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Note by Frances Few Chrystie, Undated
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
No date; A note by Frances Few Chrystie, Mary Chrystie's mother, setting the record straight about Mary's honesty: "in mentioning her propensity to not speak the truth, I fear I may be misunderstood, it showed itself only when she was a very little child..."; by the time Mary was 7 or 8 "so strict was her veracity & so entirely to be depended upon" that Mary told the truth even to her own detriment; also described is Mary's tolerant and forgiving nature; mention is made of the Chrystie family's trip to Europe, and it seems that it was in large part motivated by medical advice: "[Mary's] physicians said that she ought not to return to America in two years"; Mary, however, wanted to return home sooner rather than later in order to prevent her mother from feeling herself "an exile" and so she might grow up close to her friends so as not to differ from them or lose any of their love.
- Arrangement
No discernible arrangement.
Collection History
- Appraisal
No materials were separated during 2014 processing.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Eric Johnson in 2002. Finding aid written by Ian Dooley and Miranda Marraccini in 2014.
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- Credit this material:
Note by Frances Few Chrystie; Mary Chrystie Papers, COTSEN1, Cotsen Children's Library, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (hsvc): Box 1
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- Bibliography
Eric Johnson, Ohio State University, "Making Mary: Maternal Shaping and the Construction of Childhood in the Mary Christie Archive".