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Charles Adshead Wright collection
The Wright Family Papers recount the story of an American family coming of age in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The story is told through the recollections and writings of Charles Adshead Wright, who began compiling his memoirs in 1923, at the age of twenty-four. He titled his project, “...
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| Collection: | Charles Adshead Wright Collection |
| Collection Number: | 3013 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | Link to finding aid |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Wright, Charles Adshead |e creator | |
| 245 | 1 | |a Charles Adshead Wright collection |f 1810-1982 | |
| 300 | |a 14.0 Linear feet |f 14 linear feet, 33 boxes, 6 flat files | ||
| 520 | |a The Wright Family Papers recount the story of an American family coming of age in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The story is told through the recollections and writings of Charles Adshead Wright, who began compiling his memoirs in 1923, at the age of twenty-four. He titled his project, “The Story of a Life,” and noted, “It will be my purpose to record daily the experiences which I have had, and my own personal reaction to those experiences.” His project went through several revisions and periods of dormancy in the subsequent years, but continued with the support of his family, who inspired him to write additional chapters that gave a chronological account of all of the activities of the Wright family. He illustrated the text with family photographs, clippings, holiday cards, and other ephemera, so that by 1987 the “Wright Family History” occupied 108 binders and spanned nearly 172 years in the life of an American family. | ||
| 541 | 1 | |a Gift of Charles Edward Wright; 2001 acquired | |
| 555 | |a Finding Aid Available Online: | ||
| 852 | |a The Historical Society of Pennsylvania |b Charles Adshead Wright Collection |l 3013 | ||
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |y Link to finding aid |u http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/findingaid3013wright.pdf |