Letter to William Smith

Object/Artifact

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Windham Textile and History Museum

Name/Title

Letter to William Smith

Entry/Object ID

2022.5.15

Description

Letter to Wm. Smith from an unknown correspondent. Dated 1894. A newspaper clipping is pasted to the letter, entitled "About the Baby." The correspondent adds further advice about caring for babies in her/his own handwriting: "Never lay awake nights with it. Give the baby everything it wants, even a Bicycle. Never lay on your back on the floor, and use the baby for a foot ball, for you will be sorry. She likes this. Never hold the baby, with your Sunday pants on, as accidents will happen, and last of all -- I do hate to see a man changing a Diaper. Don't do it."

Collection

Norton Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Letter

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Correspondence

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Material

Paper

Location

Location

Box

Documents: Norton Collection Boxes

Room

Dunham Hall Library Reading Room

* Untyped Location

Main Museum Building

Date

November 10, 2022

Provenance

Provenance Detail

Mary Noberta Smith Norton, Lake Compounce, Southington, CT.

Acquisition Method

Donation

Acquisition Date

2011

Created By

Eves, J.

Create Date

November 10, 2022

Updated By

Eves, J.

Update Date

November 10, 2022