Materials separated from Diary, 1912/1913

Containers:
Box 1, Folder 9
Scope and content:

Ruth describes a two-month trip (August–October 1912) to California with her mother to visit relatives in San Francisco and Los Angeles, with excursions to numerous other sites and a brief visit with relatives in Winnetka (IL) before returning home. Back in Indianapolis, in addition to routine and social activities, Ruth dances in a play; attends an art class, a current events class, and meetings of a Camp Fire Girls committee and the King's Daughters; teaches a Sunday school class; and gives sewing lessons to five-year-old girls at a settlement house. She gets medical treatments for an unnamed condition, experiences a nervous rave, and has tonsillitis. In June 1913 Ruth visits friends in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and attends graduation and alumnae events at Bradford Academy. In the fall she begins seeing Frank Richards, Fred Shafer, and John Darlington, in addition to other male friends. The main diary is located in Folder 8. In addition to the bound volume (last entry: April 26, 1913), there are separate sheets of lined, three-hole paper, 5 x 8 inches, partially held together by a white ribbon, with entries covering intermittently the period from June 10 through December 1913. This addition is located in Folder 9.

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