Collection Title: Zook Family papers
Collection Number: 123
Dates of Collection: 1848 to 1904, bulk 1870 to 1890
Box Numbers: 1-9
Repository: Chester County Historical Society
Jacob M. Zook born in 1821 lived for the greater part of his life on the same farm in Exton, PA that his great-grandfather Mortiz Zug had purchased in 1770. Jacob Sr. farmed for the majority of his adulthood and operated a lime quarry on this property in Exton from approximately 1856 to 1882. He was a devoted Quaker and active in local politics. He held a number of positions in Chester County government including county commissioner and school director. He died on the family farm in Exton in 1891
Jacob married Rebecca Ashbridge of Downingtown, PA, the wealthy daughter of Geroge Ashbridge, and had four children: Jane Downing Zook, Mary Ashbridge Zook (b. 1851), Rachel V.A. Zook (b. 1853), Elizabeth Zook (b. 1855) and Jacob M. Zook (b.1860). Rebecca (Ashbridge) Zook died in 1861. After their mother’s death, the Zook children were educated in Philadelphia. Upon reaching adolescence, they shared time between Philadelphia and Exton assisting their father and helping to raise their young brother. As adults, Jane and Rachel operated and taught at a boarding school in Philadelphia while Mary remained for much of her life in Exton with her father. In 1881 Jane broke off a wedding engagement with a socially well connected man in New York City. In 1887, Jane took a position in South Carolina home schooling the children of a well to do southern family. Jane returned to Pennsylvania and in 1891 married Phillip P. Chase. Jane would be the only one of the Zook sisters to marry. The Zook sisters traveled frequently during their lives visiting friends and relatives in the Midwest and New England states.
The large majority of the collection contains correspondence with only 8 folders of non-correspondence that include receipts/bills, creative writing, invitations, pamphlets/circulars, trade/calling cards. The majority of the correspondence relates to Jacob Zook Sr. and his children Rachel, Elizabeth, Mary, Jane and Jacob Jr. The collection is separated into four series:
Series I – Family Correspondence
Series II — Personal Correspondence
Series III – Business Correspondence
Series IV – Non-correspondence/Unidentified/Partially Identified Correspondence
Series I – Family correspondence
Includes the letters of the Zook sisters, daughters of Jacob Zook Sr. of Exton PA. Also includes the letters of Jacob Zook Jr. as well as in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews of the Zook family. The Zook children began writing letters at a young age. The letters of the Zook sisters provides candid dialogue regarding their health, family news and social life from childhood into adulthood. Jane D. Zook details her experience as a teacher including her time in Highland, North Carolina teaching the children of the Ravenel/Prioleau family
Cousin Elhanen Zook’s letters details his employment as civil engineer for the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska (B&MR). Frank Zook (Elahanen’s brother) was also a civil engineer for a number of railroad companies in California. Letters from cousins Elahenen and Frank Zook provides details of their employment as engineers surveying railroad lines as well as their observations of the west and its people. Letters to Mary Zook from Mary (Hinkle) Zook wife of Frank Zook offers a candid perspective of her life in California with her engineer husband.
Elizabeth “Leib” Zook’s letters from Fort Monroe, VA detail her life as a nurse during the Civil War. Elizabeth Zook was the sister She died in 1865.
Series II – Personal correspondence
The Zook sisters had a circle of close friends and acquaintances who make up the largest majority of the Zook’s personal correspondence. The largest single representative in series II is Anna Flowers Paul, a schoolmate, who offered candid observations on social relations. Paul lived in Philadelphia on Chestnut Street and appears to have relocated to Newport, Rhode Island in the summer months.
Series III – Unidentified/Partially Identified Correspondence
Includes correspondence related to the reform activity and professional lives of the Zook sisters. Includes ten letters from the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, an organization supported by Mary Zook. [Letters to Mary Zook from foreign missionaries can be found in Series II – Personal Correspondence]. Also includes correspondence from Harvard University regarding examinations for women, which includes a printed schedule as well as rules and regulations for test taking.
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The collection is arranged alphabetically by author. Author’s with multiple letters or a primary family name are in their own folder. Individual folders are labeled with the name of the author. All other letters have been consolidated alphabetically into folders of approximately 15 to 20 letters. These folders are labeled with the range of surnames they contain (ie: Anderson to Ashbrook) followed by the number of letters in that folder.
Nicknames:
“Bessie” = Elizabeth Zook
“Bertie” = Bertha B. (Reynolds) Zook
Series I – Zook, Family Correspondence
Folder 1/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Geo. to Ashbridge, Phebe, 10 letters, 1881-1887
Includes the following:
Ashbridge, George, 1 letter, [?] (from Philadelphia) to “mother”
Ashbridge, Hannah, 1 letter, 1882 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Ashbridge, Jane, 2 letters, [?] (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Ashbridge, Mary R., 6 letters, 1881-1887 (from Grove Bank) to Jane D. Zook
Ashbridge, Phebe H., 1 letter (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Folder 2/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Rachel S., 21 letters, 1865-1866
Note: 1833-1916, sister of Rebecca (Ashbridge) Zook [d. 1861] who was the wife of Jacob Zook Sr.
To: “Ratie”[Rachel V.A. Zook]; Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia; East Caln (PA); West Whiteland (PA); Exton (PA)
Topics include: mentions celebrations in Philadelphia related to Union victories in the Civil War; advice to her niece who was attending school in Philadelphia; family
news and activities; Jacob M. Zook Jr.
Folder 3/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Rachel S., 18 letters, 1868-1885
Note: Includes letter co-written with Rachel V.A. Zook
To: Mary [Zook]; Rachel [V.A. Zook]; Jane [D. Zook]
From: Exton (PA); East Caln (PA); Newport; Philadelphia
Topics include: social visits; clothes and apparel; school; engagement/marriage
Folder 4/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Rachel S., 11 letters, 1886-1889
Note: One letter written in French
To: Rachel [V.A. Zook]; Jane [D. Zook]; Mary [F. Zook]
From: Exton (PA); Philadelphia; Dresden; Nuremberg; Baden Baden
Topics include: family health; trip to Europe; details about ocean voyage; description of and experience in Germany and Switzerland
Folder 5/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Rachel S., 16 letters, n.d.
