Letters of Abby Sophia Greene Atwater, 1868-1879

Topics of the correspondence include: family life - clothes, food, children, health, servants, Richard Mead Atwater attendance at Quaker Meetings, Richard Mead Atwater at factory, Bank Directors' dinner, Superintendent of Schools (spring, 1872); [their Christmas celebration compared to Eliza's, theater] (spring, 1870); [aggravated that women "overridden" by men] + (spring, 1870); [gives music lessons] (1872); [child care] (1872 or 1873); [lengthy exposition on her mother] (May or June 1875); hears Samuel Wadsworth Longfellow in Germantown and speaks to him about libraries, naming her favorite books and those of which she disapproves] (1879)