Guide to the Minnie Arthur Letters MSS.2571
Arthur, Minnie
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Amanda Haldy
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
October, 2009
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
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English
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Minnie Arthur Letters
- Unit ID:
MSS.2571
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (30 Letters, 29 Envelopes)
- Dates:
1883-1924
- Abstract:
Friends and suitors write to Minnie Arthur of Ohio on a variety of topics, from minutiae to politics and travel. A few letters are from siblings, but most are from female friends and male suitors concerning socializing and visiting.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Amanda Haldy, 2009.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Minnie Arthur Letters, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
Scope and Contents note
Contains correspondence from friends and suitors on a variety of topics, from minutiae to politics and travel. A few letters are from siblings, but most are from female friends and male suitors concerning socializing and visiting. Recipient, Minnie Arthur, works for her living in some unidentified situation that makes her dependent on others, possibly as a governess, and her correspondents are often asking her to visit them.
Despite a large volume of letters from two different suitors, Wil, and John R. Hyman, Arthur remains single throughout the letters, and these correspondences cease in the 1880s. Political and social topics mentioned over the course of the letters include women's suffrage, the A.P.A. (American Protective Association), party elections, money-making endeavors in the west (Dodge City), and fundraising efforts of women's clubs. Entertainments and fashions of a middle-class or slightly affluent nature figure frequently, and illnesses and marriage are regularly mentioned.
Biographical/Historical note
Minnie Arthur received most of the letters at an address in Osborn, Ohio, though other letters are received in Union City, Indiana; Springfield, Ohio; and Chicago, Illinois. Most of the correspondents write from Ohio addresses, though one suitor, Wil, writes from Kansas. Another letter arrives from Janesville, Wisconsin.
Minnie Arthur Letters Box SC0027 Folder 2571.01