Letters of Eliza Greene Chace, 1867-1923

The letters are primarily to her mother, Sarah Greene, sister Abby S. G. Atwater, and brother-in-law Richard Mead Atwater. Around 1901 Greene is married and takes Chace name. Including: Valley Falls, Dec. 28, 1875 [seeing constant stream of poor women, out of work, no food,...little children and husbands."]; Valley Falls, July18, 1881 [seeing Mr. Alcott at a lecture]; 6 nos. of the ms. The Rhynland Daily: a Sea Journal, written in Sept. - Oct. 1892.Nov.-Dec. 3, 1901 [Billy Greene gets Rhodes scholarship]; June 13,1922 [Reference to Vaughan Williams staying at Chadds Ford with the Atwaters; Eliza Green Chace's health declines and she suffers from melancholia] Also includes many sketches in pen/ink, particularly of women