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Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1876
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1876
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Comments on current political events. The memoranda at the end includes miscellaneous notes, as well as income and correspondence records.
Date:
1876
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1886
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1886
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail, including her political activism. Wilbur was dismissed from the Patent Office in January 1886 and spent several months unemployed before being rehired in May. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a description of things she saw on a visit to Philadelphia, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.
Date:
1886
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, May 1859 to March 1860
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, May 1859 to March 1860
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Semi-daily entries discuss domestic activities and daily life with a focus on Wilbur's struggle with her widowed brother-in-law Revilo Bigelow over her relationship with her niece Alfreda Bigelow.
Date:
1859-05-26 - 1860-03-06
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, August 1860 to March 1861
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, August 1860 to March 1861
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary.
Date:
1860-08-22 - 1861-03-11
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, March to September 1861
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, March to September 1861
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Describes Frederick Douglass's account of John Brown. Discusses the outbreak of and major events during the Civil War. Documents her daily life.
Date:
1861-03-12 - 1861-09-20
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, May to November 1863
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, May to November 1863
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1863 (mc1158_01_02_002).
Date:
1863-05-14 - 1863-11-19
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, April to June 1862
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, April to June 1862
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary.
Date:
1862-04-15 - 1862-06-22
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1883
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1883
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail. Recurring themes are her work at the Patent Office and attending White House receptions and congressional sessions. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a list of objects she saw at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and various facts and literary extracts.
Date:
1883
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary L. Van Buskirk diary, 1908
Title:
Mary L. Van Buskirk diary, 1908
Description:
Mary L. Van Buskirk was Julia Wilbur's sister. Account of her daily activities between January 1 and June 30, 1908.
Date:
1908
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, October 1867 to September 1868
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, October 1867 to September 1868
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diaries for 1867 and 1868 (mc1158_01_03_002 and mc1158_01_03_003).
Date:
1867-10-02 - 1868-09-05
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1872
Title:
Julia Wilbur pocket diary, 1872
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Actively observed and commented on governmental proceedings in Washington, D.C. Attended congressional sessions, as well as various lectures and social reform meetings.
Date:
1872
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail, including her trips to Providence, New York, and Philadelphia. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her health and her family, her finances for the year, and various facts, sayings, and literary extracts, including an abolitionist poem by James Russell Lowell and a quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Date:
1889
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, November 1862 to May 1863
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, November 1862 to May 1863
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary.
Date:
1862-11-20 - 1863-05-13
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1878
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Centennial" diary, 1878
Description:
Wilbur wrote page-length entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year. Documents her social activities and professional life at the United States Patent Office. Includes income records. Frequently discusses her niece Alfreda Bigelow and sister Frances Hartwell, who lived with her at the time. Attended various lectures and events. Mentions receiving an invitation from Susan B. Anthony to the Rochester Woman's Convention.
Date:
1878
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, September 1857 to May 1859
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, September 1857 to May 1859
Description:
See also Wilbur's journal briefs (mc1158_06_03_001), in which she highlighted significant events recorded in this diary. Semi-daily entries describe Wilbur's daily life; travels; teaching career; participation in the anti-slavery movement, including membership in the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society; attendance at various lectures and meetings on subjects including science, religion, temperance, teaching, abolition, and women's rights; and domestic life and family relationships. Includes several pressed plant specimens.
Date:
1857-09-05 - 1859-05-25
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, October to December 1865
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, October to December 1865
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1865 (mc1158_01_02_004).
Date:
1865-10-01 - 1865-12-31
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, May 1870 to May 1871
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, May 1870 to May 1871
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diaries for 1870 and 1871 (mc1158_01_04_001 and mc1158_01_04_002).
Date:
1870-05-17 - 1871-05-04
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Lady's Almanac", 1857
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Lady's Almanac", 1857
Description:
Wilbur wrote brief, one-line entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year on the "Memoranda" pages of the almanac (pages 19, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 59, 63).
Date:
1857
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur diary, May to September 1865
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, May to September 1865
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1865 (mc1158_01_02_004).
Date:
1865-05-14 - 1865-09-30
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary L. Van Buskirk diary, September 1881
Title:
Mary L. Van Buskirk diary, September 1881
Description:
Detailed account of Van Buskirk's visit to her sisters Julia Wilbur and Francis Hartwell in Washington, D.C., from September 15th to 30th, 1881. About half the book is spent detailing Mount Vernon, which the sisters visited. It also describes in detail the death and funeral of president James A. Garfield, including a speech given by Frederick Douglass. The rest describes visiting various places in Washington and Alexandria, including the Navy Yard, former slave pens, the "colored home for the friendless and orphan children, Howard University, the Capitol, Lafayette Square, Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church, Georgetown, Long Bridge, Oak Hill Cemetery, the Patent Office, the Corcoran Gallery, the Dead Letter Office, Arlington Cemetery, and the National Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. Compare mc1158_02_01_001, Julia Wilbur's diary for 1881, which describes some of the same events.
Date:
1881-09
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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