Essay Written in Pencil by Mildred Crowell

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Undated
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Mildred Crowell
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Parsonage; Corner of Pleasant St. and Sea St.; The wood shed; Gertrude's playroom; Minerva at Smith College; Grandma Sears; Cold Storage Rd.; Sandwiches sent ti Minerva; Father, Edwin D. Crowell; Piggy bank; Baked beans; Cereal and milk diet; Spanking; Long fine hair; Gertrude's stories about Mr. Comb and Mrs, Brush; Lou; Games with Edwin; Tiddly winks; Jack straws; Old maids; Cut tongue; Cobwebs; Aunt Addy; Ladies' tradition of visiting; Cookie bag; Dolly the horse; Milkweed; Blue dishes; Staying with Grandma Sears; Mother's operation for gall stones; Hospital on Beacon Hill; No Mass General Hospital; No ambulances; Fatality from operations; Birth of Minerva; Grandma Crowell; Mary and Alice Saint; The Temperance Union; Gin; Anti-slavery activities of Grandpa Crowell; Peter Kelley; Grandpa David; Hall boys; Crowell boys; D.H. Hodgdons; Ice cream parlor; Soda fountain; Food and candy counter; H.H.'s; Cooper shop; Toys; Claud's house; The Hedges; The hurdy gurdy man; Worden Hall; Dances; Pie suppers at Worden Hall; Flowering in the woods; Coles Pond; Play at the beach; Clams; Christmas; Santa; Sunday school; Quakers; Dillingham houses; Methodist Church, Red Top; Tin shop; The School House; Chapman house; Downstairs Primary School; Upstairs Grammar School; Miss Elland; Miss Snow; Tim Walter Sears' daughter, Madeline; Mrs.Keen; Elocution; Peggy; Rea; Cousin Marian; Lady, the horse; Horseback riding; Minerva teaching High School; The phaeton; Aunt Georgia Nye; Fires; Birthdays; Fashionable clothes; Edmond at Exeter; Yale; Quincy Mansion; Howard Seminary; Adelphi College; Kindergarten teacher; Work with emigrants
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Fourteen numbered pages in pencil; at the top of the first page, in ball-pen, is written: "Mildred." The essay was written by Mildred Crowell (30 Sep 1891 - 24 May 1990), daughter of Edward Dillingham Crowell and Louisa Maria Sears Crowell. Mildred never married. Her essay ends abruptly after discussing her childhood life extensively
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http://hdl.handle.net/10766/4135
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