Skip to main content

Browse Items (3 total)

  • Tags: Harpers

April 9, 1891

This letter contains a typewritten and a handwritten letter, sent at the same time due to a delay. One page of the typewritten letter has a pencil drawing of a bird. The letter describes a trip to the YMCA reading room, weather, a frightening…


January 28, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton describes the cold weather, an ill cat, the arrival of Harpers, ancestral family information, and a discussion of drawing lessons


June 18, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton describes the weather and her Latin examination. She recounts the death of the family cat Pooh-bah. She describes her visit to the reading room, her upcoming commencement, and her search for a job, along with the expectation that…