Handwritten Diary-Berwick ME/Somersworth NH Wife/Mother-Smith College Alum.-1909

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Handwritten Diary of Mrs. Grace Hyde Ricker, of Berwick, Maine, the wife of banker Frederick Smith Ricker, Cashier of the First National Bank of Somersworth, New Hampshire, for the year 1909. She is the daugher of the Rev. Henry Hyde of Berwick, Maine, pastor of the First Congegational Church of Somersworth, NH. She was married by her father in 1904 and by 1906 had given birth to her second daughter. .... She is an alumna of Smith College. ... Long full-page entries for every day of the year. Misc. ephemera/newspaper clippings laid-in. Clean and in very good condition. Approx. 3.5" x 6." ... I also have several of her sister Maude's diaries and her daughter Carolyn's diaries listed. ... Combined shipping if one wins multiple diaries. ... This is a sophisticated upper middle-class woman from a prominent New England family.