Diary of of Marie Barrows Streeter, 1876-1878

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a single diary written by Marie Barrows Streeter. She relates her daily activities; travel by ship and train from Savannah, Georgia, to Montgomery, Georgia; calls made on various friends in the Montgomery, Georgia, area; her return to Patterson, New Jersey; books she has read; sewing projects, etc. She also relates her unhappiness with her first husband Gus whom she divorced in November 1876. It appears that she may have undergone an abortion at Lenox Presbyterian...