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia
Folder 6/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Richard J.D., 9 letters, 1881-1890
To: Mary [F. Zook]; Rachel [V.A. Zook]
From: Camp Workman; Little Falls (MN); “Camp on French River”; Dickson (WV)
Topics include: building railroad line; northern Minnesota; details of the work camp; working for the railroad
Folder 7/1/123 – Correspondence
Ashbridge, Thomazine, 12 letters, 1864-1890, 1916
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Philadelphia; West Whiteland (PA); Spring Lake Beach (NJ)
Topics include: wedding; social life; family news
Folder 8/1/123 – Correspondence
Chase, M.B. to Chase, Isabel, 5 letters, 1882-1904
Includes the following:
Chase, M.B., 1 letter, 1891 to Jeanne Zook
Chase, R., 1 letter, 1882 (from Chestnut Hill) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Chase, V. Bailey, 1 letter, 1894 (from Philadelphia) to “Jancy” Zook
Chase, Isabel, 2 letters, 1904 (from Haverford, PA; Exton, PA) to “Aunt Betty”
[Elizabeth Zook]
Folder 9/1/123 – Correspondence
Chase, Mary Ashbridge, 15 letters, 1904, n.d
Note: Majority of letters are not dated
To: Aunt Betty [Elizabeth Zook]
From: Exton (PA); Pinehurst (NH)
Topics include: family news
Folder 10/1/123 – Correspondence
Chase, Phillips P., 20 letters, 1880-1904
Note: Includes a sketch by the author
To: Jane D. Zook; Rachel [A.V.] Zook; Betty [Zook]
From: Philadelphia; Madison
Topics includes: real estate business; courting
Folder 11/1/123 – Correspondence
Dunwoody, Annie J., 6 letters, 1861-1865
To: Mary F. [Zook]
From: Beaver Mills; Exton
Topics include: mentions events relating to Civil War; family news; school
Folder 12/1/123 – Correspondence
Dunwoody, Jos. to Hunter, 6 letters, 1883-1891
Includes the following:
Dunwoody, Jos. P., 3 letters, 1883 (from Philadelphia; Atlantic City) to “cousin”
Garrett, H.R., 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Rachel Zook
Garrett, John B., 1 letter, 1891 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Hunter, L.M., 1 letter, 1893 (from Morgantown) to “niece”
Folder 13/1/123 – Correspondence
Jacobs, Mary S., 5 letters, 1865, 1874, n.d.
To: Rachel Zook
From: Summit Hall
Folder 14/1/123 – Correspondence
Massey, Rachel V., 10 letters, 1853, 1861-1866
To: “cousin”; Bessie Took
From: Philadelphia; West Chester
Topics include: family news and health
Folder 15/1/123 – Correspondence
Mast, Isaac Newton, 5 letters, 1883-1886
To: Jane Zook
From: Ottumwa (IA); Indianapolis (IN)
Topics include: working for the Ottumwa Starch Co.; life in Iowa; thoughts on Charles Dickens; opinion on class differences; family news; opinion of Ben Hur
Folder 16/1/123 – Correspondence
Mast, Julia (Bennet), 3 letters, 1882-1883
Note: Includes a letter from her daughter[?], Annie
To: Jane [Zook]
From: Ottumwa (IA)
Topics include: daily activity; praise for Jane Zook’s photograph; Shakespeare class
Folder 16A/1/123 – Correspondence
Myers, Sidney, 2 letters, 1854, 1888
To: Rebecca A. Zook; “Jeanie” [Jane D. Zook]
From: Lancaster
Folder 17/1/123 – Correspondence
Rhoads, Anna to Rhoads, Sophie, 11 letters, 1870-1889
Includes the following:
Rhoads, Anna, 4 letters, 1873, 1882-1883 (from Ashley) to Mary [Zook]
Rhoads, Beulah M., 1 letter, 1889 (from Haddonfield) to “cousin”
Rhoads, Chas., 1 letter, 1889 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Rhoads, James E., 3 letters, 1888 (from Bryn Mawr, PA) to Jane D. Zook
Rhoads, Phebe, 1 letter, n.d. (from Newtown Square) to “cousin”
Rhoads, Sophie, 1 letter, 1870 (from [Philadelphia]) to Mary [Zook]
Folder 18/1/123 – Correspondence
Sharpless, Helen F., 9 letters, 1879-1888, n.d.
Note: Includes letter written by E.B. Sharpless (1858)
To: Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Eugene City (OR); Philadelphia; Luzerne; Edinburgh; Linden (MA);
Topics include: life in the west; trip to Europe
Folder 18A/1/123 – Correspondence
Thomas, Pattie G., 2 letters, 1883
To: Rachel V.A. Zook
From: [not specified]
Folder 19/1/123 – Correspondence
Todd, John L., 6 letters, 1882-1884
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Alton Junction (IL); Paris (IL)
Folder 20/1/123 – Correspondence
Todd, Gertrude K. (Zook), , 1878-1888, 20 letters
To: Jen [Hornberger]; Jane [Zook]
From: Louisiana (MO); Roadhouse (IL); Paris (IL)
Topics include: St. Louis Fair; “flirting”; marriage; family news; daily life; reading/books
Folder 21/1/123 – Correspondence
Wheeler, Elmira A. (Zook), 6 letters, 1877-1879, 1887, 1896, n.d.
To: Rachel [Zook]; Janie [Zook]
From: Palo Alto (PA); Eaton
Folder 22/1/123 – Correspondence
Wheeler, Lewis to Wheeler, Lizzie, 6 letters, 1878-1889
Includes the following:
Wheeler, Lewis, 2 letters, 1878 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Wheeler, Lizzie, 4 letters, 1882-1889 (from Reading, PA; Roadhouse, IL) to
Rachel V.A. Zook
Box 2
Folder 23/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Bertha B. (Reynolds), 14 letters, 1885-1889
Note: Wife of Elhanen Zook
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Denver (CO); Akron (CO);
Topics include: surveying land for the railroad; impressions of Denver; reading/books; buying land; family news
Folder 24/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth “Leib”, 6 letters, 1862-1865
Note: Author died in Virginia, 1865.
To: Mary F. Zook; Jacob M. Zook Jr.; “mother”;
From: Washington (DC); Fort Monroe (VA); Hampton Hospital (VA);
Topics include: work as a nurse during the Civil War; impressions of Washington DC; death of a fellow nurse; description of the character and situation of an
emancipated slave; visiting battlefields in Virginia after the war.
Folder 25/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 21 letters, 1864-1865, n.d.
Note: Includes letters co-written with Jane D. Took, Jacob M. Took Jr., Jacob M. Zook
Sr., and Rachel V.A. Zook
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton, PA
Topics include: description of her birthday; detailed description of daily activities
Folder 26/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 22 letters, 1868-1872
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Exton (PA); Philadelphia
Topics include: detailed description of daily activities; school; social life; clothes and apparel; reading/books.
Folder 27/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 19 letters, 1873-1879
To: Mary F. Took; Jane D. Zook
From: Philadelphia; Exton
Topics include: visiting Penn Hospital with the Flower Mission in Philadelphia; social life; daily activity; looking for a home in Philadelphia; clothes and apparel; school;
leisure.
