Scope and Contents
This addition to MSS 16758, The University of Virginia Collection on the History of Childhood, Parenting, and Family Building, contains a small pocket diary with ownership signature of "Louisa J. Pratt, New Paltz Landing, New York to front endpaper with an early 20th-century hand adding to pastedown and endpaper, "born 1846" and "13 years old." The diary contains 366 pages in legible hand. It focuses on the many losses she experiences across 1859 and her youthful awakening to...
Dates:
[1859]