Letters home, February 1919

The twenty third folder in the Natalie Gookin papers contains letters written every day in correspondence between Bryn Mawr college junior Natalie Gookin and her family in Chicago during February 1919. These letters have been arranged chronologically according to the date that they were written. In her letters, Natalie’s intimate and close relationship with her parents is evident from the amount of details and discussion that she reveals to them. Her letters switch from pen and paper to being entirely typewritten as she writes about her classes, work load, professors, friends, and the various events in the Bryn Mawr community. She expresses her joy and pride in becoming a member of both the French and English clubs in addition to hosting innumerable discussions on the books, philosophy, and religion that she encounters in her classes. These letters would be of interest to anyone studying women’s colleges, women’s education, student life, and home relationships.