Folder 28/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 17 letters, 1880-1881
To: Jane D. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Newport (RI); Philadelphia
Topics include: social life; family news; details of the health and treatment of Jacob
Zook Sr.; visits to Newport; weddings
Folder 29/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 19 letters, 1882
To: Mary Zook; Jane D. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Philadelphia; Roadhouse (IL); Ottumwa (IA)
Topics include: health and doctor visits; daily activity; looking for a home in Philadelphia; visit to Illinois and Iowa; social life.
Folder 30/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 16 letters, 1883-1884
To: Jane D. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Philadelphia
Topics include: daily life on the family farm in Exton; social life; reading/books; health and doctor visits.
Folder 31/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 13 letters, 1885
Note: Includes letter co-written with Rachel V.A. Zook
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia
Topics include: operating a boarding house in Philadelphia; social life; mentions shopping at Wannamaker’s in Philadelphia; clothes and apparel.
Folder 32/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 27 letters, 1886-1892
To: Racel V.A. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Philadelphia; Nantucket; Haverford College
Topics include: social life; shopping; care of her sick friend Anne; daily activity
Folder 33/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elizabeth, 29 letters, n.d.
To: Jane D. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Newport; Philadelphia
Folder 34/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elhanen, 17 letters, 1879-1880
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Republican City (NE); Alma (NE); Bellville (KS); Superior (NE); Centre Mound
(KS); Spring Valley (NE); Rock Creek (NE); Spring Creek (NE)
Topics include: working as an engineer for the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska; descriptions of Nebraska and surrounding area; life in his work camp; interactions with American Indians; discovery of large bones and teeth at a work site.
Folder 35/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Elhanen, 21 letters, 1881-1885
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Rock Creek (NE); Liberty (NE); Pawnee (NE); Lincoln (NE); Rock Springs (CO);
Fremont’s Butte (CO); Beatrice (NE); Akron (CO); Denver (CO)
Topics include: town construction in Nebraska; Christmas; thoughts on the people who migrate west; job prospects; fire in the town of Pawnee; move to Colorado and a new railroad job as superintendent of repairs.
Folder 36/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 22 letters, 1874-1875
Note: Includes pamphlet titled: “Grace Church, Easter Services 1875”
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Greene Lake (CA); Pope Canyon (CA) Pope Mountain Camp (CA); San
Francisco (CA); “On board S.S. Acapulco”; Novato (CA); Petaluma (CA); San
Rafael (CA)
Topics include: working as an engineer for the railroad in California; surveying; description of his work camp and fellow workers; California scenery; description of San Francisco; church attendance; observations on railroad construction.
Folder 37/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 22 letters, 1876
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Petaluma (CA); San Rafael (CA);
Topics include: work for the Sonoma and Marin Railroad Company; burning of the workshops at the state prison at San Quentin; leisure; building a railroad tunnel; description of San Francisco bay; description of his California acquaintances; description of his future wife.
Folder 38/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 18 letters, 1877
To: Mary F. Zook
From: San Rafael (CA); Olimpali (CA)
Topics include: job prospects; dispute with his employer; mentions the railroad strike (1877); local elections; leisure
Folder 39/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 18 letters, 1878
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Petaluma (CA); San Francisco (CA); Lake View (NV)
Topics include: work for the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad Company; weddings; examining mines in Nevada; visit to Salt Lake City; social life; boarding in San Francisco.
Folder 40/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 21 letters, 1879-1880
To: Mary F. Zook
From: San Francisco (CA); San Diego (CA); El Rio (CA); Sonoma (CA);
Sacramento (CA)
Topics include: difficulty finding permanent work; opinion of the Chinese; leisure; mining business in Southern California; working for the Sonoma Valley Railroad; wedding plans; description of his wedding day; railroad lawsuits; election (1880)
Folder 41/2/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Frank Kurtz, 6 letters, 1881-1883
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Sonoma (CA)
Topics include: birth of his son
Folder 42/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Jr., 20 letters, 1865-1871
Note: A number appear to have been dictated by one of JMZ’s sister’s.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton
Topics include: youthful observations of daily life
Folder 43/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Jr., 8 letters, 1872, 1881, 1893-1896
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel Zook
From: Exton (PA); Madison (CT); Philadelphia (PA); San Antonio (TX)
Topics include: wedding; description of Madison; real estate business
Folder 44/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 13 letter, 1865
Note: To: “children”; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: farming; family news; health of friends and family; social visiting; disownment (Quaker)
Folder 45/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 21 letters, 1866
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: family news; health of friends and family; social visiting farming; lime production; mentions a quarry
Folder 46/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 17 letters, 1866
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: farming; family news; health of friends and family; social visiting
Folder 47/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 22 letters, 1868-1877
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Exton
Topics include: farming; family news; health of friends and family; social visiting
Folder 48/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 16 letters, 1879-1881
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Elizabeth Zook
From: Exton; West Chester; Louisiana [MO]
Topics include: farming; family news; health of friends and family; social visiting
Folder 49/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 21 letters, 1882-1885
Note: Includes a letter co-written with Rachel V.A. Zook
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Elizabeth Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Cape May (NJ); Nantucket
Topics include: daily activity while in New Jersey and Nantucket; family news; health of friends and family
Folder 50/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 18 letters, 1886-1887
Note: Includes letterhead with the following: “Building Lime a Specialty, J.M. Zook,
Burner and Dealer in Lime”
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Elizabeth Zook; Jane D. Zook
From: Exton; Altoona (PA);
Topics include: farming; family news; health of friends and family; Jacob Zook Jr.’s work in real estate
Folder 51/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 19 letters, 1888-1891
To: Jane D. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook; Mary F. Zook; Elizabeth Zook
From: Exton
Topics include: family news; health of friends and family; social visits; farming; finances
Folder 52/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jacob M., Sr., 7 letters, n.d.
To: Elizabeth Zook; Mary F. Zook;
From: [Exton]
Folder 53/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 22 letters, 1865-1866
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton
Topics include: youthful observations of daily life
Folder 54/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 18 letters, 1868-1876
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Exton; Palo Alto (PA); Philadelphia (PA)
Topics include: daily life; reading/books; experience in an unfamiliar town; clothes and apparel; social life
Folder 55/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 22 letters, 1877-1886
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook; Jacob Zook Sr.;
From: Philadelphia (PA); Mt. Desert [ME]; Nantucket (MA); Newport (RI); Ottumwa (IA);
Bridgeton (NJ); Greenwich
Topics include: description of school and classmates; trip by boat from Boston to Maine; social life; family news; recuperative trip with father; description of Nantucket
Folder 56/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 22 letters, 1887-1889, n.d.
