An account of her interest in genealogy, n.d.

Draft of a letter to her grandson, Rich, in which Mary Sullivan Patterson describes how her mother and two aunts, Mabel and ? encouraged her interest in genealogy. When her husband suffered a heart attack in 1952, Mary took a course in genealogy and worked as a genealogist at Friends Historical Library until 1956 when she decided to focus on her research on 17th century Quakers. Subsequently to her research trip in England in 1957, she became involved with historic preservation and only sporadically did genealogical searches outside her own family's history.