Fox and Simon family papers, 1862-1991.

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Southern Historical Collection (Wilson Library)

Call Number
5363
Status
In-Library Use Only

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The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, and other papers documenting five generations of the Fox, Simon, Whiting, Cherrie, and McMillan families. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the Fox and Simon families and documents married life in the early and mid-20th century and intergenerational relationships, especially between parents and their adolescent and adult children. There is extensive correspondence, including love letters, between Agnes Whiting Fox and Philip Fox and between Elizabeth Simon Fox and Edward Whiting Fox. Topics include family news and domestic concerns; physical and mental health concerns; intellectual pursuits and higher education; boarding school and college experiences in Europe and the United States; the influenza epidemic of 1918; homefront life during World War I; civic activities of women; and New York City society during the 1930s. The earliest letters are of the McMillan and Cherrie families of Knoxville, Iowa, during the Civil War. Later Cherrie correspondence chiefly documents the expeditions of naturalist George Kruck Cherrie to various locales in Central and South America. Letters to Philip Fox illustrate the social and professional pursuits of young college men at the turn of the 20th century. Photographs are chiefly black-and-white portraits and candids of Fox, Simon, and Whiting family members. There are a few slides, negatives, tintypes, panotypes, and an ambrotype. Other papers include a few diaries of Betty Simon Fox; teaching materials and writings of Edward Whiting Fox; homemade valentines and cards; a Morgenthau-Simon family genealogical scrapbook; and miscellaneous clippings, writings, notes, sketches, and postcard scrapbooks of Fox family members.

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