Note: Letter dated March 17, 1887 includes a sketched floor plan of the home in which the author lived while tutoring children in North Carolina
To: Elizabeth Zook; Mary F. Zook;
From: Highland (NC); Walhalla (SC); Philadelphia
Topics include: sickness during her trip south; description of her accommodations with the Ravenel family in North Carolina; teaching and daily life in North Carolina; southern life; school business; financial struggles in Philadelphia; second summer with the Ravenel’s
Folder 57/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 9 letters, 1889-1892
Note: Author’s signed her married name as J.D.Z. Chase. Author married Philip P.
Chase in 1891.
To: Rachel Zook; “Polly” [Mary F. Zook]; Elizabeth Zook
From: Haverford College; Philadelphia (PA); Exton (PA)
Topics include: married life; her daughter, Mary
Folder 58/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 11 letters, n.d.
To: Elizabeth Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Philadelphia
Folder 59/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Jane D., 17 letters, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia (PA); Washington Station
Folder 60/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary (Hinkle), 19 letters, 1880-1884
Note: Wife of Frank K. Zook, married 1880
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Sonoma (CA); San Luis Obispo (CA); Petaluma (CA); San Rafael (CA)
Topics include: domestic work; married life; husband’s work with the railroad; dancing; photographs; church services; transient lifestyle; care of her baby
Folder 61/3/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary (Hinkle), 19 letters, 1885-1886
To: Mary F. Zook
From: San Rafael (CA); San Francisco (CA)
Topics include: activities of her son, Edgar; reading/books; opinion of William Dean Howell’s female characters; boarding in San Francisco; thoughts on divorce; earthquakes; husband’s work
Folder 62/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary (Hinkle), 18 letters, 1887-1888
To: Mary F. Zook
From: San Francisco (CA)
Topics include: her son, Edgar; Christmas; boarding in San Francisco; reading/books; opinion of Frankenstein; death of her brother; her husband’s absence b/c of work
Folder 63/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary (Hinkle), 20 letters, 1889, n.d.
Note: Includes printed circular of sermons from St. Luke’s Church
To: Mary F. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: San Francisco (CA); New York (NY); Philadelphia (PA)
Topics include: reading/books; trip to the east; renting a furnished house (CA); description of rented house; searching for a house (CA)
Folder 64/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 18 letters, 1865-1870
To: Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Philadelphia (PA); Exton (PA); West Chester (PA)
Topics include: family news; attending school; social life; Christmas presents; clothes and apparel
Folder 65/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 19 letters, 1871-1878
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook
From: Newport (RI); Exton (PA); Palo Alto (PA); Philadelphia (PA)
Topics include: train journey to Newport; life in Newport; family news; reading/books; attending a Strauss concert in Boston; daily life; social life; gossip
Folder 66/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 19 letters, 1879-1885
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; “Jeanne”; Jane D. Zook
From: Exton (PA); Moorestown (NJ)
Topics include: wedding; social life; family news; taking in an orphan; health of family and friends; domestic work; gossip
Folder 67/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 22 letters, 1886-1890, 1904-1905, n.d.
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Elizabth Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: health of family and friends; social life; gossip; birthday presents
Folder 68/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 20 letters, n.d.
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; “Betty” [Elizabeth Zook]
From: Exton (PA); Philadelphia (PA); Haverford (PA)
Folder 69/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Mary F., 19 letters, n.d.
To: Jane D. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Folder 70/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Marianna, 6 letters, 1 clipping, 1863-1866, 1886, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: West Whiteland (PA); Narberth (PA)
Folder 71/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel M., 3 letters, 1893, n.d.
To: “Niece” [Elizabeth Zook]; Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia
Folder 72/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 13 letters, 1865
Note: Includes letters co-written with Jacob M. Zook, Sr.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: youthful accounts of daily life and social life; clothes and apparel; shopping in West Chester
Folder 73/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 24 letters, 1866
Note: Includes letter co-written with Jane D. Zook, Elizabeth Zook
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton (PA)
Topics include: youthful accounts of daily life and social life; school
Folder 74/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 21 letters, 1868-1875
To: Mary F. Zook; “Betty” [Elizabeth Zook]; “Janet”; Jane D. Zook
From: Reading (PA); Philadelphia (PA); Newport (RI); Palo Alto (PA) Exton (PA);
Topics include: social life; health of family and friends; traveling by train; shopping; leisure; gossip; treatment for her sick brother; boat trip from New York to Newport; activities in Newport;
Folder 75/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 23 letters, 1877-1880
Note: Includes a letter dictated by RVAZ from Lewis C. Wheeler
To: Mary F. Zook; “Janet”; Janet D. Zook
From: Exton (PA); Newport (RI); Philadelphia (PA); New York (NY)
Topics include: Quaker meeting; social life; brother Jacob’s education; social life; daily life; her sister Jane’s engagement to a man [Frank Schell] from New York; clothes and apparel
Folder 76/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 16 letters, 1884-1885
To: “family”; Mary F. Zook
From: Nantucket; Philadelphia
Topics include:operating a boarding house in Philadelphia; social life; teaching in Philadelphia [private study]; gossip; housekeeping
Folder 77/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 12 letters, 1886
To: Mary F. Zook; “Jane Ann”
From: Philadelphia; Exton; Elm (PA);
Topics include: social life; trip with her father; gossip
Folder 78/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 11 letters, 1887-1891
To: “Miss Lamb”; Mary F. Zook; Jane D. Zook; Jane Ann Zook;
From: Philadelphia; Exton
Topics include: social life; Quakers and military service; family news; Jacob Zook’s real estate business; health of family and friends
Folder 79/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 18 letters, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Newport; Philadelphia; Nantucket
Folder 80/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 15 letters, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia; Palo Alto (PA); Exton
Folder 81/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Rachel V.A., 17 letters, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook; “Janet” [Jane D. Zook]; Jacob M. Zook, Jr.
From: Exton; Philadelphia
Folder 82/4/123 – Correspondence
Zook, Tammie, 6 letters, 1862-1867
To: “Cousin Mary” [Zook]
From: [Philadelphia]; Westtown Seminary
Box 5
Folder 83/5/123 – Correspondence
Allen to Bacon, 4 letters, 1877-1910
Includes the following:
Allen, [?], 1 letter, 1910 (from Newport, RI) to “Betty”
B____, Molly, 1 letter, n.d. (from Red Bank) to “M’lle Took”
Bacon, J. Murray, 1 letter, 1880 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Bacon, Rebecca E., 1 letter, 1877 (from Ruscomber) to “friend”
Folder 84/5/123 – Correspondence
Bettle, Carrie, 8 letters, 1879-1882
To: “Jen”[Jane D. Zook]
From: Oaklands (NJ); Camden (NJ); Jefferson (NH)
Topics include: social life; gossip
Folder 84A/5/123 – Correspondence
Bettle, Mary, 3 letters, 1886
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Oakland Hills, NJ
Folder 85/5/123 – Correspondence
Boone, Carrie, 18 letters, 1885
To: Mary F. Zook
From: St. Mary’s Hall, Burlington (NJ); Riverside (CT)
Topics include: boarding school; shopping in Philadelphia; clothes and apparel
Folder 86/5/123 – Correspondence
Boone, Carrie, 12 letters, 1 pamphlet, 1886-1890
Note: Pamphlet includes a list of performances for the author’s school concert.
