Manuscripts

Volumes 15-21

Description: The collection consists of 33 items including 25 volumes of diaries and journals from 1910 to 1944 kept by Sallie Ryan. They describe her life in Seattle, Washington during World War I while three sons were in the service, the death from influenza of her fourth son Russell, and her life in Los Angeles, California, after 1919. There are also 2 letters, 2 telegrams, and a biographical sketch, with photographs, of Sallie Ryan.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1931-1937
Call number: HM 54325
Creator: Ryan, Sallie Elizabeth Howard (1853-1948)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Lewis Carleton Ryan, November 1979.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Volumes 9-14

Manuscripts

The collection consists of 33 items including 25 volumes of diaries and journals from 1910 to 1944 kept by Sallie Ryan. They describe her life in Seattle, Washington during World War I while three sons were in the service, the death from influenza of her fourth son Russell, and her life in Los Angeles, California, after 1919. There are also 2 letters, 2 telegrams, and a biographical sketch, with photographs, of Sallie Ryan.

HM 54325

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Diaries: volumes 1-8

Manuscripts

HM 54325

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Sallie Ryan diaries

Manuscripts

mssHM 54325-54328

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Volumes 22-25

Manuscripts

Box also includes letters, telegrams, and biographical sketch (HM 54326-54328).

HM 54325

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Catton, Margaret Mary Louise. Volume 21

Manuscripts

The collection comprises 66 items including 23 travel letters, 15 diaries, 4 scrapbooks, 22 photographs and 2 pieces of miscellaneous ephemera. The travel letters cover two trips taken by Mary Catton: 1. Trip to Japan, China, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, India, Egypt, Israel, Switzerland, Italy, France, England, Scotland and the United States in 1931-1932; 2. Trip to Canada, the United States, Panama, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji in 1938-1939. Her travel letters, which are written like diaries but addressed and sent to family members back in Hawaii, contain detailed descriptions of each place she visited. They are illustrated with photographs and postcards, many with handwritten captions (the travel letters contain over 1,000 photographs). While Catton visited the typical tourist sites at each city, because she was a social worker, much of the content of her travel letters is dedicated to comments and discussions regarding the lesser-seen parts of the cities, their hospitals, conditions of the poor, the homeless, the available social work services, government and politics, and education and schools. She often met with doctors and social workers and talked to them about their experiences; Catton was also often a guest of honor at events where she was asked to give talks about her work in Hawaii.

HM 68126

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Catton, Margaret Mary Louise. Volume 15

Manuscripts

HM 68120

Volumes 15-21

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