Series 4: Mary Frances Goodwin (1883-1973) Papers
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Scope and Contents Papers of Mary Frances Goodwin, daughter of Rev. Edward Lewis Goodwin and researcher for Colonial Williamsburg. Includes letters to and from her family and friends while working as part of the American Expeditionary Forces for the YMCA in France at the end of World War I. She worked in canteens in internment camps and later as a bookkeeper for the 82nd Division. A few later letters deal mostly with family matters. Transcripts of correspondence between Dr. W. A. R. Goodwin's Office and Mary F. Goodwin during the discovery of the Bodleian Plate in England. Typed rough draft "Researching in England, 1929-1930" describing the history of the Bodleian Plate and the search to find it.
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