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Prussia; Chattanooga (TN); Sewanee (TN); Shanghai (China)
Topics include: journey by boat; gossip about travel companions; attending a
Moravian school in Prussia; details about her daily life at school; Kinderfest; excursions; impression of the [United States] South; attending Shakespeare plays; marriage engagement; details about her wedding dress.
Folder 87/5/123 – Correspondence
Boone, H. to Brown., 12 letters, 1885-1886
Includes the following:
Boone, Henrietta, 3 letters, 1886 (from London (England); Kansas City) to “Miss
[Mary] Zook”
Boone, Thomas, 1 letter, 1886 (from Savannah, GA) to “Miss [Mary] Zook”
Boone, Wm., 8 letter, 1885-1886 (from Japan; Putnam, CT; Staten Island, NY;
Prussia) to Mary F. Zook; Topics include: care of his daughter, Carrie
Boone
Brown, Charlotte Augusta, 1 letter, n.d. to “Miss Zook”
Folder 88/5/123 – Correspondence
Buck, Sidney E.R., 11 letters
Note: A few letters written partly in French
To: “Jennie”; Mary F. Zook;
From: Bridgeton (NJ); Lancaster (PA)
Topics include: social life
Folder 89/5/123 – Correspondence
Bunting to Cook, 10 letters, 1865-1888
Includes the following:
Bunting, Anita M., 1 letter, 1888 (from Darby, PA) to “Miss Zook”
Cochran, M.B., 1 letter, 1882 (from Philadelphia, PA) to Jane D. Zook
Collins, Sarah C., 3 letters, 1870-1874 (from Philadelphia, PA) to Mary F. Zook
Cook, Fannie L., 1 letter, 1865 (from Charleston, SC) to Mary F. Zook
Cope, Laura, 1 letters, 1879 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Folder 90/5/123 – Correspondence
Courtney, Mary C., 6 letters,
To: “Jeanne” [Jane D. Zook]
From: Germantown (PA); Pottsville (PA); Camden (NJ)
Topics include: employment; social life
Folder 91/5/123 – Correspondence
Crane to Crane, 3 letters, 1881
Includes the following:
Crane, [?], 1 letter, n.d. (from New York, NY) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Crane, Julia, 1 letter, 1881 (from New York, NY) to Jane D. Zook
Crane, Walter Beverly, 1 letter, 1883 (from Hanover NH) to Jane D. Zook
Folder 92/5/123 – Correspondence
DeSaussure, Susie B., 6 letters, 1886
Note: Contains two letters authored by people with the surname DeSaussure but with
illegible first names
To: “Miss Took”[Jane D. Zook]
From: Charleston (SC)
Includes the following: detailed description of the Charleston earthquake and its
aftermath; family news and health; Carrie Boone
Folder 93/5/123 – Correspondence
Dickson to Edge, 9 letters, 1848-1884
Includes the following:
Dickson, J.S., 1 letter, 1882 (from Princeton) to Jane D. Zook
Doyle, G.M., 2 letters, 1880 (from Ireland) to Jane D. Zook
Downing, P., 2 letters, 1884 to Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
Downing, Mary A., 4 letters, 1861-1866 (From West Chester, PA; Pocopson) to
Mary F. Zook
Downing, Rich, 1 letter, n.d. to Mary F. Zook
Edge, Jonas, 1 letter, 1848 (from Philadelphia) to Jacob Zook, Sr.
Folder 94/5/123 – Correspondence
Evans, Harry, 6 letters, 1881-1882
To: “friend”; Mary F. Zook
From: Fort Wayne (IN)
Topics include: daily and social life
Folder 95/5/123 – Correspondence
Fairlamb to Franklin, 6 letters, 1880-1904
Includes the following:
Fairlamb, Thomazin T.C., 4 letters, 1882-1887, 1904 (from Exton) to Jane D.
Zook
Fox, Edward B., 1 letter, 1880 (from Philadelphia) to “Dear friends”
Franklin, Eliza, 1 letter, n.d. (from Green Bank) to “Miss Zook”
Franklin, Marianna, 1 letter, 1888 to “Miss Zook”
Folder 96/5/123 – Correspondence
Fraser, Charles O., 9 letters,
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Philadelphia (PA); Blockley (PA)
Topics include: social life
Folder 97/5/123 – Correspondence
Grubb to Hopkins, 14 letters, 1880-1889
Includes the following:
Grubb, J.R. Davis, 1 letter, n.d. to “Miss Zook”
Grubb, Mary H., 1 letter, 1889 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Haines, H.E., 4 letters, 1880-1881 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Hedley, A.S., 1 letter, 1886 (from Clifton, NJ) to Mary F. Zook
Henry, S.A., 1 letter, n.d. (from Lionville) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Hopkins, Bessie H., 6 letters, [1888] (from Providence, RI; Shady Side; Milton,
CA; Merion, PA) to “Jennie”[Jane D. Zook]
Folder 98/5/123 – Correspondence
Hosford, Jennie A., 14 letters
To: “Miss Zook” [Mary F. Zook]
From: Philadelphia; Hudson (NY); Ivy Hall
Topics include: social life; gossip; shopping in Philadelphia; school
Folder 99/5/123 – Correspondence
Howell to Howland, 2 letters, 1892
Includes the following:
Howell, Eliza B., 1 letter, 1892 (from Germantown, PA) to “friend”
Howland, T., 1 letter, n.d. (from Wilmington, DE) to Jane D. Zook
Folder 100/5/123 – Correspondence
Hudson, Letitia, 7 letters, 1878-1889
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Philadelphia (PA); Coatesville
Topics include: social life; leisure; trip to the coast of Maine
Folder 101/5/123 – Correspondence
Johnson, Sally W., 18 letters, 1884-1890
Note: Includes a letter from Laura C. James
To: Rachel V.A. Zook;
From: Philadelphia (PA); Upsal (PA); Lake George (NY); Stamford (CT); Virginia Beach
Topics include: social life; mentions charitable work; reading circle; Christmas; domestic workers and work; travel in New England; reading/books;
Folder 102/5/123 – Correspondence
Johnson, Sally W., 9 letters, n.d.
