Important collection of personal and family papers from the estate of Adelaide Fries, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, ephemera, genealogical notes, and an important manuscript by her grandfather Bishop E.A. de Schweinitz describing the celebration of his Jubilee; accompanied by a similar group of material from the family of her sister Mary and her husband, W.A. Blair.
Virtually all of the material dates from the 1860s to the 1920s, with a sampling preceding and following that period. The collection includes: I. Works by Adelaide Fries 1. Three typed or autographed letters, signed, to (1) her grandfather, (2) the “Board of Trustees of Salem Congregation,” and (3) John..... More