Box 5

Diary of milestones of her children

6 small volumes, family and daily activities as her health failed

Pocket diaries. The 1953 was a gift from her daughter, Sarah W. Brinton and includes a partial draft of her reminiscences of Argentina and a snapshot of Eleanor and David Brinton (?) pasted inside cover. Also miscellaneous notes and fragments.

Includes drawings and paintings by Anna Fisher Grimshaw, greeting cards from daughter Eileen, sister Susanna, and brother Henry with wife Hattie; family clippings, published poems by Susanna Fisher; prints, cartoons, and drawings by Eileen Brinton; published stories by William F. Brinton.

Sarah W. Brinton (1902-1997) was the eldest of David and Eleanor Brinton's four children. Two handwritten and illustrated stories written as a child. Also a 1960 note to her brother and sister-in-law, William F. and Louise Brinton, describing her visit to the Moses Brinton farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Mary Eileen Brinton (1904-1995) was the second child. Daily entries which record high and low temperatures, school, family and activities. Volume, in two pieces. Acidic, very fragile and some pages crumbling.

Largely clippings, family and poems, etc., of interest