02853mpc  2200373   4500001000800000005001700008008004100025035002400066035002200090040002400112100003700136245004300173300003900216340007300255351004500328533003700373533007600410535003900486535011800525545084800643520062101491555001702112524011102129600001902240600002602259600003902285600002802324610003302352650002202385650002402407655001802431905002102449998000902470210347619991014120000.0840622i18651938nyu                 eng d  a(CStRLIN)NYCV84A969  a(NIC)notisAKU2669  aNICcNICeappmdNIC1 aWhite, Helen Magill,d1853-1944.00aHelen Magill White papers,f1865-1938.  a7.6 cubic ft.,b6 reels microfilm.  aCollection includes 3 reels negative and 3 reels positive microfilm.  3Correspondence arranged chronologically.  3Diariesaavailable on microfilm.  3Cambridge correspondence (Box 2, Folders 8-16)aavailable on microfilm.1 3Diaries:aoriginals held by donor.2 3Cambridge correspondence:amicrofilm copy available at Newnham College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.  aHelen Magill completed her Ph.D. in Greek in 1877 at Boston University. She served as principal of the Howard Collegiate Institute, a girls' school in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts; taught briefly at Evelyn College, a short-lived women's annex to Princeton University; and taught physical geography at Brooklyn High School. In September 1887, while presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Social Science Association, she met Andrew Dickson White, a friend of her father, Edward Hicks Magill, then president of Swarthmore College. This meeting was the beginning of a friendship which led to marriage in 1890. She administered their household and traveled with White to Russia and Germany. After White's death in 1918, she lived abroad and in Ithaca, New York, and then retired to Kittery Point, Maine, where she died in 1944.  aIncludes Magill family correspondence, 1865-90; correspondence between Helen and a childhood friend, Eva Channing; letters and other papers pertaining to Helen's work as principal of Howard Institute; letters between Helen and A. D. White before and after their marriage; letters to Helen from friends; correspondence with White's children from his first marriage; correspondence with Karin, Helen's daughter; and microfilm of 19 diaries, 1867-1933. Also includes correspondence of A. D. White; notebooks, bills, and receipts, invitations to and menus from diplomatic affairs, Christmas cards, and a diplomatic case.0 aFolder list.  aHelen Magill White papers, #4107. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.10aChanning, Eva.10aMagill, Edward Hicks.10aWhite, Andrew Dickson,d1832-1918.10aWhite, Karin Andreevna.20aHoward Collegiate Institute. 0aWomenxEducation. 0aWomen in education. 7aDiaries.2aat  a19991014120000.0  s9554