Diary

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 5
Scope and content:

In addition to routine activities, Ruth frets about what school to attend in the fall; observes Halley's comet; spends a month with Uncle Charles, Aunt Louise, and their twin boys in Winnetka, IL; learns to play bridge; and returns to Williamsport to visit a friend. She describes this as "a fairly well kept diary", indicating that she "could have told some things more and more interestingly but this is not a story just record of a few events in a part of year." Bound volume, 5 x 7½ inches, with lined paper; 228 pages.

Access and use

Location of collection:
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Phone: (757) 221-3090
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