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Religion

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Edling correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0529
Abstract

Edling, Leila Childs, 1895-1976; Nurse and missionary. Mount Holyoke College graduate, 1917. Papers consist of correspondence, primarily documenting her travels to Africa and her subsequent work as a mother and medical missionary in Angola.

Dates: 1918-1960; Majority of material found within 1921 - 1924

Friedline papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MS 0819
Abstract

Friedline, Jessie May Williams Freeman, 1870-1943; Mount Holyoke Female Seminary student 1886-1887. Papers consist of a journal, a published article and biographical information, primarily concerning a summer visit to Mount Holyoke College in 1926.

Dates: ca. 1911-ca. 1943; Majority of material found in 1926 - 1926

Grant family papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0543
Abstract Grant family. Elijah Grant and Elizabeth Phelps Grant, 1784-1866, and eight children. Papers consist of letters to Martha Grant, 1824-1847, compositions and journal. Primarily documenting the health of Martha, attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, 1842-1844 and activities of the family including mission work, education, and activities of her siblings, Joel, 1816-1873, John, 1822-1878, and Mary Zilpah Grant Burgess, 1811-1842, and in-laws, Susan Boyd Grant, b. 1815 and Abigail Fidelia...
Dates: 1836-1874

Mary Ella Spooner Brown papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0510
Abstract

Brown, Mary Ella Spooner, 1851-1946; College teacher. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1872. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary teacher, 1872-1884. Papers consist of correspondence, writings, biographical information, and photographs. Primarily containing her autobiography and also containing letters from Mary E.Woolley and original songs and poems.

Dates: 1872-1946

Nichols papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0677
Abstract Nichols, Bethiah Avery Miller, 1815-1865; Student. Attended Mount Holyoke Female Seminary 1837-1838. Papers contain a letter, lecture notes and a photograph. Primarily documenting her experience at Mount Holyoke and her interactions with Mary Lyon, including a visit she made to Heath, Massachusetts requesting funds for the Seminary. Housed in control files; two letters from John Kirkland Clark, grandson of Priscilla Maxwell, to Mary Woolley, regarding a letter written to his mother by...
Dates: 1837 - 1838

Sarah Locke Stow papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0591
Abstract

Stow, Sarah Deborah Locke, 1836-1927; College teacher and author. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary graduate, 1859. Mount Holyoke Female Seminary teacher, 1859-1868 and 1877-1889. Papers contain letters, compositions, writings, and biographical material. Primarily documenting her academic and social experience as both a student and teacher at Mount Holyoke.

Dates: 1852-1927

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), 1888 - 2008

 Series
Abstract Contain constitutions, lists of members, minutes, reports, programs, publications, articles, announcements, budgets, scrapbook and photographs concerning the Mount Holyoke College chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) from its inception in 1893 until 1935, when the organization was replaced by the Fellowship of Faiths. Materials document the religious and social activities of members, including their support of missionaries as well as residents of the South Hadley,...
Dates: 1888 - 2008