To: Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Upsal (PA)
Folder 103/5/123 – Correspondence
Kerr, F.M., 1 letter, 1914
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Bryn Mawr (PA)
Topics include: sympathy for the death of Elizabeth Zook
Folder 104/5/123 – Correspondence
Ketcham, T. Valentine, 10 letters, 1880-1881
To: “Miss Zook” [Jane D. Zook]
From: Philadelphia (PA); Stamford (CT);
Topics include: daily rigors of college life; responses to invitations
Folder 105/5/123 – Correspondence
King to May, 19 letters, 1870-1891
Includes the following:
King, Henrietta, 1 letter, 1886 (from New York, NY) to “Miss Zook
King, Sophy R., 2 letters, 1890-1891 (from Haverford College) to Rachel V.A.
Zook
Lamb, Augusta, 3 letters, 1884, 1889 (from Brookline, MA) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Lippincott, Chas., 1 letter, 1880 to “Misses Nicholson, Haston, Porter and Zook”
Longstreth, B.T., 1 letter, 1873 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Longstreth, M.A., 3 letters, 1870, 1882 (from Philadelphia) to Mary Zook,
Rachel Zook
Longstreth, T.K., 1 letter, 1879 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Loos, Bertha C., 1 letter, 1889 (from Scranton, PA) to “Miss Zook”; Note:
includes clipping about the “Loos-Baker Wedding”
Marks, Wm. D., 1 letter, 1880 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Mathews, C.R., 1 letter, 1886 (from Philadelphia) to “Miss Zook”
May, Mary, 4 letters, 1881-1882 (from Germantown, PA) to Jane D. Zook
Folder 106/5/123 – Correspondence
Includes the following:
McKim, J. Leighton, 1 letter, 1886 (from Burlington, NJ) to Mary Zook
McKim, Sarah F., 2 letters, 1886 (from Burlington, NJ) to Mary Zook; Topics
include: Carrie Boone
Folder 107/5/123 – Correspondence
Moore, Henrietta, 10 letters, 1882-1891
Note: [African American girl and student of Elmira (Zook) Wheeler]
To: Jane D. Zook: Mary F. Zook; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: Clifton Heights (PA); New York, NY; Philadelphia (PA)
Folder 108/5/123 – Correspondence
Includes the following:
Morris, Ellen, 1 letter, 1883 (from Dundale) to “Miss Zook”
Morris, Mary, 3 letters, 1888 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook, Mary F.
Zook
Neal, James B., 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Newhall, Abby, 1 letter, 1885 to Rachel V.A. Zook
Nicholson, J.W., 3 letters, 1881-1882 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Nicholson, Katie C., 1 letter, 1881 to “Jen”
Folder 108A/5/123 – Correspondence
Nicholson, Marnie C., 17 letters, 1874-1879
To: “Jen” [Jane D. Zook]; Mary [F. Zook]
From: Philadelphia; New York City; Atlantic City
Folder 108B/5/123 – Correspondence
Nicholson, Marnie C., 22 letters, 1880-1884, n.d.
To: “Jen” [Jane D. Zook]
From: Atlantic City; Philadelphia; Yonkers
Folder 108C/5/123 – Correspondence
Oliver to Parrish, 7 letters, 1881-1886
Includes the following:
Oliver, Charles A., 5 letters, 1885-1886 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Osborne, Amelia, 1 letters, 1886 (from Rosemont) to “Miss Zook”
Parrish, Margaret, 1 letter, 1881 to “Miss Zook”
Folder 109/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 13 letters, 1867-1872
To: Mary F. Zook; Rachel F. Zook
From: Newport (RI); Philadelphia (PA);
Topics include: daily life; festival; courting; social life
Folder 110/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 17 letters, 1873 (January to April)
To: Mary F. Zook
From: “home” [Philadelphia]
Topics include: social life; description of a party with her male escort; clothes and
apparel; daily life; health of family and friends
Folder 111/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 22 letters, 1873 (May to December)
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia; Newport (RI); Lynn [MA];
Topics include: daily life; domestic work; life in Newport; “young men”; baptism; health; mentions going to hear Henry Ward Beecher while in Lynn [Mass.]
Folder 112/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 18 letters, 1874-1876
To: Mary F. Paul
From: Newport (RI); Cincinnati (OH); Philadelphia
Topics include: social life; description of Cincinnati; time spent with “Will L.”;
daily life; activity in Newport; description of a wedding
Folder 113/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 18 letters, 1877-1880
To: Mary F. Zook; “Strache” [Rachel A.V. Zook]
From: Pottstown; Newport; Bangor; Paris (France); Liverpool; “home”[Philadelphia];
Hibernia (FL)
Topics include: activity in Newport; social life; trip to Europe (England and France); operations at a slate quarry near Bangor; trip to Florida; sailing; reading/books
Folder 114/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 22 letters, 1881
To: Mary F. Zook
From: “home” [Philadelphia]; Newport; “On board the Idelwild”; Upton
Topics include: daily life; “rock party”; weddings; bicycle accident; wedding
engagements; mentions charitable work
Folder 115/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 16 letters, 1882-1888
To: Mary F. Zook; “Bets”[Elizabeth Zook]; “Strache” [Rachel V.A. Zook]
From: Newport; “home” [Philadelphia]; Hamilton (Bermuda); Denver (CO)
Topics include: social life; attending a wedding in Bloomsburg; health and treatment of her father; reading/books
Folder 116/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 8 letters, 1889-1891, 1904
To: “Strache” [Rachel V.A. Zook]; Mary F. Zook
From: “home” [Philadelhia]; Bethlehem; Jacksonville (FL);
Topics include: daily life; recuperative trip to the south; train travel; housekeeping
Folder 117/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 20 letters, n.d.
To: “Strache” [Rachel V.A. Zook]; Mary F. Zook
From: “home” [Philadelphia]; Denver (CO); Hibernia (FL)
Folder 118/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, Anne Flower, 20 letters, n.d.
To: “Strache” [Rachel V.A. Zook]; Mary F. Zook
From: Exton; Philadelphia; Asbury Park; Newport;
Folder 119/6/123 – Correspondence
Paul, 2 letters, 1892
Includes the following:
Paul, E.W., 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Rachel Zook
Paul, Margaret, 1 letter, 1892 to Mary [F. Zook]
Folder 120/6/123 – Correspondence
Percy, Florence D., 12 letters, 1879-1890
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Blue Ridge Spring (VA); Norfolk (VA); Vallejo (CA); Santa Barbara (CA); U.S.
Navy Hospital, Brooklyn (NY); Philadelphia (PA)
Topics include: flirting; daily life; marriage to a Navy doctor [Tucker Percy]; leisure; archery club; Christmas; boredom
Folder 121/6/123 – Correspondence
Percy, Florence D., 8 letters, n.d.
