Summary: Manuscript diary of Elizabeth Cowperthwaite of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The first entry is dated "November 29th/57" and the last appears to be Thursday, December 2, 1858. The diary serves as a forum for spiritual reflection and self-evaluation, as well as for making moral resolutions. The weather conditions and daily activities are often recorded, and there are many commentaries on literature as well as anxieties about whether she will marry.

Physical description: 1 volume

Cite as: Elizabeth Cowperthwaite Diary, 1857-1858, Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library

Held by: Department of Special Collections, Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania [call number: Ms. Coll. 174]

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Table of Contents

• Epigraph

• Dated entries

  1857			1858
  (January)	(February)	(March)	January	(February)	March
  (April)	(May)	(June)	April	May	June
  (July)	(August)	(September)	(July)	August	September
  (October)	November	December	October	November	December