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Correspondence with parents

subseries1951-1974, 1987F-176-1-1

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Simon Fraser University Archives and Records Management Department via Simon Fraser University Archives & Special Collections
Dates
1951-1974, 1987 (indexed as 1951–1987)
Level
subseries
Extent
47 cm of textual records 2 photographs
Scope & content
Sub-series consists of Ann Messenger's correspondence with her parents, Raymond and Lillian Parshall. Correspondence includes letters written to her parents while she was studying at Oberlin College, Oxford University, and Cornell University. Correspondence also includes letters written while Messenger was working at Princeton University and after her marriage to Bill Messenger, while living in Philadelphia, California, and Vancouver, British Columbia. Includes details of Messenger's daily activities, including social and academic activities, her experiences as a young woman in the 1950s and 1960s, travels in Europe, and the general culture of the time. Vancouver correspondence refers to Ann and Bill's experiences as young professors at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University. Sub-series also includes letters written to Ann, and Bill, by her parents between 1957 and 1974.
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Subjects
Raymond Parshall; Lillian Parshall
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2026-10-15T11:03:30Z · source datestamp n/a · ead
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