Box 1

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Envelope containing assortment of 15 business and calling cards, library and tuition receipts, recipes and grocery lists, Pullman tickets, and car insurance.

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15 cards and letters to Isabel from her parents, her husband, her lovers, and her daughter. Notable is a typed note from her mother with a photo of her childhood home, mentioning that she is working on a family history titled "Today, the Tomorrow of Yesterday." Additionally included are a clean copy of Isabel Myers and Philip Brinckerhoffs wedding invitation and a typed notice from Christian College regarding overdue fees.

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An assortment of 27 news clippings. Included are poems related to home, motherhood, loneliness, and hope; society news including friends' wedding announcements (including her friend Helen, for whom she would later document a testament of abuse for divorce proceedings), events community activism led by her mother (as well as coverage of her mother's near-fatal car accident), and beauty ads with advice.

Scope and Contents This folder contains eleven manuscripts and typescripts, some with copied poetry (including Rudyard Kipling) as well as original work (some of which is discussed in corresponding diaries during the drafting process). A handwritten account on the recto of an envelope documents the abuse Helen suffered from her husband "taken straight from Helen's lips" on Nov 30, 1921 as "testimony to be used in case of divorce" as well as a 1938 three page account of her own abuse by longtime partner Roy...

Scope and Contents Contains a diary which includes a tipped in loose manuscript note, one dried flower, and an article affixed to the rear pastedown. This diary documents her time at school and her early experiences of living away from home, learning to form female friendships and resolve conflict, and how she would like to comport herself in the face of crushes and sexual attractions. Content also includes her work writing and on piano, which remains a consistent focus during her school diaries. Towards the...

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Portrait at front endpaper, pasted in photos, pinned and inserted ephemera and original art related to sorority events, sports matches, and friends. College life, including movies and off campus events, are a focus. Friendships and courtships become more important as war looms.

Scope and Contents Numerous letters, news clippings, college ephemera, and envelope of dried petals laid in loosely along with photos pasted in throughout. By this time, she is considering her future beyond the college, including but not limited to marriage. Several pages (with photos) are dedicated to a young man named Bob White who has left to the war. She also documents her wedding to Philip in July, noting that she wore "the dress I had worn in the concert at the end of the year and had such a wonderful...

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Assorted letters and notes laid in loosely. Notable is the shift in ownership signature from "Isabel Myers" to "Isabel Brinckerhoff." The author feels restless and in limbo, having returned to campus married and struggling with how to fulfill two parts of herself.

Scope and Contents Three letters from college friends (within two envelopes) at rear, house plans pasted in, and household budgets on the rear pastedown. This is the first diary to be titled "Married Life" rather than "Diary of Izzy at Boarding School." Much of the content focuses on major life changes including relocation to California, living with Philip's family in the early period of marriage, and trying to understand how her selfhood and her new social role align. She begins addressing her diary as...