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  • Classification number: 6C/1889
  • Title of Record Series: Class of 1889
  • Record Group: Students
  • Sub Group: Classes
  • Date: March 4, 1991
  • Accession Number:A86-42
  • Source: Shirley Smith, Charles T. Brewster, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Humphrey, Alumnae office, existing files
  • Restrictions: None
  • Volume: 7 boxes, 4 volumes, 1 oversize folder
Description:

Records of the Class of 1889; dating from 1885 to 1957; consisting of correspondence, clippings, invitations, notebooks, photograph albums, programs, course requirement books, scrapbooks, class history, record books, songs and other memorabilia, correspondence (1886-87) of Phillips Brooks, honorary member of the class, and letters home of Alice L. Brewster from Wellesley (1885-89), and Directions for Special Exercises in the Wellesley College Gymnasium, by Lucile Eaton Hill.

Box 1
  • Students: General
  • Correspondence: Phillips Brooks (1886-1887); Correspondence: Minnie Goodwin to Ruth Shield (1885); In Memoriam: Alice Elizabeth Waterman [1888]
  • Chronicles of '89 [1889] (2 copies)
  • Chronicles of '89 [1889] (1 copy)
  • Abbott, Ruth: Account book; Directions for Special Exercises in the Wellesley College Gymnasium, by Lucile Eaton Hill; College Regulations; Course Requirement Book; Examination Cards
  • Abbott, Ruth: Memorabilia; Letters
Box 2
  • Bean, Mary L.: Scrapbook (1886-1949)
  • Brewster, Alice L.: Letters (September 1885 - June 1886)
  • Brewster, Alice L.: Letters (September 1886 - June 1887)
  • Brewster, Alice L.: Letters (September 1887 - January 1888)
  • Brewster, Alice L.: Letters (February - June 1888)
  • Brewster, Alice L.: Letters (October 1888 - March 1889)
Box 3
  • Hutchinson, Maud: Scrapbook (1888-1889)
  • Leffingwell, Lucia D.: Biographical information;Catalog;Photographs of portraits;Sherwin, Eleanor: Course requirement book
  • Soule, Florence: Legenda-covered scrapbook (1885-88)
BOX 4
  • Soule, Florence: Legenda-covered scrapbook (1889-1891)
  • Soule, Florence: Photographs [1889]
  • Alumnae: General;A Memorial [Ellen Scott Davison 1921];Dedication of the Gamble Window [1939]
  • Class Letters (1889, 1891, 1892)
  • Class Letters (1893)
Box 5
  • Class Letters (1894)
  • Class Letters (1895, 1896)
  • Class Letters (1897, 1898)
  • Class Letters (1899, 1900)
  • Class Letters (1901, 1902)
  • Class Letters (1903, 1904)
Box 6
  • Class Letters (1905-1908)
  • Class Letters (1910-1914)
  • Class Letters (1915-1921)
  • Class Letters (1922-1931)
  • Class Letters (1932-1937)
  • Class Letters (1937-1940)
Box 7
  • Class Letters (1941-1943)
  • Class Letters (1945-1950)
  • Class Letters (1951-1954)
  • Reunion Reports (1890, 1892, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1919, 1940)
Volumes
  • Hoyt, Dr. Mary Osborn: photograph album
  • Soule, Florence: photograph album
  • Photograph album
  • Class of 1889 photograph album, with list of class members
Oversize
  • Topical Song for '89, by Florence Soule

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Wilma Slaight and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: January 24, 2008