(PAPERS, 1906-09)
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The papers consist mainly of letters Mabel wrote to her family while a student at Oberlin College. She lived in Stewart Hall, Lord Cottage and Talcott Hall, and thus tells of life in a girls dormitory. The subjects she writes about include parties and "spreads," her friends, a few teachers (Professor of German, Arletta M. Abbott, for example), rules broken (4-8-06), lectures by Dean of College Women, Florence M. Fitch, horseplay, being a proctor in Lord Cottage, her interest in President King's son Philip (1908), being entertained by two faculty wives (3-4-08), a winning debate and the celebration that followed, plays, stunts, literary society activities, trouble in a sociology class caused by a student assistant, celebration af ter a debate (3-7-09), and the senior prom (5-9-09). There are also several letters written from Cortland (1908) plus a few letters that Mabel received from members of her family.
PROVENANCE:
After Mr. Dray's death in 1984 the letters were found by a Hiram College professor in the Dray home in Warren, Ohio. Shortly thereafter the letters were given to Oberlin.
For more information about Mabel L. Shaw Dray and the discovery of her letters see first folder in box.
Note: Entry taken from William E. Bigglestone's unpublished "[preliminary] Guide to the Oberlin College Archives," which was prepared as individual entry sheets in a three-ring binder during the early 1980s.
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