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Preferred Citation:

Vinda Elizabeth Kibler Letters, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase.

Processing Information:

Accessioned and minimally processed in December 2009 by Special Collections Staff. Processing completed by Jessica Kidwell in September 2014.

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Scope and Contents

Letters written to Vinda Elizabeth Kibler, also called Kitty or Elizabeth, between 1917-1924, while she was at Bridgewater College in Rockingham County (1917-1922), the State Teacher's College in Harrisonburg (1923), and at her teaching post in Front Royal, Virginia (1923-1924). Most letters are from her mother and father on their small farm in Woodville, Rappahannock County, Virginia. Also included are a number of letters from other relatives, businesses, and a pen pal in France.

Topics found in the letters include church happenings, town gossip, health, gardening, farm animals, farm work, weather, crops, and concern for Kibler's health and provisioning. Pressed flowers, yellow pansies, were found in two of the letters.

Arrangement of Materials:

Series 1 are letters from Kibler's parents, arranged in chronological order. Series 2 contains letters from other family members and  from non-family members, arranged by author, then chronologically.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Farm life
• French language
• Letters (correspondence)
• Parent and child
• Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century
• Women college students
• Women--Education--Virginia--History