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Norfolk (VA); San Francisco (CA); Lynchburg (VA) Vallejo (CA);
Folder 122/6/123 – Correspondence
Perkins, J.D., 1 letter, 1883
To: “Miss Zook”
From: Coatesville
Folder 123/6/123 – Correspondence
Porter, Fannie [or Fanny], 19 letters, 1869-1891, 1914
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia; Swift Water (PA)
Topics include: Christmas gifts; reading/books; weight loss; sympathy letters for the deaths of Jason Zook Sr. [1891] and Elizabeth Zook [1914]
Folder 124/6/123 – Correspondence
Porter, Helen B., 22 letter, 1879-1891
To: Rachel V.A. Zook; Jane D. Zook
From: Norristown (PA); Philadelphia; Georgetown; Doylestown; Moscow (PA)
Topics include: leisure; social life; flirting; Christmas; gossip; marriage
Folder 125/6/123 – Correspondence
Price to Reeves, 11 letters, 1873-1887
Includes the following:
Price, Fannie S., 3 letters, 1873-1874 to Rachel V.A. Zook
Prichett, Mammie, 1 letter, 1887 (from Ardmore) to Jane D. Zook
Pugh, Edward, 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Reeve, Chas. D., 1 letter, 1884 (from Bridgeton, NJ) to “Miss Zook”
Reeves, Bessie R., 7 letters, 1885-1887 (from Ivy Hall Seminary; Bridgeton, NJ)
to Jane D. Zook
Richards, T.J., 1 letter, 1879 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Folder 126/7/123 – Correspondence
Includes the following:
Sanchat, Ella, 1 letter, 1889 (from Glen Loch) to Rachel Zook
Schell, Francis, 4 letters, 1882 (from New York; Long Beach) to Jane D. Zook;
Note: Jane D. Zook’s fiancée. The couple never married.
Schell, Helen, 1 letter, n.d. (from New York) to Jane D. Zook
Schell, Mary, 5 letters, 1881-1882 (from New York (NY); Mohonk Lake (NY)) to
Jane D. Zook; “Franky” [Schell]; Note: includes lists that appears to be related to wedding plans
Sellers, Jas. C., 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to [illegible[
Sharp, May B., 1 letter, n.d. (from London, England) to Jane D. Zook
Smith, Fred, 2 letters, 1884 (from Bridgeton, NJ) to “Miss Zook”
Smith, Lydia, 3 letters, n.d (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Stevens, J.F., 1 letter, 1886 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Stewart, [?], 1 letter, 1888 to “Jennie Zook”
Folder 127/7/123 – Correspondence
Stewart to Stone, 12 letters, 1865-1914
Includes the following:
Stewart, Margaret J., 8 letters, 1865-1868, n.d. to Mary F. Zook
Stone, L.A., 2 letter, n.d. to Jane D. Zook
Stone, Amy, 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Stone, Elizabeth A., 1 letter, 1914 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Folder 128/7/123 – Correspondence
Stone, Harry M., 18 letters, 1877-1881
Note: Author worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad
To: Jane D. Zook
From: Glen Loch (PA); Oakland (PA); Toms River (NJ); Lycoming County (PA); Point
Pleasant (NJ); Fort Wayne (IN)
Topics include: employment with a railroad company; description of co-workers
Folder 129/7/123 – Correspondence
Taber to Todd, 19 letters, 1879-1892
Includes the following:
Taber, W.T., 3 letters, 1882 (from New York) to Jane D. Zook
Tatum, Ashton R., 7 letters, 1879-1882 (from Philadelphia; Cumberland, MD;
Lancaster, PA; Cincinnati) to Jane D. Zook
Tatum, Richard, 1 letter, 1881 to Jane D. Zook
Thomas, K.G., 1 letter, 1880 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Thomas, M.C., 1 letter, 1887 (from Bryn Mawr) to Jane D. Zook
Thomas, Sydney E., 1 letter, n.d. (from Whitford) to Rachel A.V. Zook
Todd, Clara B., 5 letters, 1888, 1892, n.d. (from Washington, DC; Philadelphia)
to “girls”; Jane D. Zook
Folder 130/7/123 – Correspondence
Townsend, 5 letters, 1879-1892
Includes the following:
Townsend, J.B., 2 letter, 1892 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Townsend, Bessie P., 3 letters, 1879-1888 (from Overbrook, PA) to Jane D.
Zook
Folder 131/7/123 – Correspondence
Townsend, Eleanor, 18 letters, 1864-1872
To: Mary F. Zook
From: Philadelphia; “Greystone” [Overbrook, PA];
Topics include: school; reading/books; Christmas presents; social life; leisure; gossip
Folder 132/7/123 – Correspondence
Townsend, Eleanor, 19 letters, 1873-1881
To: Mary F. Zook
From: “Greystone” [Overbrook, PA]; Cape May (NJ);
Topics include: detailed description of a wedding; Christmas presents; social life; reading/books
Folder 133/7/123 – Correspondence
Townsend, Eleanor, 24 letters, 1884-1890, n.d.
To: Mary F. Zook;
From: “Greystone” [Overbrook, PA]; Moosehead Lake (ME)
Topics include: social life; reading/books; travel in New England
Folder 134/7/123 – Correspondence
Van Seer to Williamson, 23 letters, 1864-1889
Includes the following:
Van Seer, Mary, 3 letters, n.d. (from Downingtown) to Mary F. Zook
Walker, Mary, 9 letters, 1885-1886 (from Trappe, MD) to “Miss Zook”
Walsh, Mary L., 1 letter, 1889 (from Bethlehem, PA) to Jane D. Zook
Warden, Eleanor G., 1 letter, 1882 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Wayne, Frances C., 4 letters, 1887-1888 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook;
Rachel V.A. Zook
Wheeler, Mifflin, 3 letters, 1879-1880 (from Pottstown) to “Miss Zook”
Williamson, Annie L., 2 letters, 1864 (from Clifton, NJ) to Mary F. Zook
Folder 135/7/123 – Correspondence
Williams, Elizabeth M. (Lamb), 22 letters, 1881-1890
To: Rachel A.V. Zook; “Miss Zook”
From: Brookline, MA; Marblehead Neck, MA; Old Point Comfort, VA;
Folder 136/7/123 – Correspondence
Williams, Elizabeth M. (Lamb), 9 letters, n.d.
