Container List
Series I: Diaries
Scope and Contents noteThe materials in Series I cover the years 1873-1952, all but the earliest years of Elizabeth Robins's long life. Most of Robins's diaries record daily life at home, but she also wrote several volumes while traveling. Notable among these are her 1880 ""Summit, Rocky Mountains"" diary, kept while visiting her father at the Little Annie Gold Mining Company, Summit, Colorado; her 1900 diary from her journey to the Klondyke to find her brother Raymond Robins, who had gone in search of gold; and her 1905-1906 Chinsegut diary, written during a visit to Raymond Robins and Margaret Dreier Robins in Florida. These diaries are also important for tracing Robins's involvement in the women's suffrage movement. They record her involvement with the movement, especially with the Pankhursts and the WSPU. Of particular interest is a lengthy entry in which Robins describes October 10, 1912 meeting which would cause the Pethick-Lawrences to split away from the Pankhursts. Robins often used her diaries as sources for her literary works, as evidenced by some of the annotations in the volumes. She also wrote about the books she was working on, so the diaries show some of the questions she was grappling with concerning the characters and plots of her works. |
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Subseries A: Diaries
Scope and Contents noteThis subseries consists of Robins's diaries from the time she was fourteen years old (1876) to the last year of her life (1952). This subseries is remarkably complete with the exception of the 1890's. Robins did not always write lengthy diary entries, but she wrote often, which allows one to piece together many of her activities over the years. Sometimes she would skip days of writing in her diaries, then compensate for those periods by filling in the blank pages from memory. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
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| Box: 1 | Folder : 1 | 1876, January-March; 1880, December-1881, January |
1876 - 1881 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 2 | 1880, May-August |
1880 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 3 | 1880, August and September
General note"Summit Rocky Mountains" |
1880 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 4 | 1881, January, February and August-December |
1881 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 5 | 1882 |
1882 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 6 | 1883; 1884; 1885 |
1883 - 1885 | |
| Box: 1 | Folder : 7 | 1886 |
1886 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 8 | 1887 |
1887 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 9 | 1888, January-May |
1888 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 10 | 1888, June-September |
1888 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 11 | 1888, August
General noteNorwegian trip |
1888 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 12 | 1888, September-1889, January |
1888 -1889 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 13 | 1889-1894
General noteOccasional entries. Includes notes about "Katherine Fleets," an unfinished novel. |
1889 -1894 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 14 | 1889, Janurary-May |
1889 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 15 | 1889, June-October |
1889 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 16 | 1889, September |
1889 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 17 | 1890, January-June |
1890 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 18 | 1890, July-December |
1890 | |
| Box: 2B | Folder : 18A | 1891
General noteNotes and calendar. |
1891 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 19 | 1892, February 20
General noteDiary pages |
1892 | |
| Box: 2A | Folder : 19A | 1894
General noteNotes and calendar. |
1894 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 20 | 1894, December-1896 |
1894 -1896 | |
| Box: 3 | Folder : 21 | 1894-1914
General noteYearly entries. |
1894 -1914 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 22 | 1899
General noteSwitzerland trip. |
1899 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 23 | 1900, April-November and 1901, February |
1900 -1901 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 24 | 1900, June |
1900 | |
| Box: 4 | Folder : 25 | 1901-1902, June |
1901 -1902 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 26 | 1904-1908, 1926
General noteOccasional entries. |
1904 -1926 | |
| Box: 5 | Folder : 27 | 1905, December-1906, February
General noteChinsegut Diary. |
1905 -1906 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1907, September-December |
1907 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1908, February, April-December |
1908 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1909-1910
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1909 -1910 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1911 |
1911 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1912 |
1912 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1913 |
1913 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1914 |
1914 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1915 |
1915 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1916 |
1916 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1917 |
1917 | |
| Box: 6 | Folder : | 1918 |
1918 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1919 |
1919 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1920
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1920 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1921 |
1921 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1922
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1922 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1923 |
1923 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1924, January, February, May-December |
1924 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1925 |
1925 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1926
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1926 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1927 |
1927 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1928 |
1928 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1929 |
1929 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1920 |
1920 | |
| Box: 7 | Folder : | 1931
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1931 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1932
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1932 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1933
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1933 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1934 |
1934 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1935
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1935 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1936 |
1936 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1937 |
1937 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1938 |
1938 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1939 |
1939 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1940, January-March, June-July
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1940 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1940, August-October |
1940 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1940, October-1941, February |
1940 -1941 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1941, February-December
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1941 | |
| Box: 8 | Folder : | 1942, March-July
General noteOccasional entries. |
1942 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1943
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1943 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1944
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1944 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1945
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1945 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1947 |
1947 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1948
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1948 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1949 |
1949 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1951
General noteSome materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 1. |
1951 | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | 1952 |
1952 | |
Subseries B: Engagement Books
Scope and Contents noteWhile some of the engagement books in this subseries are nearly blank, others contain pages full of her notes and are helpful to use in conjunction with the diaries. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 9 | Folder : | Address Books
General note3 volumes. |
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| Box: 9 | Folder : | Theatrical Diary, 1885-1886 |
1885 -1886 | |
| Box: 10 | Folder : | 1892-1912, 1916-1920, 1922-1925
General note30 volumes. |
1891 -1925 | |
Subseries C: Notebooks
Scope and Contents noteSubseries C contains notebooks dating back to 1873, when Robins was eleven years old. There are composition books from her time at the Putnam Female Seminary in Ohio, as well as records of books she read and a drawing book from 1879-1880. Also in this series are thirty-three volumes of small notebooks ranging in date from 1877-1940. |
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| Container 1 | Container 2 | Title | Date | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 1 | Compositions, 1873-1874
General noteLegal size materials removed, see Box 13, Folder 13. |
1873 -1874 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 2 | Composition Book, 1874 |
1874 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 3 | Composition Book, 1875 |
1875 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 4 | Composition Book, 1881 |
1881 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 5 | School Copy Book
General notePutnam Seminary. |
Undated | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 6 | Drawing Book, 1879-1880 |
1879 -1880 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 7 | List of Books Read, 1879-1880; Family Genealogy
General noteSee back of book for genealogy. |
1879 -1880 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 8 | List of Books Read, 1881-1882 |
1881 -1882 | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 9 | "Odds and Ends" |
1880 -1881? | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 10 | Notebook |
n.d. | |
| Box: 11 | Folder : 11 | Notebook |
n.d. | |
| Box: 12 | Folder : | Small Notebooks, 1877-1940
General note35 volumes. |
1877 -1940 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 13 | Composition Book, 1873-1874, n.d |
1873 1874 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 14 | List of Books Read, 1895 |
1895 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 1 | Materials Removed from Diaries, 1911-1951 |
1911 -1951 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 2 | Statement about the accuracy of Elizabeth Robins' account of herself, 16 March 1895 |
1895 | |
| Box: 13 | Folder : 3 | "To G.R.P."
General noteG.R.P. is George Richmond Parks. |
1912 | |
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