Portland Maine Girl's Diary, 1838 - 1841
Scope and Contents
A homemade notebook containing a diary apparently belonging to a young woman resident on a farm outside of Portland, Maine. The contents, covering January 1st, 1838 to February 17th, 1841, most relate to observations about the weather, visitors, trips, and the details of daily life ranging from births and death to blueberrying with friends. Mentions of going “to meeting” on the Sabbath suggest this may be a Quaker family. In the final third of the diary, passages appear in a kind of code, and a cypher on a slip of lined paper is included. The name “Daniel G. Dawley” appears on the cypher, but his relationship to the diary’s creator is unknown. Blue paper wrapper, stitched by hand.
Dates
- 1838 - 1841
Conditions Governing Access
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Extent
From the Collection: 30 Cubic Feet (68 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
From the Collection: Latin
From the Collection: French
From the Collection: Italian
From the Collection: Welsh
From the Collection: Danish
From the Collection: Swedish
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From the Collection: Persian
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From the Collection: Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
Creator
- From the Collection: Scheetz, Nicholas B., 1952-2016 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu