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Call No.: A-135
Repository: Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
Creator: Frances Merritt Quick, 1833-1924
Title: Papers, 1850-1864
Quantity: 1/2 file box incl. 6 vols.
Abstract: Diaries and scrapbook of Frances Merritt Quick, teacher.

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SCOPE AND CONTENT

Five diaries, 1854-1858, 1864, of a student and teacher at the Framingham, Mass. State Normal School and later the wife of Rev. A.J. Quick in Richmond, Mass. Also, scrapbook containing a manuscript, 1817, by Caroline Prescott entitled "Female Education," and a few letters.

INVENTORY

• 1: Scrapbook, 1850-. Pictures of schools attended in Boston and vicinity, clippings, and manuscript by Caroline Prescott, "Female Education", Female Academy, Aug.-Oct. 1817 mounted on inside back cover.

• 2: Framingham State Normal School. Classes of 1854-1856 (two leaves from school catalog).

• 3: FMQ. Diary, State Normal School, Jan. 4, 1854-Apr. 15, 1855. Includes school notes.

• 4: FMQ. Diary, State Normal School, Mar. 7, 1855-Nov. 9, 1856. After teaching in Framingham from Sept. 1855 to the following March, FMQ re-entered Normal School for "advanced course".

• 5: FMQ. Diary, State Normal School, Sept. 23, 1856-1858 Aug. 15.

• 6: FMQ. Diary, State Normal School, Aug. 21, 1858-Dec. 29, 1858.

• 7: FMQ. Diary, Richmond, Mass., May 1, 1864-Dec. 25, 1864. Life as the wife of a minister. FMQ married the Rev. A.J. Quick, July 16, 1863.

• 8: FMQ. 3 letters to mother, New York, Jan. 16, Mar. 9, Mar. 25, 1861.

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