- Table of Contents
- Collection Summary
- Administrative Information
- Access:
- Publication Rights:
- Biographical Note
- Scope and Content Note
- Acquisition Information
- Container List
Ella Brown Russell Papers
Collection Summary
- Repository
- University of Vermont Libraries Special Collections Burlington, Vermont 05405-3596
- Creator
- Russell, Ella Brown
- Title
- Ella Brown Russell Papers
- Dates [inclusive]
- 1931-1979
- Shelf location
- For current information on the location of these materials, please contact Special Collections.
- Language
- English
- Abstract
- The collection consists almost entirely of Mrs. Russell's journals from 1932 to 1976. In addition to their accounts of her daily life, the journals also contain frequent extended reflections on national and world affairs, literature, society, and art.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Ella Brown Russell Papers, Special Collections, University of Vermont Library.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections © 2001
Access:
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights:
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Ella Brown Russell, Brattleboro VT, 1978, 1980.
Biographical Note
Born in Manchester Depot, Vermont, on April 2, 1898, Ella Brown grew up on a farm in nearby Arlington. After attending high school in Roxbury, Massachusetts, she took a one-year secretarial course at Northampton Commercial College, and worked at Massachusetts Agricultural College for two years before marrying Howard Leigh Russell in 1918. The Russells lived in Detroit and Pennsylvania until Mr. Russell's death in 1951, when Mrs. Russell moved to Sarasota, Florida. She returned to Manchester, VT, in 1973, and five years later moved to Brattleboro.
Scope and Content Note
The collection consists almost entirely of Mrs. Russell's journals from 1932 to 1976. In addition to their accounts of her daily life, the journals also contain frequent extended reflections on national and world affairs, literature, society, and art. The locales of the various years of the journals are: Detroit, 1932 - 34; Pennsylvania, 1934 - 43; Chicago, 1943 - 49; Sarasota, Florida, 1950 - 73; and Manchester and Brattleboro, VT, 1973 - 80.
Controlled Access Headings
Genre(s)
- Diaries
Geographic Name(s)
- Brattleboro (Vt.)