Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall
Person
Dates
- Existence: d. 1951
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
M. Carey Thomas Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-RG-1DD2
Scope and Contents
M. Carey Thomas was the first Dean and second President—a title she held for twenty-eight years—of Bryn Mawr College. Thomas’s professional and personal lives were both deeply connected to the College, and she is one of the chief architects of the college post-1894, when she began her tenure as President. Even after her retirement, Thomas continued to live on campus in the home she and her life partner Mary Garrett built, The Deanery. Although Thomas was a proponent of women’s education and...
Dates:
1853 - 1940
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
Hannah Whitall Smith correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-164
Abstract
In these letters to her friend Kate, Hannah Whitall Smith relates news of her family, including Logan Pearsall Smith and Alys Smith Russell, especially regarding Russell’s health, visits from friends, references to Bertrand Russell, Quakers and Quaker Meeting, particularly in Philadelphia, as well as British Women’s Meeting, temperance, living a simple Quaker life, writing of her new book, health issues, and old age.
Dates:
1899-1911, undated
Speer Family papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: BMC-M72
Abstract
The Speer Family papers represent four generations of that family, with the bulk of material attributed to the last two generations, especially Robert Elliott Speer and his wife and three of his five children: Emma Bailey, Elliott, Margaret Bailey, and William Speer. The family was active in the Presbyterian Church, serving that institution in a variety of different capacities. The children, in addition to their religious roles, held prominent positions in academic administration. The...
Dates:
1802 - 1982; Majority of material found within 1883 - 1943
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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- China -- History -- 20th Century 1
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- Chinese Students 1
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- Huntingdon County (Pa.) 1
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- Missions, American 1
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- Murder -- Massachusetts 1
- Northfield (Mass.) 1
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- Pennsylvania -- Politics and Government -- 1865-1950 1
- Phillips Academy 1
- Preparatory schools -- United States 1
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- Public worship -- Society of Friends 1
- Quaker women 1
- Quakers -- Family relationships 1
- Repatriation -- United States 1
- School management and organization -- United States 1
- Schools -- Pennsylvania 1
- Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 1
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- United States -- Politics and government -- 1869-1877 1
- Universities and colleges -- China 1
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- World War, 1914-1918 -- War work -- Young Men's Christian Associations 1
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