Mann, Mary Maud

Scope and Contents This collection is divided into three series, but largely consists of diaries and transcripts of two Oberlin students from the 1880s. The collection contains little biographical information of either woman, apart from what can be gleamed from the everyday occurrences in their diaries. Close and Mann were evidently friends, as well as cousins. Close’s diary mentions a “Maud” quite frequently, and as Mann’s student file lists her as “M. Maud Mann,” it is quite likely that...