Box 16

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Topics of the correspondence include: Bryn Mawr inauguration and seeing Charles Roberts, hearing Haverford Pres. Thomas Chase; looking over Roberts' letters and old books] (Fall, 1880); [temperance vote passed at Richard Mead Atwater's Institute] (3/10/1882); [have begun a Friends Meeting with most members Hicksite] (Feb. 3, 1882)

Scope and Contents Topics of the correspondence include: [on voting on a Rhode Island property bill] (ca. 1883 or 1884) +; [mentions visit of (John) Sartain] (June?,1883); [Miss Tolman offers to adopt baby Marjory] (Oct. 2, 1883 [business matters, including mill in which brother Will worked and apparently managed by brother-in-law Arnold Chace] (Nov.? 1883); [temperance group meeting] (Feb. 11, 18484); [studying German] (May 11, 1884); [political comments about Democratic Party, candidates Blaine and Prescott...

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Notable topics of the correspondence include: [sorry suffrage movement did not succeed, but would have voted, had women been ready for it] (April 12,1887); [Sophie studying at Bryn Mawr College; Sophie and Ethel living in Bryn Mawr with chaperone]

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Topics in the correspondence include: [children growing up; their seamstress returning to work at Elwyn Institute] (1888); [many mentions of family photographs being taken; two Indigenous American girls from Carlisle Indian School working for them in the summer] + (June 11, 1888); [Sophie unhappy and lonely - maybe needs a "mind cure"] (Dec. 2, 1888). At the end of folder is manuscript chart showing family members' locations from 1867-1909)

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Sarah A.G. Smith's notes on various people in the collection (including genealogies)

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A set of notecards and correspondence related to the Atwater Smith papers in this HCMC and other institutions

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Correspondence from Abby S. G. Atwater to others and secondary source notes on the correspondence written by Sarah A. G. Smith

Scope and Contents 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);...