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 Dorothy Foster to her mother, January 10, 1904
Title:
Letter from Dorothy Foster to her mother, 1904
Description:
Campus is slowly returning back to work, but the students are still mostly preoccupied with the recent vacation.
Date:
1904-01-10
Collection:
Dorothy Foster Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 24, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about the last day of her vacation in Boston, and about being back at Bryn Mawr College.
Date:
1919-04-24
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, December 12, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about knitting, and of going home for Christmas break.
Date:
1917-12-12
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, November 26, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about her day, and preparations for Thanksgiving break.
Date:
1919-11-26
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 mother, March 21, 1929
Title:
Letter from Susan FitzGerald to her mother, 1929
Description:
Susan FitzGerald writes to her mother about coming home for break.
Date:
1929-03-21
Collection:
Susan FitzGerald Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, January 21, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1920
Description:
Gookin writes about plans for the summer, and about studying for exams.
Date:
1920-01-21
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
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 Nathalie Gookin to her mother, February 18, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1920
Description:
Gookin writes about inviting friends to visit her in Chicago during the summer.
Date:
1920-02-18
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, December 15, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about her plans for Christmas break. She also expresses sympathy for a pair of sisters who must stay at Bryn Mawr over the holiday while their father is overseas in the War, and writes about studying.
Date:
1917-12-15
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, May 28, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about exams, professors, and of preparing to go home for vacation.
Date:
1919-05-28
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 07, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about sending laundry home, and about clothing for vacation.
Date:
1919-04-07
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 04, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about Easter cards, and about Easter vacation.
Date:
1919-04-04
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, December 08, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about plans for Christmas break, and about homework and studying.
Date:
1919-12-08
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, February 21, 1918
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1918
Description:
Gookin thanks her mother for sending a book, and writes about the plans her friends have for Easter break.
Date:
1918-02-21
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 26, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about a class circus/play, studying, and about her vacation in Boston.
Date:
1919-04-26
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, March 23, 1917
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, 1917
Description:
Gookin writes about schoolwork, travel plans, and of the possibility of having to do schoolwork while home during Easter break. She also writes of her friend's illness, and of things she wants to do while on vacation.
Date:
1917-03-23
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, December 11, 1918
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, 1918
Description:
Gookin writes about travel plans for Christmas vacation.
Date:
1918-12-11
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, April 21, 1919
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her mother, 1919
Description:
Gookin writes about her day.
Date:
1919-04-21
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, January 23, 1920
Title:
Letter from Nathalie Gookin to her father, 1920
Description:
Gookin writes about preparing for the end of the semester.
Date:
1920-01-23
Collection:
Nathalie Gookin Papers

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