Charlotte Edwards Allen [Ward] papers
Scope and Contents
The Charlotte Allen Ward Papers contain diaries, correspondence, lists, memoranda, biographical materials and photographs. Includes detailed letters describing her life as the wife of a doctor and medical missionary in Turkey, Lebanon and the United States, 1907-1938.
Dates
- Creation: ca. 1899-1973
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Biographical Note
Charlotte Edwards Allen was born on December 11, 1880 in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1903 and taught at various schools until her marriage in 1907 to Edwin St. John Ward, a surgeon and Professor of Surgery. They had five children. For 25 years she lived in the Middle East while her husband worked in various hospitals for the Red Cross. In 1931 he became the medical director of the Hospital Cottages for Children in Baldwinville. Charlotte Ward died on November 14, 1973 in Penny Farms, Florida.
Extent
12 boxes (1903 Allen)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Ward, Charlotte Edwards Allen, 1880-1973; Missionary and housewife. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1903. Papers consist of diaries, correspondence, lists, memoranda, biographical information, and photographs. Primarily containing letters describing her life as the wife of Dr. Edwin St. John Ward and a medical missionary in the Middle East.
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Armenians -- Turkey -- History -- Sources
- Genealogy -- Sources
- Medical care -- Turkey -- History
- Missionaries -- Turkey -- Correspondence
- Mount Holyoke College Manuscript Collections
- Physicians -- Lebanon -- Biography
- Physicians -- Turkey -- Biography
- Physicians -- United States -- Biography
- Physicians' spouses -- Lebanon -- Correspondence
- Physicians' spouses -- Turkey -- Correspondence
- Physicians' spouses -- United States -- Correspondence
- Transportation and travel
- Women missionaries -- Turkey -- Correspondence
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Civilian relief -- Sources
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care
- Title
- Charlotte Edwards Allen [Ward] papers, ca. 1899-1973.
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- © 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Repository Details
Part of the Mount Holyoke College Archives and Special Collections Repository
50 College Street
8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
archives@mtholyoke.edu
