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Scope and Contents 431 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing significant events in detail, including her political activism. Wilbur was dismissed from the Patent Office in January 1886 and spent several months unemployed before being rehired in May. The memoranda at the end include a reflection on the year as a whole, a summary of the state of her family, a description of things she saw on a visit to Philadelphia, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.Subjects:...

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392 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family and various facts, figures, and literary extracts,

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); Alexandria (Va.);

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392 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family, her expenses for the year, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.)

Scope and Contents 432 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail, including her trips to Providence, New York, and Philadelphia. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her health and her family, her finances for the year, and various facts, sayings, and literary extracts, including an abolitionist poem by James Russell Lowell and a quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton.Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; SickRelevant...

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429 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. Of note are her vacation in New York and her sister Frances’s illness. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family, her finances, various facts, figures, sayings, literary extracts, and other miscellany.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); New York (N.Y.); Lockport (N.Y.); Rochester (N.Y.)

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442 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include an account of her sister Angeline Van Wagoner’s death, a summary of the state of her family and her finances, and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); New York (N.Y.); Hudson (N.Y.); Rochester (N.Y.); Michigan

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431 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family and her finances as well as various facts, figures, sayings, and literary extracts.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); New York (N.Y.)

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433 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her family and her finances as well as various facts, figures, sayings, and literary extracts.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); New York (N.Y.); Hudson (N.Y.); Rochester (N.Y.); Lockport (N.Y.)

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430 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail. Memoranda at the back include a summary of her finances and various facts, figures, and literary extracts.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); Rochester (N.Y.); Lockport (N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)

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136 pages. Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing her activities in detail. Frequently describes medical treatments and attending women’s suffrage councils.

Subjects: Women--Diaries; Women in the civil service; Sick; Electricity in medicine; Women--Suffrage

Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.)