Diaries

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the two diaries she kept during those years, as well as material inserted into those diaries. The sales receipts, church programs, news clippings, theater programs, and other items have been removed from the diaries and placed in folders. Included are receipts from Bamberger's, L.S. Plaut, Morrison's, Seguine, Empire Shoe, Stevens & Co., Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, Shartenberg's, Goerke Co., W. W. Oppenheim, Fain Knitting Mills, David Straus...

Scope and Contents Includes folded budget of C. M. Hedden Company, Newark hat manufacturer.Entries in diary include daily activities, law work, some travel etc. Diary written when Charles was age 29-32 (depending on date of birth sometimes listed 1889 or 1890).Typical entries: "Friday spent all morning at office and downtown home for lunch and search for books and library card, whole afternoon at Public Library reading History and Anthropology and Commerce"...

Scope and Contents The bulk of this collection consists of correspondance (folders 3-9, most from 1854-1868, but the earliest letter undated may be as early as 1851), mostly from Emma Kitchel nee Pruden to her sister Phebe (some to other relatives, etc.). Also contains several pages of a diary and verses (folder 2) and miscellaneous items (folder 10) calling card, Civil War flier, photograph). The donor numbered and transcribed the letters, the transcriptions are housed in folder 1 (a few letters are labelled...