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Title Emily Elliot Daland incoming correspondence, 1928-1931

Creator Daland, Emily Elliot, 1854-1933

Date 1928-1931

Place United States

Language English

Subjects Female friendship, Manuscripts, American

Description Mainly letters from Emily Elliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, with a few to Gerard’s daughter Pauline, for whom Daland was acting as guardian of her small estate. Topics in letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, Hoover’s presidency, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also, three letters from Helen Gerard, a clipping, and a small collection of family snapshots.

Summary Mainly letters from a New England woman, Emily Elliot Daland, to a friend in Italy, Helen Gerard, whose young daughter had inherited a small estate for which Daland was guardian. The letters touch on many subjects that concerned typical Americans during World War I, the 1920s and then the Depression, such as the shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, the League of Nations, Prohibition, Hoover's presidency, labor strikes, and so on. Daland offers much advice to Gerard, who was always in need of money and clothes, and to her daughter who was becoming an unsuccessful artist. Included in the collection is a fragment of a letter from Tucker Daland announcing Emily's death in 1933, three letters from Gerard to Daland, a small group of family snapshots, and a newspaper clipping regarding an apparent Elliot relative.

Biographical/Historical Note Massachusetts wife and mother, born 1854 and died 1933.

Format Correspondence, Photographs

User-Contributed Transcription Jan. 26 1929 Copy To Mrs Emily Elliot Daland, Brookline, Massachusetts. Dearest Emily, We have just received your letter of January 11th, with all the enclosures showing what you have done with Paula's $700 from Grace Brennan, which since you undertook the guardianship in, we believe, February 1818, you have increased to $2,233, over three fold, and have now, upon Paula's reaching the majority, at her request, placed to our joint account in the State Street Trust Company, Boston. We approve of Tucker's idea, and have with pleasure signed the paper to fix beyond any possibility of doubt our entire satisfaction (and we should add our everlasting gratitude) for the most efficient and generous management of the legacy you so kindly accepted from the executor of Grace's will, consenting to administer it during all these years. With ever more & more grateful affections, I am Sincerely and devotedly yours, Helen Gerard. And I sharing, as my own expression, every word of the above, am no less grateful. Florence, Italy. January 26, 1928. Paula (or Pauline) Gerard.

Transcription Status Needs review

Transcription Note This document was transcribed by volunteers as part of the Newberry Transcribe crowdsourcing initiative.

Archival Collection Title Emily Elliot Daland papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS 155 Box 1 Folder 3

BibID 998225158805867

Rights Status Copyright Not Evaluated

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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