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Preferred Citation

Frost Family Papers, Special Collections Research Center, William & Mary Libraries.

Scope and Contents

15 Photographs of various Frost family members and their pet cats, a book of poems by Jean Esther Frost, an article cut out from the Maxwell's Homeaker written by G. Howard Frist, a first drawing from Marion, presumable when a child which was kept by Jean Esther, Boston University Commencement Exercises program from 1937 featuring Marion Eleanor Frost, and a letter to Ms. Frost thanking her for her donations to the City of Newton, Mass. for the Jackson homestead. There is also an outline of a diary from 1893 through 1955 which details major events of the unidentified Frost's years including high school graduation, the birth of Marion, the purchasing and selling of vehicles, community and social events, major events in the United States, like the stock market crash, and the onset of the Second World War.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Frost, Marion Eleanor, 1909-
• Women--Diaries
• Women--United States--Poetry