Summary Information

Title: Harriet Douglas Whetten Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1831-1907

Creator:

• Whetten, Harriet Douglas, b. ca. 1822

Call Number: New York Mss G; Micro 388

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box) and 1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

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Abstract:

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.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-ny00g

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