LETTER: ALS, "Alice Freeman Palmer," to "Dear Mrs. James," Wednesday, n.d.
ALS, "Alice Freeman Palmer," to "Dear Mrs. James," Wednesday, n.d.
8vo.; one leaf, one page.
Palmer writes to arrange lunch plans for the following week.
American educator Palmer (1855-1902) was born in Colesville, New York and brought up in Windsor, New York. She graduated at the University of Michigan in 1876, taught at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (1876-77), and at Saginaw, Michigan (1877-79).
Elected to the chair of history in Wellesley College in 1879, she became acting president the next year and president of Wellesley College in 1882. She was married to George Herbert Palmer in 1887. In 1892 she became non-resident dean of the women's department at the University of Chicago, and a spokeswoman for women's place in higher education. She died suddenly in Paris, at the age of 47.
Wellesley College possesses a memorial to Alice Freeman Palmer, sculptured in relief by Daniel Chester French.
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