ContentsDETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS Ser. 1. Genealogy and Biographical Material |
An Inventory of the Edna Postlethwaite Family papers, 1894-1962Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staffEncoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries1986
BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICALEdna Postlethwaite (1892-1972) graduated from Swarthmore College in 1914 and earned a masters degree from Columbia University. A Quaker and a member of New York Monthly Meeting of Friends, she was a teacher and involved in many social concerns. She was born March 10,1972, in New Rochelle, N.Y. Her uncle, George Edmund Strattan, was an 1895 graduate of Swarthmore College and his mother, Charlotte Lewis Strattan, was a member of the class of 1888, Return to the Table of Contents SCOPE AND CONTENTThe collection contains the letters and diaries of Edna Postlethwaite and photocopies of the letters of G. Edmund Stratton, her uncle. Of particular interest is the correspondence of the former with her parents, Clarence E. and Charlotte Lewis Postlethwaite, while she was a student at Swarthmore College and the diaries which range from 1907-1911, and 1913 to 1916. Return to the Table of Contents SELECTED SEARCH TERMSThis collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable. Return to the Table of Contents ArrangementThe collection is divided into three series: Return to the Table of Contents DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDSSer. 1. Genealogy and Biographical MaterialSer. 2. Correspondence, 1894-1962
Ser. 3. Writings, 1907-1933
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