To: Rachel A.V. Zook; “Miss Zook”
From: Brookline, MA; Nantucket, MA
Folder 137/7/123 – Correspondence
Williams to Willits, 14 letters, 1873-1891
Includes the following:
Williams, Frances M., 1 letter, n.d. (from Vermont) to “Miss Zook”
Williams, Susan B., 1 letter, 1881 (from Exton) to “Miss Zook”
Willits, J.C., 1 letter, 1875 (from Philadelphia) to “friend”
Willits, Mabie, 6 letters, 1874 (from Philadelphia) to Mary [F. Zook]
Willits, Sarah, 2 letters, 1873-1874 (from Philadelphia) to Mary [F. Zook]
Wing, Asa S., 1 letter, 1889, 1891 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
Wing, Sophia R., 2 letter, 1884 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Folder 138/7/123 – Correspondence
Includes the following:
Wollerton, Sam H., 8 letters, 1880-1881 (from Blockley) to Jane D. Zook
Wood, Mary, 4 letters, 1878-1882 (from Germantown) to Jane D. Zook
Wood, Stuart, 2 letters, 1885, 1889 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel Zook
Young, Anna Cooper, 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to “Miss Zook”
Box 8
Folder 139/8/123 – Correspondence
Cape May… to Dunbar, 4 letters, 1872-1885
Includes the following:
Cape May Improvement Company, 1 letter, 1885 (Philadelphia, PA) to Rachel
V.A. Zook
Delahunty, John, 1 letter, 1883 (New York, NY) to Jane D. Zook
Dennis, Jane, 1 letter, 1872 (from West Chester, PA) to Rachel [V.A. Zook]
Dunbar, Chas. F., 1 letter, 1878 (from Abington) to “Miss Zook”
Folder 140/8/123 – Correspondence
Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 10 letters, 1885-1886
To: Mary F. Zook
From: New York
Folder 141/8/123 – Correspondence
Domestic… to Peter Wright & Sons, 20 letters, 1874-1890
Includes the following:
Domestic Com. Of Philadelphia Exchange for Women’s Work, 3 letters, 1888
(from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
First Day School Association, 1 letter, 1886 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A.
Zook
Flower Mission, 1 letter, 1874 (from Philadelphia) to “Miss Zook”
Harvard University Examinations for Women, 4 letters, 1878 (from
Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook; Note: Includes printed examination schedule
Henry, F.P., 1 letter, n.d. (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Lee, M.D., 1 letter, 1889 to Jacob M. Zook
Mercury, The, 3 letters, 1890 (from Philadelphia) to “Miss Zook”
New York Bureau of Revision, 2 letters, 1891 (from New York, NY) to Rachel
V.A. Zook; Note: Includes informational circular
Public Ledger, 1 letter, 1885 (from Philadelphia) to Rachel V.A. Zook
Reeves, Henry, 1 letter, 1883 (from Monroe County, PA) to “Miss Zook”
St. Nicholas, 1 letter, n.d., [form letter]
Peter Wright & Sons, 2 letter, 1886 (from Philadelphia) to Mary Zook
Series IV Zook, Non-correspondence
Box 8 (continued)
Folder 142/8/123 – Bills/Receipts
16 items
Folder 143/8/123 – Circulars/Pamphlets
4 items
Note: Includes a circular for Jane D. Zook’s Boarding and Day School in Philadelphia
Folder 144/8/123 – Invitations
6 items
Folder 145/8/123 – List of studies/books
2 items
Folder 146/8/123 – Miscellaneous
Folder 147/8/123 – Recipes
3 items
Folder 148/8/123 – Trade cards/calling cards
14 items
Folder 149/8/123 – Unidentified creative writing
Series V — Zook, Unidentified or partially identified
author; partial letters
Box 8 (continued)
Folder 150/8/123 – Correspondence
“E.A.W.” to “Anne”, 19 letters, 1867-1886
Includes the following:
“E.A.W.”, 3 letters, 1882-1884 (from Roadhouse, IL) to Rachel V.A. Zook
“E.P.R.”, 1 letter, 1887 (from [Seneca]) to “Miss Zook”
“J.A.H.”, 1 letter, 1885 (from Ivy Hall) to Mary Zook
“L.C.W.”, 1 letter, 1881 (from Exton) to Rachel [V.A. Zook]
“R.L.”, 1 letter, 1877 (from Philadelphia) to Mary Zook
“S.Y.C.W.”, 1 letter, 1886 (from Exton) to Mary Zook
“Annie J.”, 1 letter, n.d. to Mary Zook
“Anne”, 10 letters, 1867-1869, n.d. (from Philadelphia; Maple Grove) to Rachel
D. Zook, Mary Zook
Folder 151/8/123 – Correspondence
“Bettie” to “Elmira”, 8 letters, 1870-1882
Includes the following:
“Bettie”, 2 letters, 1874 (from Palo Alto, PA) to Mary F. Zook
“Caroline”, 2 letters, 1881-1882 (from Oaklands, NJ) to “Jen”
“Cornelia”, 2 letters, 1870-1872 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
“Grace”, 1 letter, 1879 (from Ireland) to Jane D. Zook
“Elmira”, 1 letter, 1872 to Mary [F. Zook]
Folder 152/8/123 – Correspondence
“Fan”/“Fanny”, 23 letters
To: “Cousin Mary” [F. Zook]; Rachel V.A. Zook
From: West Chester, PA; Berlin, MD; Exton
Folder 153/8/123 – Correspondence
“Hannah” to “Maggie”, 8 letters, 1856-1890
Includes the following:
“Hannah”, 1 letter, 1870 (from Philadelphia) to Jane D. Zook
“Helen”, 2 letters, 1883, 1887 (from Rosemont) to Jane D. Zook
“Josephine”, 1 letter, 1890 (from Lancaster) to Jacob M. Zook
“Julia C.”, 2 letters, 1879 (from Maplewood) to Jane D. Zook, Rachel V.A. Zook
“Kate”, 1 letter, 1856 to “my dear cousin”
“Maggie”, 1 letter, 1887 to “Miss Mary”[F. Zook]
Folder 154/8/123 – Correspondence
“Mary” to “Sarah”, 25 letters, 1863-1883
Includes the following:
“Mary”, 2 letters, 1863, 1883 (from Philadelphia) to “Mary”
“Minnie”, 14 letters, 1868-1877 (from Philadelphia; Palo Alto; Pittsburgh) to
Rachel V.A. Zook, Mary F. Zook
“Nellie”, 3 letters, 1866-1867 (from Philadelphia) to Mary [F. Zook]
“Rachel”, 1 letter, 1875 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
“Rebecca”, 3 letters, 1866, 1879 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
“Sarah”, 2 letters, 1874 (from Philadelphia) to Mary F. Zook
Folder 155/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 14 letters, 1860s/1870s
Folder 156/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 20 letters, 1880s
Folder 157/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 20 letters, 1880s
Folder 158/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 16 letters, 1880s
Folder 159/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 8 letters, 1890s
Folder 160/8/123 – Correspondence
Unidentified author, 16 letters, n.d.
Folder 161/8/123 – Correspondence
Partial letters, page(s) missing, 12 items
Box 9
Envelopes, 8 folders
225 N. High Street, West Chester, PA 19380 | 610-692-4800
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