Vassar College Student Diaries
Adee, Ellen (Skeel). Diary, 1869-1870
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1869-1870
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Abstract
Much of this volume focuses on Adee's year-long absence from Vassar College due to sickness, presumably typhoid fever. Adee became sick in October, 1868, during the first semester of her senior year. She spent a short time at Vassar's infirmary before returning home to her family in Balmville, a
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