Inventory of Sarah A. Jarvis CorrespondenceMC.007 Processed and encoded by Ashley Kuhn; edited by Hanna Juergens; encoding edited by Megan Wheaton-Book Marion B. Gebbie Archives and Special Collections
Madeline Clark Wallace LibraryWheaton College26 East Main StreetNorton, MA, U.S.A.
November 2008 This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2012-10-12T14:15-0400 Description is in English Finding aid was prepared using DACS September 4, 2012 Finding Aid edited by Hanna Juergens; encoding edited by Megan Wheaton-Book, September 2012 Marion B. Gebbie Archives and Special Collections, Wheaton College, Norton MA. http://wheatoncollege.edu/archives/manuscripts-special-collections/ MC.007 Sarah A. Jarvis Correspondence, 1843-1850 Jarvis, Sarah A., Attended Wheaton 1843 0.2 2 To access materials, please contact the Marion B. Gebbie Archives and Special Collections. Information for Users Restrictions to Access

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 Conditions Governing Use

Reproduction or publication of any of the Sally Jarvis Letters, in whole or in part, will require the prior written permission of one of the below members of the Lawson family.

 Related Archival Materials

The papers contain a case file and information on how the Wheaton archives came to possess "The Correspondence of Sarah A. Jarvis."

WCA General Files, 1843

 Copies

The distribution of copies are as follows: Sally Jarvis Lawson, New Cannan, Connecticut Wheaton College for Women, Norton, Massachusetts Charles J. Lawson, Jr., Woodstock, New York James T. Lawson, New Canaan, Connecticut Howard H. Lawson, Clinton, New York Helen B. Lawson, Port Charlotte, Florida Col. C. J. Lawson, Naples, Florida

 Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Sarah A. Jarvis Papers, MC007, Marion B. Gebbie Archives and Special Collections, Wallace Library, Wheaton College, Norton MA, U.S.A.

 Processing Information

Processed by: Ashley Kuhn, November 2008

Encoded using Archivist Toolkit: July 2012

Encoding edited by: Megan Wheaton-Book

 Source of Acquisition

Gift of Col. Charles J. Lawson, 1974

 Biographical/Historical Note

Sarah Amelia (Sally) Jarvis was born in Newburgh, New York on April 7, 1828 and passed away on October 12 1966. She enrolled at Wheaton Seminary at the age of fifteen in 1843. She married James J. Whited in 1849.

 Scope and Contents

Sarah A. Jarvis contains twenty letters between Sarah, friends, and family, while she was a student at Wheaton Female Seminary, 1843. The papers also contain forty letters between Sally, friends, and family concerning family affairs, 1843 -1850.

 Subject Headings

The following terms suggest topics interspersed through the entire collection.

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Wheaton Female Seminary (Norton, Mass.) Women's education Jarvis, Sarah A.,--Correspondence. Collection Overview "The Letters of Sarah A. Jarvis" 1970 1 17 "The Wheaton Letters" 1843 1 18