Authors: Eliot, Abigail Adams, 1892-
Year: 1858
Subjects: May, Abby W.; Blackwell, Alice Stone,; Dix, Dorothea Lynde,; Eliot, Abby Adams Cranch.; Eliot, Abigail Adams,; Eliot, Christopher R.; Elliott family.; Eliot, Martha M.; Eliot, William Greenleaf,; Holman, Anna Eveleth,; May family.; Pearson, Elizabeth Ware.; Wheelock, Lucy,; Pacific Oaks Friends' School (Pasadena, Calif.); Nursery Training School (Boston, Mass.); Association on American Indian Affairs.; Eliot-Pearson School for Nursery School and Kindergarten Training (Medford, Mass.); Harvard University.; New England Association for Nursery Education.; Rachael McMillan Nursery School and Training Centre (London, Eng.); Radcliffe College Alumni and alumnae.; Radcliffe College.; Ruggles Street Nursery School and Training Center (Boston, Mass.); Shoals Religious Education Institute.; Tufts University.; Wheelock College; Winsor School (Boston, Mass.); World Organization for Early Childhood Education.; Child development; Education, Preschool.; Education Study and teaching; Family records.; Preschool teachers Training of; Parent and child.; Psychological tests for children.; Religious education.; Great Britain Description and travel.; Massachusetts Study and teaching (Preschool)
Abstract: The papers of Abigail Adams Eliot contain correspondence, diaries from trips, lecture notes, course materials, 1932-1960, photographs, articles, clippings and memorabilia. Included are correspondence between Eliot's grandparents, William and Abigail Adams Cranch Eliot, and Dorothea Dix; Eliot's letters home during study in Oxford, England; material on Eliot's sister, Martha M. Eliot; honorary degrees; and records of organizations in which Abigail Eliot was involved, including the World Organization for Early Childhood Education, the New England Association for Nursery Education, the continuing education committee of the Radcliffe Alumnae Association, and the Association on American Indian Affairs.