Z 1775.000
WHARTON (MARY) COLLECTION


Biography/History:

Who's Who in America

Scope and Content:

Series Identification:

  1. Essays. Boxes 1–5 contain Miss Wharton's religious essays.
  2. Scrapbooks.
    • Box 6 holds Wharton's scrapbooks dealing with Belhaven and Queens colleges and Katharine Wharton's scrapbook.
    • Box 7 has two scrapbooks dealing with musical subjects.
    • Box 8 has one scrapbook made for Mrs. Enfield Hopkins by her sister, Mary Gneathouse in 1858 and two others with miscellaneous clippings.
    • Box 9 has two scrapbooks by Mary Wharton, one of poems cut from newspapers.
    • Box 10 has one scrapbook made by Kate Wharton for her sister, Lucy, and one made for Mary E. Hopkins by her mother.
  3. Genealogical. Box 11 holds the photo-album of the Wharton-Hopkins-Johnson families, which contains notes on family beginnings and the arms of the Hopkins and Wharton families.
  4. Letters of recommendation in Box 12.
  5. Loose photographs.
    • Box 10 has one large photo of Mary Wharton.
    • Box 12 holds one large photo of Jackson, 1869.
  6. Printed material. Box 12, program from Mary Wharton's concert.