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Rosemary Masters correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0568

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

  • Creation: 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.

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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