Overview
Collection consists of Delia Kingsley's diary describing her teaching, studies, romantic interests, travels, and other daily concerns.
Dates
- Creation: 1906-1910
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Original closed. Use digital object.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the diary created by Delia Kingsley, as well as, copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollection consists of Delia Kingsley's diary describing her teaching, studies, romantic interests, travels, and other daily concerns. Also included are accounts detailing her expenditures. Diary entries and account entries written tête-bêche. Nine loose sheets are inserted in the middle of the volume that continue the diary and the accounts.
BIOGRAPHY
Delia Kingsley was a schoolteacher in western Massachusetts. It appears that she taught there, and in Housatonic, New York and Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where she also took courses.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 96-M6
The diary of Delia Kingsley was acquired by the Schlesinger Library from De Wolf and Wood in 1996.
Processing Information
Processed: January 1996
By: Anne Engelhart
Updated and additional description added: December 2020
By: Amber L. Moore
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
Genre / Form
Geographic
- Connecticut--Social life and customs--20th century
- Massachusetts--Social life and customs--20th century
Topical
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by Patricia M. King/Schlesinger Library Director's Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01897
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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