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January 8, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton writes an account of recent events, including social interactions, her school report, and a missing cat.


March 26, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton describes her school work, commiserates with her father about broken watches, discusses her grandmother's scrapbook and poetry. A penciled postscript explains the use of a certain type of envelope for the letters.


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…


May 21, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton provides meta-commentary on the letter throughout and the typewriter issues she was having. She describes a Lal Bagh meeting, her grades, the weather, cleaning the attic, playing croquet, church and Sunday school, and a lost watch…


August 12, 1891

Mary Leslie Newton wrote a short letter to her father describing the results of her examination — an average of 83 that she notes is passing but disappointing. She observes that due to her "unlucky age" (17 at the time of writing), she was unable to…