Series II: Memorabilia, 1872-1938
Scope and Contents note
This series contains personal items saved by the Parsons family. It includes memorabilia relating to travel, such as the passports of Mary Parsons, handwritten lists of personal travel expenses, unwritten postcards, and a ship passenger list from 1925. This series also contains items unrelated to travel such as photographs, poems, a list of potential characters in a play, menus of food to be served, and a 1938 short essay by Daniel Berkeley Updike on Edith Wharton's time in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Passports for Mary Parsons, 1921, 1922, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Photographs, 1910, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Travel Ephemera-Postcards and Passenger Lists, 1894, 1895, 1925, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Lists of Travel Expenses, undated, 1872
Box: 3, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poems and Plays, undated, 1899, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Menus of Food and List of Party Guests, undated, 1878, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Memoir of Edith Wharton by Daniel Berkeley Updike, 1938, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Postmarked Envelopes, 1895-1936, inclusive
Box: 3, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)