Box 15

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The handwritten journal of the “thoughts and actions” of Aileen O’Donnell between October 1886 and March 1887. The journal begins in Paris and records travel to New York and Washington DC among other locales. The entry for November 5th makes mention of a visit to Georgetown, including the Visitation school and convent and “Georgetown College” where her brother John was once a student.

Scope and Contents A commonplace book, bound in green cloth and compiled by one Ethel Grey in the early 1870s. Grey appears to be a young English woman visiting or studying in Hanover, Germany. The book is filled with handwritten poems, most in English but occasionally in German: some are copied or written by Grey herself, some were apparently added in the hands of her friends. Occasionally a separate hand has annotated Grey’s poems in pencil with critique and advice for improvement. The book itself has a...

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Approximately 15 pieces of correspondence related to research done between 1927 and 1930 on the Wilson family of Gresegarth, Kendal, Westmorland, England apparently by Edward William Wilson. Accompanying notes, newspaper clippings, and legal documents document his interest in family history, genealogy, and heraldry. Wilson appears to have had a particular interest in his ancestor Rowland Wilson (1613-1950), a parliamentarian and soldier in the English Civil War.