Blaisdell family letters
Collection Scope and Content
A collection of 123 letters, most of which are addressed to either Mrs. F. W. (Lucy) Blaisdell or to her daughter Elizabeth Pierce Blaisdell Dolan. The collection also contains Elizabeth's 1942 diary.
Dates
- 1879-1947
Creator
- Blaisdell family (Family)
- Dolan, Edwin (Person)
- Belknap, Mary Blaisdell (Person)
- Belknap, Arthur (Person)
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact the Curator of the Maine Women Writers Collection.
Biographical/Historical Note
Elizabeth Blaisdell Dolan and her sister Mary Blaisdell Belknap were graduates of Colby College. Elizabeth taught at Shaw University in North Carolina and at Alfred and Waterboro High Schools. She married Edwin Dolan in either 1937 or 1938 and they lived in Melrose Highlands, Massachusetts. Eizabeth died at the age of 74 in a Melrose, Massachusetts nursing home.
Extent
.75 linear feet (36 folders)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection is organized as a single series. Arranged chronologically.
- Belknap, Arthur
- Belknap, Mary Blaisdell
- Blaisdell family
- Blaisdell, F. W. (Lucy), Mrs.
- Correspondence Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Diaries Subject Source: Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms
- Dolan, Edwin
- Dolan, Elizabeth Blaisdell
- Title
- Guide to the Blaisdell family letters, 1879-1947
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Women Writers Collection Repository
Abplanalp Library
University of New England
716 Stevens Avenue
Portland Maine 04103 United States
mwwc@une.edu