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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 Margaret Dudley to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, July 18, 1891
Title:
Letter from Margaret Dudley to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Dudley writes of her approval of FitzGerald's plan to form a student government.
Date:
1891-07-18
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Frederick Gookin to his wife, August 04, 1917
Title:
Letter from Frederick Gookin to his wife, 1917
Description:
Mr. Gookin writes to his wife about time spent at Longs Peak Inn.
Date:
1917-08-04
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Emma Doll Bailey to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, July 30, 1891
Title:
Letter from Emma Doll Bailey to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Bailey responds to FitzGerald's letter regarding her call to form a student government.
Date:
1891-07-30
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Anne Greene to her father, November 19, 1902
Title:
Letter from Anne Greene to her father, 1902
Description:
In this letter to her father, Greene writes about attending a lecture on Bayreuth and Wagner's operas; Nibelungenlied and Parsifal, wherein she also saw some scenes and music. She discusses what she learned from the lecture, and asks if they can go to Germany.
Date:
1902-11-19
Collection:
Anne D. Greene Bates Papers
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her father, November 25, 1889
Title:
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her father, 1889
Description:
FitzGerald writes about traditional entertainment given by the students at Bryn Mawr College. The letter is incomplete.
Date:
1889-11-25
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter to Anne Greene from Louise, October 12, 1903
Title:
Letter to Anne Greene from Louise, 1903
Description:
This lengthy letter to Greene from Louise (presumably Louise Lewis, a friend mentioned several times in other letters) details the goings-on at Bryn Mawr. She discusses the Freshman Play and friendships between upper and lowerclassmen. After her sophomore year, Anne Greene transferred to Barnard College, but retained her friendships at Bryn Mawr, as this letter evidences.
Date:
1903-10-12
Collection:
Anne D. Greene Bates Papers
Letter from Emma Atkins to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, approximately 1891
Title:
Letter from Emma Atkins to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, approximately 1891
Description:
Atkins responds to FitzGerald's letter regarding the formation of a student government.
Date:
(approximate)1891
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Anne Greene to her mother, May 6, 1903
Title:
Letter from Anne Greene to her mother, 1903
Description:
Greene recounts the play she performed in to her mother.
Date:
1903-05-06
Collection:
Anne D. Greene Bates Papers
Letter from Bertha H. Putnam to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 15, 1891
Title:
Letter from Bertha H. Putnam to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Putnam responds to FitzGerald's missive on forming a student government.
Date:
1891-08-15
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Lucy Martin Donnelly to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 18, 1891
Title:
Letter from Lucy Martin Donnelly to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Donnelly responds to FitzGerald's letter regarding the formation of a student government, offering a suggestion about the implementation of her plan.
Date:
1891-09-18
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter to Mary Worthington from M. Carey Thomas, November 5, 1911
Title:
Letter to Mary Worthington from M. Carey Thomas, 1911
Description:
M. Carey Thomas writes to her neice, Mary Worthington, regarding planned visits from family members while Mary is home from school recovering from her illness.
Date:
1911-11-05
Collection:
Mary Whitall Worthington Papers, In Her Own Right, Bryn Mawr College
Mary Worthington diary, 1909-1910
Title:
Mary Worthington diary, 1909-1910
Description:
Mary Whitall Worthington's diary from around the time of her senior year at Bryn Mawr College, 1909-1910. The diary begins with a description of Miss Worthington's summer vacation in which she goes first to Baltimore to visit with family and friends, and then to New York before sailing to Europe on board the RMS Lusitania. In England, she attends a number of parties and social engagements and makes new friends. She goes to the World's Student Christian Federation Meeting in Oxford and is moved by the religious devotion she witnesses. Worthington is particularly interested in the suffrage movement, and while in England she has tea with Inez and Vida Milholland. They attend a "suffragette raid" on the House of Commons together, and Miss Worthington gives a detailed description of the demonstration and includes newspaper clippings with her own thoughts. Later in the year, when Emmeline Pankhurst gives a lecture at the Merion Cricket Club and tours Bryn Mawr, Worthington is able to speak with her about the movement and privately marvel that she dressed in purple, white, and green -- suffragette colors. This diary is filled with Miss Worthington's high praise of her friends, descriptions of hockey games, club lectures, play and glee club rehearsals, and traditions such as rush night, Lantern Night, May Day (for which she was elected the May Queen), and bonfire night. Throughout her diary, Miss Worthington talks about her relatives, in particular her aunt, M. Carey Thomas. She also includes programs from events, exam questions, drawings and photographs, and letters from family members. Miss Worthington also includes an index of topics she discusses at the back of the diary.
Date:
1909 - (approximate)1910
Collection:
Mary Whitall Worthington Papers, In Her Own Right, Bryn Mawr College
Letter from Anne Greene to her mother, March 4, 1903
Title:
Letter from Anne Greene to her mother, 1903
Description:
In this letter to her mother, Greene writes about her schoolwork, hearing from the “Lantern, †and her friend debuting into society. She also writes about her approaching transfer to Barnard, and looking at the Barnard catalogue.
Date:
1903-03-04
Collection:
Anne D. Greene Bates Papers
Notes from the Bryn Mawr College Equal Suffrage League chapter, 1910
Title:
Notes from the Bryn Mawr College Equal Suffrage League chapter, 1910
Date:
1910
Collection:
Mary Whitall Worthington Papers, In Her Own Right, Bryn Mawr College
Letter from Agnes Mary Whiting to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 20, 1891
Title:
Letter from Agnes Mary Whiting to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Whiting responds to FitzGerald's letter regarding the formation of a student government.
Date:
1891-08-20
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Frederick Gookin to his wife, September 23, 1919
Title:
Letter from Frederick Gookin to his wife, 1919
Description:
Frederick Gookin writes of traveling by train.
Date:
1919-09-23
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Mary Worthington partial diary entry, approximately 1906
Title:
Mary Worthington partial diary entry, approximately 1906
Description:
Partial loose-leaf diary entry by Mary Worthington, undated. Mary mentions visiting with her Aunt M. Carey Thomas and Miss Garrett.
Date:
(approximate)1906
Collection:
Mary Whitall Worthington Papers, In Her Own Right, Bryn Mawr College
Letter from Lilian Sampson (Morgan) from Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 2, 1891
Title:
Letter from Lilian Sampson (Morgan) from Susan Walker Fitzgerald, 1891
Description:
Sampson writes regarding FitzGerald's call for the formation of a student government.
Date:
1891-09-02
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, September 25, 1893
Title:
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, 1893
Description:
FitzGerald writes a brief note after her first day of work as secretary for M. Carey Thomas.
Date:
1893-09-25
Collection:
Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers
A list of books read by Mary Worthington, June-October 1910
Title:
A list of books read by Mary Worthington, June-October 1910
Date:
1910
Collection:
Mary Whitall Worthington Papers, In Her Own Right, Bryn Mawr College

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