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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Mary Porter CommonPlace Book

Dates:
1823-1844

Creator:
Porter, Mary

Extent:
1 foot.

Repository::
Claremont Colleges. Library.
1090 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, California 91711

Abstract:
A short biography about Mary Porter was written in her CommonPlace Book in 1844, two years after she died. She was born in 1823 and lived in Lyme, New Hampshire. In 1840, when she turned 17 years of age, she moved to South Hadley, Massachusetts to attend Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. She died of consumption in 1842 in South Hadley, Massachussetts. Several people wrote in Mary Washburn Porter's CommonPlace Book during her life and after she died. The CommonPlace Book has quotations from the people she knew in Lyme, New Hampshire as well as from the young girls she met at Mount Holyoke. The book contains letters and notes to Mary Porter. Many of the inscriptions are religious quotes from teachers, acquaintances, and her classmates at Mount Holyoke. There are pencil drawings and pieces of ephemera inserted inside the book.

Collection Number:
d2008.1.ead

Languages:
Languages represented in the collection: English

Physical Location:
Ella Strong Denison Library, Scripps College, Claremont University Consortium.

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