Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p This collection contains the correspondence of five generations of the Dreier family. It includes correspondence between single members of the Dreier family and correspondence with related families and other persons, as well as the private papers of single family members and handwritten poems (most written on the occasion of family celebrations). The collection offers insight into the life of a relatively wealthy north German family of merchants and pastors: its economic conditions and social life; the relationship among spouses, siblings, parents and their children; the intellectual background of single family members; the treatment of diseases and cases of death (foremost of children), as well as taking cures at health resorts in Germany; education and schooling; and contemporary politics. Due to the fact that one couple (two cousins) and two other family members went to the United States (with quite different economic success) in the middle of the 19th century, the collection is also a source for the history of emigration from Germany to America, and provides some documentation of the American Civil War. Particularly interesting is the correspondence of women of the third and fourth generation with their mothers or daughters, where pregnancy, birth, or the loss of children and their education play an important role. The correspondence is in the German cursive writing of the 19th century and is extremely difficult to read without training.. }
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- catalog abstract "This collection contains the correspondence of five generations of the Dreier family. It includes correspondence between single members of the Dreier family and correspondence with related families and other persons, as well as the private papers of single family members and handwritten poems (most written on the occasion of family celebrations). The collection offers insight into the life of a relatively wealthy north German family of merchants and pastors: its economic conditions and social life; the relationship among spouses, siblings, parents and their children; the intellectual background of single family members; the treatment of diseases and cases of death (foremost of children), as well as taking cures at health resorts in Germany; education and schooling; and contemporary politics. Due to the fact that one couple (two cousins) and two other family members went to the United States (with quite different economic success) in the middle of the 19th century, the collection is also a source for the history of emigration from Germany to America, and provides some documentation of the American Civil War. Particularly interesting is the correspondence of women of the third and fourth generation with their mothers or daughters, where pregnancy, birth, or the loss of children and their education play an important role. The correspondence is in the German cursive writing of the 19th century and is extremely difficult to read without training.".
- catalog description "This collection contains the correspondence of five generations of the Dreier family. It includes correspondence between single members of the Dreier family and correspondence with related families and other persons, as well as the private papers of single family members and handwritten poems (most written on the occasion of family celebrations). The collection offers insight into the life of a relatively wealthy north German family of merchants and pastors: its economic conditions and social life; the relationship among spouses, siblings, parents and their children; the intellectual background of single family members; the treatment of diseases and cases of death (foremost of children), as well as taking cures at health resorts in Germany; education and schooling; and contemporary politics. Due to the fact that one couple (two cousins) and two other family members went to the United States (with quite different economic success) in the middle of the 19th century, the collection is also a source for the history of emigration from Germany to America, and provides some documentation of the American Civil War. Particularly interesting is the correspondence of women of the third and fourth generation with their mothers or daughters, where pregnancy, birth, or the loss of children and their education play an important role. The correspondence is in the German cursive writing of the 19th century and is extremely difficult to read without training.".