Box 17

Scope and Contents 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...

Scope and Contents Primarily to Sarah Anna Chace Green, topics include: [cholera in family; tennis] (July 23, 1892); [Abby S. G. Atwater to return to Berlin] (ca. July, 1892); [sister's telephone; cholera in Germany] + (Sept. 8, 1892); [heard Sarah Bernhardt] (Berlin, Oct. 7, 1892); [Richard Atwater in Detroit while Abby is in Berlin] (Nov. 15, 1892); [wants photo of Richard Mead Atwater] (week afterThanksgiving, 1892); [arrival in Syracuse] (June 2, 1893); [family to return to U.S.A.; fear of cholera;...

Scope and Contents Many of the letters are to Atwater's son Kris who has moved out of the house and taken a job. Other topics include: [goes to England as Richard Mead Atwater has Harvester business there; will attend wedding of Dick and Jane in Eng.] (Sept.8, 1894); [account of arrival in Paris to join RMA] (ca. Sept. 1900); [refers to death of daughter Ethel] (Sept. 21, 1900); [appreciation of her mother; has found French easy to master and interested in what they say of the Boer war and Chinese matters as...

Scope and Contents Topics of the correspondence include: may not be able to go to Greece or Constantinople because of war] + (ca. 1901); French queen should have been able to stop the Boer war; Whistler too ill to teach in daughter's class] +(Jan. 23, 1901); [use of photography in copying art work] (Feb. 8, 1901); [French government and politics more corrupt than U.S.] (Mar. 15, 1901); [goes to Bucharest as French and German interpreter for Richard] (May, 1901); [Edward Smith of Germantown visiting as he came...

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Topics of the correspondence include: [separation of her nephew (son of Eliza and Arnold Chace) and his wife] (1903 fragment); [traveling in Italy] (Mar. 19, 1903); [attending a meeting in Berlin where the prince presided]; (written from Chadds Ford, PA, Dec. 21, 1903)

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Notable topic of the correspondence: [news of coming marriage of Dorothy Atwater and Edward Wanton Smith; hopes wedding will be at Birmingham or Germantown MM] (June 3, 1904)

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Notable topic in the correspondence: ["the Germans will rise against the government - & it will cave in. Now we may have new allies - Italy andRoumania..."](Feb. 25, 1915)

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Includes correspondence to Abby S. G. Atwater re: the death of Richard Mead Atwater

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Sarah Anna G Smith notes about Richard Mead Atwater letters; also RMA chronology and definite Quaker references in his papers