meetings, and sends her mother poetry.
Date:
1919-03-20
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, May 29, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1917
Description:
Gookin tells her mother that she is all packed to go home, and of studying for exams.
Date:
1917-05-29
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, May 07, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about exams.
Date:
1919-05-07
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, October 26, 1918
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1918
Description:
Gookin writes about exam grades and making posters.
Date:
1918-10-26
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, January 26-27, 1920
Title:
Letter from Marie Litzinger to her parents, 1920
Description:
Marie thanks her family for the letters and gifts they sent to support her during midyear exams. She plans her upcoming trip home, but writes a second letter the next day informing her family that the College has put the students under quarantine, so she may need to reconsider her plans.
Collection:
Marie Litzinger Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, January 29, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about finances, midyear exams, a new scheme to raise money for the endowment fund, and of travel plans for the upcoming break.
Date:
1917-01-29
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, October 26, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about exams, and about her day.
Date:
1919-10-26
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her aunt, May 29, 1918
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her aunt, 1918
Description:
Gookin writes about studying for exams and playing tennis.
Date:
1918-05-29
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, February 06, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes to her father after arriving back at Bryn Mawr, thanking him and her family for gifts received. She also writes of the grades that she received on her midyear exams, and of how she spent the rest of her time in New York.
Date:
1917-02-06
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Susan FitzGerald to her father, January 24, 1929
Title:
Letter from Susan FitzGerald to her father, 1929
Description:
Susan FitzGerald writes to her father about an outbreak of the flu and about exams.
Date:
1929-01-24
Collection:
Susan FitzGerald Papers, 1918 Pandemic at Bryn Mawr College
Letter from Helen Calder Robertson to her family, October 15, 1915
Title:
Letter from Helen Calder Robertson to her family, 1915
Description:
Helen is getting ready for her German orals and is sharing a few anecdotes of campus life.
Date:
1915-10-15
Collection:
Helen Calder Robertson Letters
Letter from Dorothy Foster to her mother, December 7, 1902
Title:
Letter from Dorothy Foster to her mother, 1902
Description:
In her letter to mother Dorothy tells her how she is looking forward to the upcoming Christmas vacation and is worried about making presents for her friends as her family cannot afford buying them. She writes that the Senior class is very worried about Oral examinations and that the rest of the students sang to them to cheer them up. Dorothy is very tired and is looking forward to the break.
Date:
1902-12-07
Collection:
Dorothy Foster Papers

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