Rosemary Masters correspondence
Scope and Contents
Chiefly letters to her parents Reavis and Rachel Cox, concerning her activities as a Mount Holyoke College student, 1958-1961, and her subsequent studies at Harvard University Law School, work as a lawyer, marriage to Jon J. Masters, life in New York City and birth of two children.
Dates
- 1958-1970
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Biographical Note
Rosemary Cox was born on August 2, 1939. She graduated from Swarthmore High School in 1957, and Mount Holyoke College in 1961. She received an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School in 1964. On June 16, 1962 she married Jon Joseph Masters, also a student at Harvard Law School. They had a daughter, Brooke Alison, in 1967, and a son, Blake Edward, in 1970. She worked as the Administrative Diector of the Manhattan Bowery Project from 1967-1968. She also worked as a legal consultant at the Vera Institute of Justice in 1969.
Extent
1 boxes (1961 Cox)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Masters, Rosemary Cox, 1939- ; Lawyer. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1961. Papers consist chiefly of letters to her parents, concerning her activities at Mount Holyoke College and Harvard University Law School, her work as a lawyer, marriage to Jon J. Masters, life in New York City and birth of two children.
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- College students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Family -- United States -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Graduate students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lawyers -- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Marriage -- United States -- History -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Alumni and alumnae -- Lawyers Subject Source: Local sources
- Mount Holyoke College -- Criticism Subject Source: Local sources
- Mount Holyoke College -- Curricula Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Faculty Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Religious life Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College -- Students Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Mount Holyoke College Manuscript Collections Subject Source: Local sources
- New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women -- Employment -- United States -- History -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Sources Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women college students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women graduate students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women law students -- Massachusetts -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women lawyers -- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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- Title
- Masters correspondence, 1958-1970.
- 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
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8 Dwight Hall
South Hadley MA 01075-6425 USA
413-538-3079
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