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Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1930
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    • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
    • Date Created: 1930
    • Description: In this diary Mary Jean deals with some major health issues including damaged knees and a cut in her hand that landed her in the hospital for months that left much of the summer and early fall in the diary empty. Surviving a very cold winter in Washington DC, much of her daily life involves dinner parties, reading books, and visiting the movies alongside occasional visits from friends and family such as her Aunt Harriet. Mixed into descriptions of her daily life are mentions of national issues such as her brother John’s financial worries at the beginning of the Great Depression. Topics in this diary include the Great Depression, medical treatments including both home and professional remedies, and social and work life in Washington DC.
    • Parent Collections: Diaries
    Part of: Diaries


    Milk: Correspondence H.R. 2119, S. 762, 1949
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      • Creator: Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
      • Date Created: 1949
      • Description: Topics include bills in House and Senate to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to announce the parity price of milk and announce or make effective the support price of milk; mandatory supports for dairy products; disposal of surplus dairy products; proposed suspension of Boston milk order; Vermont farm cooperatives; supply and demand provision of the New England milk formula; United Farmers of New England; proposed equalizing of prices in New York and New England milksheds; marketing of Class II New York milk in New England secondary markets.
      • Parent Collections: Dairy and the US Congress


      Edward C. Smith to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1874 August 2
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        • Creator: Smith, Edward C.
        • Description: Topics include an injury he incurred while trying to put a halter on a wild mustang, arrangements for receiving sugar from Craig, and plans to send canned fruit and pictures.
        • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
        Part of: Fletcher Family


        Mary Jean Simpson Diary, 1938
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          • Creator: Simpson, Mary Jean, 1888-1977.
          • Date Created: 1938
          • Description: This diary discusses Mary Jean’s time as Dean of Women at UVM and getting involved in student and faculty life on campus. She goes to meetings and events at Southwick Hall, attends alumni events, and meets President Bailey. It also focuses on the health of her mother and Mary Jean’s friendship with Elspeth, her mother’s caretaker. Illness takes a center stage in this diary, as Mary Jean, her mother, Elspeth, and her brother John all deal with various sicknesses throughout the year. In the winter, Mary Jean details her experience with serums and intravenous iron supplements to combat illness. Lively descriptions of visits with family and friends and visits to church are emphasized during the various holidays throughout the year. Topics in this diary include transportation and automobile innovations, faculty and student life at UVM, health and medicine in the mid-20th century, weather patterns, and Vermont social life.
          • Parent Collections: Diaries
          Part of: Diaries



          Ashley Dixon to [Andrew Craig?] Fletcher\, 1876 August 4
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            • Creator: Dixon, Ashley.
            • Description: Topics include an excursion planned by Craig (?), which Ashley cannot attend.
            • Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
            Part of: Fletcher Family