Clark correspondence
Scope and Contents
The Susie Elizabeth Martin Clark Correspondence contains letters to family members written while a student at Mount Holyoke College, 1907-1911, including letters from a summer study at Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory in 1910, and her subsequent work as a high school science teacher in Bristol, Vermont. The letters chiefly describe her social activities, academic work, friendships, work in the zoology lab, and excursions. Also included are accounts of meetings with her sister Margretta Martin Hayden, Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1909. The thirteen letters from Woods Hole describe boarding conditions and her work in the field of marine studies.
Dates
- Creation: 1907-1911
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Biographical Note
Susie Elizabeth Martin was born on September 11, 1889 in Hartford, Connecticut, where she attended Hartford High School. She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1911, majoring in zoology and history. She taught high school in Bristol, Vermont for two years, and then moved to West Hartford, Connecticut, where she taught high school science. She continued teaching there until her marriage on November 17, 1918 to Cornelius Edwards Clark. Their daughter Edith graduated from Mount Holyoke in 1942. Clark lived in Portland, Maine from 1945 until 1963. On June 30, 1979, Susie E. Martin Clark died in Hartford, Connecticut.
Extent
2 boxes (1911 Martin)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Clark, Susie Elizabeth Martin, 1889-1979; Secondary school teacher. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1911. Papers consist of letters to family, primarily documenting her experience at Mount Holyoke, with special emphasis on her summer study at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Institute and her later work as a teacher.
Arrangement
Chronologically arranged.
Geographic
- Bristol (Vt.) -- Social life and customs
- Vermont -- Description and travel
- Vermont -- Social Conditions
Topical
- College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence
- Family -- United States -- History
- Friendship -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Mount Holyoke College -- Faculty
- Mount Holyoke College -- History -- Sources
- Mount Holyoke College -- Students
- Mount Holyoke College Manuscript Collections
- Schools -- Vermont -- History -- Sources
- Teachers -- Vermont -- Correspondence
- Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- Sources
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions
- Women college students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence
- Women teachers -- Vermont -- Correspondence
- Title
- Clark correspondence, 1907-1911.
- Subtitle
- Finding Aid
- Status
- Edited Full Draft
- Date
- © 2003
- 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
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8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
archives@mtholyoke.edu
