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Student Diaries 1875-1939

Organized chronologically by diarist's class year. 

Year Name
1881  Charlotte Barrell Cheever, 2 volumes, 1879-80. (Earlier and later volumes also available.)
1882  Esther "Daisy" Herrick Brooks, 3 volumes, 1876-81. (Some in shorthand. Letters also available.)
1883  Evelyn Jean Forman, 1 volume, Jan 1880-June 1882.

Elizabeth Crocker Lawrence, 1 volume, line-a-day, 1880-1883.

Mary Askew Mather, 2 volumes, Jan-Dec 1882.
1887 Antoinette Louise Bancroft, 1 volume, short entry, Jan 1885- Jan 1886.
1888  Lizzie Southgate Parker, 5 volumes, short entry, Sep 1884-Jun 1888. (SSC - Lizzie Parker McCollester Papers, box 1. Earlier and later volumes also available.)
1890  Lucy Lamont, 1 volume, Sep 1886-Apr 1888.
1891 Janet Monroe Wallace, 1 volume, Sep 1887-Mar 1889. (There are 10 volumes, only this last from college. Letters also available.)
1892  Emma Beatrice Hawks, 3 volumes, short entry, Jan l890-Jun 1892. (Earlier and later volumes available.)

Ruth Gilman Cushman, 4 volumes (3 short entry), Jan 1889-Dec 1892.
1893  Anna Gertrude Brewster, 1 volume line-a-day, Jan 1893-Dec 1895. (SSC - Brewster Family Papers.)

Charlotte Norris, 1 volume, 1890-1891, some inserts from 1893. (SSC-Norris Papers. Earlier and later volumes also available.)
1895  Lydia Williams Kendall, 13 volumes, Jul 1891-Jun 1895. (Indexed.)
1896  Elizabeth Reeve Cutter, 2 volumes, short entry, Jan 1895-Jun 1896. (SSC - Elizabeth Cutter Morrow Papers. Pre-college diaries also available.)
1899  Blanche Ames, 2 volumes, Aug 1893-May 1899. (SSC - Ames Family Papers, box 4A.)
1904  Margaret Ruth Pomeroy Hamlin, 2 volumes, Jan 1901-Sep 1903. (Also one volume earlier and one volume later.)
1906  Helen Edna Putnam, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1905-Dec 1908.

Hannah de Rothschild Scharps, 1 volume, 1905.
1907  Mary Noyes, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1904-Dec 1908.
1909  Eleanor Stuart Upton, 1 volume, short entry, Sep-Oct 1905. (SSC- Upton Family Papers. Earlier and later volumes of diaries also available. Letters also available in the College Archives. Eleanor is the sister of Margaret Frances Upton, class of 1912.)
1910  Susan Eleanor Taylor, 1 volume, Mar-Aug 1910.
1912  Margaret Frances Upton, 1 volume, line-a-day, Sep 1908-Jun 1912. (SSC -Upton Family Papers. Later volumes also available. Margaret is the sister of Eleanor Stuart Upton, class of 1909.)
1913  Hart-Lester Harris, 3 volumes, Jan 1911-Dec 1913.

Ruth Whitney Higgins, 1 volume, line-a-day, Sep 1909-Aug 1913.

Helen Emerson Hodgman, 1 volume, line-a-day, Sep 1909-Jan 1913.
1914  Ila Carmichael Miller, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1911-Apr 1912.
1915  Eleanor Lamont Sackett, 1 volume, diary/scrapbook, Aug 1911- Aug 1912.

Hyla Stowell Watters, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1911-Dec 1915. (Letters also available.)
1918  Louise de Schweinitz, 3 volumes, line-a-day, 1911-1920.
1919  Edith Neafie Coit, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1914-Dec 1916.
1920  Anonymous, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1916-Dec 1920.
1921  Martha Amalia Kirsten, 1 volume, 1917-1920.
1922  Marjorie Bradford Adams, 1 volume, line-a-day, Jan 1919-Jun 1922. (SSC -Marjorie Adams Papers.)

Margaret Hays, 1 volume, line-a-day, 1917-21
1925  Dorothy Brewster Smith, 59 pp., Sep 1920-Jun 1925. (SSC - Dorothy Smith Dushkin Papers. Earlier and later entries also available.)
1926  Mary Elizabeth Clark, 1 volume, line-a-day, Sep 1922-Jun 1926.

Ruby Mae Jordan, 2 volumes, line-a-day, Sep 1919-Jun 1926. (Letters also available.)
1929  Alice Allen Eaton, 1 volume, Jan. 1928 - Feb. 1929. (Includes autiobiographical statement, written June 1995. Letters also available.)
1932  Phebe Adams Wing, 67 pp., Aug 1930-May 1931. (Written for fiance during junior year in France. Letters also available.)