India

Scope and Contents Letters written by Ann Taylor Updegraff Allen to her family from the 1920s to the 1950s (folders divided by decade). The letters follow her through boarding school (the Kodaikanal School for Missionaries' Children, Highclerc Campus, as well as schools in England and Switzerland) to Bryn Mawr College, from where she graduated in 1942. Ann was the third child of David Benjamin Updegraff and Melanie Atherton Updegraff, following David Dirick (1919-1920), who died in infancy, and Melanie Parke...

Abstract Melanie Atherton Updegraff (1886-1973) was a 1908 graduate of Bryn Mawr who went on to do missionary work for the Presbyterian Mission Board alongside her husband, Reverend David Benjamin Updegraff. The two were primarily stationed in Kolhapur and later Nipani, in West India. The collection includes correspondence between Updegraff and her sisters, children, and sister-in-law, among other family members, photographs of the Atherton and Updegraff families, an autograph collection, and...