Susan Walker FitzGerald Papers

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Susan Walker FitzGerald (1871-1943) was a graduate of Bryn Mawr College class of 1893. During her time at Bryn Mawr, she founded the Self-Government Association (the first student government organization in the nation, which survives today) and served as class president. Following graduation, she worked as secretary to the dean of the College, M. Carey Thomas, from 1893 to 1894; she continued in this role after Thomas became Bryn Mawr's president, from 1894 to 1895. FitzGerald is best known for her long commitment to the struggle for women's suffrage and her involvement in progressive political organizations, including the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government, the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association, and the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). She was elected in 1922 as the first female Democrat to enter the Massachusetts House of Representatives. This collection primarily contains letters from FitzGerald to her parents while she was a student at Bryn Mawr College and letters from fellow students to FitzGerald regarding the formation of the Student Government Association.

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Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, October 13, 1889
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, May 24, 1893
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, September 27, 1893
Letter from Edith Rockwell Hall to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 20, 1891
Letter from Marie L. Minor to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 5, 1891
Letter from Helen W. Thomas to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 16, 1891
Letter from Elizabeth W. Winsor (Pearson) to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, July 15, 1891
Letter from Alice (Gould?) to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 14, 1891
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, February 3, 1891
Letter from Margaret D. Kellum to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 1, 1891
Letter from Helen Robins to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 8, 1891
Letter from A.E. Philbrook to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, July 31, 1891
Letter from Elva Lee to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 26, 1891
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her bother Henry G. Pickering, 1893
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her father, approximately November 1889
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, May 4, 1896
Letter from Harriet Stevenson to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 17, 1891
Letter from Jane L. Brownell to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, August 4, 1892
Letter from Susan Walker Fitzgerald to her mother, approximately November 1889
Letter from Marion S. Taylor to Susan Walker Fitzgerald, September 6, 1891

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