You received a letter from a lifelong diarist and you gave her some good suggestions regarding what she might want to do with her lifelong volumes of personal diaries.
Another suggestion would be to contact Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. Housed in a special collection at the Harvard Library, the “Schlesinger is considered the leading center for scholarship on the history of women in the United States.”
If accepted, the diarist would find her pages archived among those of the great women in American history, including Susan B. Anthony, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Amelia Earhart and Helen Keller. An added advantage to giving her diaries to an academic library is that, if there is potentially embarrassing material in her diaries, she could ask that they not be released until after the death of her husband, if she predeceases him.If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation.
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