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Contains 28 Results:
Letters, Junior Year, Semester II & Summer , 1920 May-September
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
This file covers the second part of Henrietta’s spring semester and the summer between junior and senior year is filled with adventures at Eaglesmere and New Lisbon. She also develops her relationship with the Haverford boys.
She goes to a house party in her spring semester, staying in a cabin on the North Branch Rancocas River near New Lisbon. Henrietta goes into further detail about her relationships with the boys from Haverford; Morris, Gil, Bob, and Tom. She notes the sadness...
Dates:
1920 May-September
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters, Senior Year, Semester I, 1920 September-1921 November
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
This folder begins Henrietta’s first semester of senior year. She discusses her courses for this semester, her developing relationship with Jim and Tom, and her thoughts on marriage and children.
Henrietta’s courses reflect her decided major of Psychology, taking Social and Group Psychology, as well as other classes including Greek Sculpture, Italian Renaissance Painting, Gothic Architecture, and Biblical Literature – New Testament Biography.
These letters emphasize...
Dates:
1920 September-1921 November
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters, Senior Year, Semester I , 1920 November-1921 February
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
This folder contains letters from the first semester of her senior year. The major themes of this file are the events at Bryn Mawr, Henrietta’s relationships with Tom and Jim, and some health issues.
Henrietta attends many events over her senior year, including the senior reception to the freshman, the college Christmas party, and President Thomas’s receptions.
Henrietta further describes her relationship with Tom, with whom she is quite infatuated, and Jim, who remains adoring...
Dates:
1920 November-1921 February
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters, Senior Year, Semester II, 1921 February-April
File — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents
This file discusses the first part of Henrietta’s second semester of her senior year. The topics of these letters include the scarlet fever epidemic, Henrietta’s health struggles, and her personal relationships.
These letters illuminate the impact of the scarlet fever epidemic at college. Since the college was under quarantine during the first half of this semester, Henrietta was unable to go dancing, enter any hotels or shops. She did, however, attend a conference on “Clinical...
Dates:
1921 February-April
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters, Senior Year, Semester II , 1921 April-May
File — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents
This is the last file containing letters during Henrietta’s academic career at Bryn Mawr. She discusses in these letters her senior graduation plans, her deteriorating relationship with Jim, and her growing romantic interests in Tom, the graduation presents she received from people, and her visit to the State Penitentiary in Philadelphia.
Henrietta describes the end-of-senior-year activities in depth, such as the Junior-Senior supper, the Senior Bonfire celebration, a luncheon hosted by...
Dates:
1921 April-May
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters, Summer After Graduation, 1921 July
File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents
After her graduation in 1921, Henrietta spent the summer in Eaglesmere, Pennsylvania with Tom McConnell’s family and a few other friends. Henrietta’s secret engagement to Tom features prominently in these letters. Notably, Henrietta goes on a date with another man, saying that it is “a part of our camouflage.” Since Henrietta married Pierrepont E. Sperry in 1929, it can be assumed that the engagement between Tom and Henrietta was broken off.
These letters also describe the...
Dates:
1921 July
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters from Sheldon Clarke to Henrietta Baldwin , 1917 December-1918 February
File — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Dates:
1917 December-1918 February
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters from Sheldon Clarke to Henrietta Baldwin , 1918 March-May
File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Dates:
1918 March-May
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters from Sheldon Clarke to Henrietta Baldwin, 1918 May-August
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
Dates:
1918 May-August
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
Letters from Sheldon Clarke to Henrietta Baldwin , 1918 September-November
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
Dates:
1918 September-November
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
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Henrietta Baldwin Sperry papers
