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Note by Frances Few Chrystie, Undated

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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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Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

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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:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-1148
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (hsvc): Box 1

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Related Materials

For additional biographical and geneological information about the Chrystie/ Few families and Mary Chrystie, as well as classroom teaching materials related to the collection, see notes by Eric Johnson at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library.

Mary Chrystie Collection; 1856-2003; Princeton University Library Records, Princeton University Archives, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Bibliography

Eric Johnson, Ohio State University, "Making Mary: Maternal Shaping and the Construction of Childhood in the Mary Christie Archive".