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Fitzgerald, Pattie

 Person

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Pattie Fitzgerald Diary

 Collection — Box Small Collections Box 118
Identifier: SC 01727
Content Description A forty-seven page diary of a Virginia woman named Pattie Fitzgerald. Alongside school, courting, friends and family, Fitzgerald writes about darker things. She mentions feelings of hopelessness, a murder, and nightmares. Death is the focus of several entries.There are two notes, one letter, and a dried posy in the front of the diary. Fitzgerald practiced signing her name, with several different last names, on the back of the front cover. Content warnings for thoughts...
Dates: April 19th, 1872 - March 27th, 1883.