Letters of Abby Sophia Greene Atwater, 1889-1891

Topics of the correspondence includes: [attends dancing class, on marriage: better early, as a safeguard, "best to grow up with the man one means to grow old with"] ((Feb. 1, 1889); [can only get tintype photograph; modes of transport] (July 12 1889); [ move to house in Germantown; son had typhoid] (Sept. 6, 1889); [packing to leave for Germany] (Aug. 20,1890); [discusses potential for her daughter to make a career in translation work; women ought to marry; agrees there is no reason why women should bear all the burden of homemaking when expected, like men, to make a living] (ca. 1891); from Berlin (June 19, 1891)