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Letters, Freshman Year Semester I, 1917 December-1918 January

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents These letters would be useful to researchers interested in the topics of illness, the home front during World War I, and jazz dancing. Henrietta often mentions how she feels “off” and discusses the extensive amount of people during the semester who were taken to the college infirmary. Many of these patients reportedly had measles and tonsillitis, and Henrietta even mentions one girl being taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital for a burst appendix. She writes to her mother that she is lucky she has...
Dates: 1917 December-1918 January