Guide to the Elinor Eugenia Bramhall Diaries

Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries. Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
October 2010
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Overview

Call Number: SC0461
Creator: Bramhall, Elinor Eugenia.
Title: Elinor Eugenia Bramhall diaries
Dates: 1930-1950
Physical Description: 0.25 Linear feet
Summary: Diaries for 1930, 1931, and 1936; entries generally concern her daily activities, her studies at Stanford and elsewhere, and her social life. There are entries in the 1931 volume concerning pledging Delta Delta Delta at Stanford, tea with Prof. Edith Mirrielees, and attending an "at-home" at Prof. Albert L. Guérard's. The 1936 volume, written at Fair Oaks, California, mentions a visit to the former Leland Stanford house in Sacramento and her research project on mental testing; this volume also includes a few entries from 1938-50. There is a fourth volume that contains notes on psychology, written in 1939-40.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc

Administrative Information

Information about Access

This collection is open for research.

Ownership & Copyright

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
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Cite As

Elinor Eugenia Bramhall Diaries (SC0461). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical/Historical Sketch

Bramhall attended Stanford University during the 1930/31 academic year.

Description of the Collection

Diaries for 1930, 1931, and 1936; entries generally concern her daily activities, her studies at Stanford and elsewhere, and her social life. There are entries in the 1931 volume concerning pledging Delta Delta Delta at Stanford, tea with Prof. Edith Mirrielees, and attending an "at-home" at Prof. Albert L. Guérard's. The 1936 volume, written at Fair Oaks, California, mentions a visit to the former Leland Stanford house in Sacramento and her research project on mental testing; this volume also includes a few entries from 1938-50. There is a fourth volume that contains notes on psychology, written in 1939-40.

Access Terms

Bramhall, Elinor Eugenia.
Guérard, Albert Léon, 1880-1959.
Mirrielees, Edith.
Diaries.
Fair Oaks (Calif.) --Social life and customs.
Women--California.


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