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Box 31

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Contains 9 Results:

Esther's childhood diary, 1947-1950

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Loose pages from dated volume

Dates: 1947-1950
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Notes for memoirs and autobiography, 1958-2012

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes an "Autobiography" written for a course at Swarthmore College in 1958, loose notes for memoirs and spiritual autobiography

Dates: 1958-2012
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Journal, 1960

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Loose pages. Esther wrote that she hopes to keep an intermittent journal as a means to reflect and record, not as a daily diary

Dates: 1960
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Vacations, 1963-1984

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Vacation notes, 1963, 1964, 1979, 1980, 1981. Also listing of vacations 1958-1967, rental agreements in Cape May, NJ, 1979-1984, etc.

Dates: 1963-1984
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Diary fragments, 1966

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Written as an assignment for a women's book group discussing creativity

Dates: 1966
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Summer teacher training course in Outdoor Education, 1969

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Held at Tyler Arboretum

Dates: 1969
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Writing course with Elizabeth Gray Vining, 1974

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Pendle Hill

Dates: 1974
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Journal, 1974

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Spiral bound. Explains that when she attended Friends General Conference, she kept separate notes books (small notebooks are filed separately)

Dates: 1974
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings

Friends General Conference workshop on Quaker Journals, 1974

 File — Box: 31
Scope and Contents

Esther took a course on keeping a journal and hoped to start to keep her own. Notes on sessions attended, etc.

Dates: 1974
Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College / Darlington Family Papers / Series 3 Esther Collins Darlington / Sub-series 3-B: Notebooks, journals, writings
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