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...JULIA NEWBERRY'S DIARY-Introduction by Margaret Ayer Barnes & Janet Ayer Fairbank-Norton...
...faint, & have inheirited a fortune. Have been through a long illness & had a terrible sorrow! And I might have been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her 17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous than most of its kind, may seem surprisingly lively to modern readers who put family albums on a level with comic strips. It will be of special interest...
...Julia Newberry was born with a good-sized silver spoon in her good-sized mouth. When her father died he left his wife and two daughters so well off that they could easily afford $60,000 to make over their town house into what everyone said was "the handsomest house in Chicago." The hall was 70 ft. long, and Julia had her own "studio." with a private staircase. They could also afford to leave it for summers in Richfield Springs, N. Y., visits to Utica, Manhattan, St. Augustine, Fla., extended grand tours abroad. Their U. S. travels were of course...
...JULIA L. DARLINGTON Indianapolis...
Peter Shuebruk '33, of Cohasset, and Henry Caraway Hatfield '33, of Evanston, Illinois, were made recipients of the Charles and Julia Henry scholarships, which provide for a year of study at Oxford University, according to an announcement last night. The names of two Yale seniors, E. V. Rostow and J. W. Hastie, who will go abroad are announced at the same time...