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North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950

This database catalogs and indexes American and Canadian women's diaries and correspondence over centuries. It includes 150,000 pages of materials, including more than 5,000 pages of previously unpublished manuscripts, all drawn from more than 1,000 sources and representing 1,500 women from all walks of life.

 

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