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Summary Information
Harriet Douglas Whetten Papers 1831-1907
- Whetten, Harriet Douglas, b. ca. 1822
New York Mss G; Micro 388
0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Correspondence, 1862-1865, and a diary, 1862, of Whetten, a Civil War nurse, together with papers of her family. Whetten served as a nurse on hospital ships out of New York and Philadelphia, 1862-1865, and later as nurses' superintendent at the Carver Hospital in Washington, D.C. Also included is correspondence of various members of the Whetten family, 1831-1907, who were related to John Jacob Astor and who had tangential connections to Milwaukee through Robert Eliot. Ephemera in the collection consists of John B. Whetten's hand-printed copy of Hamlet and a handmade autograph book presented to Mary by her father in 1846. It contains an 1851 Jenny Lind signature. English
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