Summary

Diaries and poetry of a woman from the Town of Brunswick, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, who later lived in the city of Eau Claire. The diaries, 1882-1920, relate in detail the daily activities of Miss Converse, her family (which included a brother, Royal William, 1829-?, and a sister, Clarissa, 1828-?), and friends. Two volumes of her poetry date 1896-1932. In 1939, Miss Converse married Thomas H. Rooke in Eau Claire.

Summary Papers of a woman who lived in Eau Claire, Wisconsin in the 1870s. The collection consists largely of letters, written principally by Ellen Spaulding Miller to family members who probably lived in New York. The letters reflect domestic life, family relationships, economic conditions, lumbering, religious revivals, and health conditions in the lumbering capital of northwestern Wisconsin. The Spaulding papers also include the booklet The Christian Minister's...