Chelsea White

Fanny and Nathaniel: Love in the Library

Chelsea White, past AAS intern and present Simmons MLS student, has transcribed a diary from AAS's collections that will become our newest Line-a-Day blog debuting with the new year. Here is her introduction: If you’ve enjoyed reading the A Day in the Life of a Blacksmith or the A Day in the Life of a Schoolmarm ...

Dispatch from an AAS Intern: 19th-Century Children’s Letterwriting

These days you would be more likely to encounter a young child e-mailing or texting than writing a letter to a family correspondent. Many believe that letter writing is a lost art in the digital age. It is certainly romanticized in films and books but in the 19th century household correspondence was an ...