• Classification Number: 3P
• Title of Record Series: Edith Souther Tufts Papers
• Record Group: Faculty
• Date: September 13, 1979
• Accession Number: A76-47
• Sub Group: Individuals
• Source: Anne B. Tufts
• Restrictions: none
• Volume: 4 boxes

Papers of Edith Souther Tufts, class of 1884 (enrolled in a five-year music program at Wellesley, 1881-1885); instructor in Greek from 1893 to 1894 and 1902 to 1909; Registrar of the College from 1903 to 1919; Dean of Residence from 1919 to 1930; Dean emerita from 1930 until her death in 1935; the papers, having been arranged by Miss Tufts' niece, Anne B. Tufts of Dover, New Hampshire into a number of groups, each group accompanied by a list including the names of correspondents, dates and excerpts from the letters (along with background information in some instances) were maintained in these groupings. The papers date from 1881 to 1934; consist of correspondence, invitations, programs, pamphlet, travel diary and clippings; concerning Edith Tufts' life and friend-ships at Wellesley, family, teaching at Dana Hall, graduate study at Yale, and later work at Wellesley as Dean of Residence; with materials of particular interest on Miss Pendleton's travels in the Orient and in the United States, the Tarbell portrait of Edith S. Tufts, Thomas Collier Clark, Honorary Degree [D.Sc.] Award to Annie Jump Cannon '84 at Oxford University (1925), Miss Tufts' illness (1929) and visit to Europe (1933-1934).

• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts: List of letters from friends and Wellesley classmates, 1881-1885
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts 1881-1882) (letters from Mary Emerson)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts 1883 (letters from Mary Emerson, Susie [?])
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1884) (letters from Belle and Mary Emerson)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1884 cont.) (letters from Mary Emerson)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1885 (letters from Belle Emerson, Mary Emerson, Amelia Hall)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1885, cont.) (letters from L. F. Clark, Belle Emerson, Mary Emerson, Amelia Hall)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1885, cont.) (letters from Belle Emerson, Amelia Hall)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1886) (letters from Belle Emerson, Mary Emerson, Amelia Hall; list enclosed)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts 1886 cont.)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts 1889) (letters from Angie C. Chapin, Mary Emerson, Mr. & Mrs. Emerson, Amelia Hall; list enclosed)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1890) (letters from Belle Emerson, Mary Emerson, Amelia Hall; list enclosed)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1894) (letters from Grace A. Andrews, Caroline Cook, Charlotte Greenbank)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts (1899) (letter from S.P. Ferry); list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts, undated. (List enclosed)
• Letters not included on lists (from Dora Emerson and Amelia Hall, [n.d.] and 1891)
• Photographs of Edith Souther Tufts and Family [n.d.]
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family: List of letters 1884-1889
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1884, 1886-1887)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Jan. 1888)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Feb.-March, 1888)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (April-Play, 1888)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (June-Oct. 1888)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Nov.-Dec. 1888)

• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Jan.-Feb. 1889)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (March-April, 1889)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (May, 1889)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (June-Sept. 1889)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Oct.-Dec. 1889)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family: List of letters, 1887-1899
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1887, 1888)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1889, 1890, 1891, 1892)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1894)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Jan. 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Feb. 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (March-May, 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (June-Sept. 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Oct. 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (Nov. - Dec. 1895)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1896)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1898)
• Letters from Edith Souther Tufts to her family (1899)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from Charles A. Tufts (1887-95) and Annie Blanchard Tufts (1887-94) (her parents); list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from George B. Tufts (brother) (1889-92), Arthur Gilman Tufts (brother) (1907); list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from John Foster Tufts (nephew) (1890-1902), Charles Gilman Tufts (nephew) (1893-[1902?]); list enclosed

• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from George Henry Tufts (nephew) ([1892?], 1896-1932), Anne Blanchard Tufts (niece) (1900¨1934); list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from John Souther Tufts (grandnephew), Laurence T. Tufts (grandnephew), Georgiana Blanchard Tufts (grandniece), Mary Gilman Tufts (grandniece) (1916-32); list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from her family: Letters from other relatives (1862-1897, [1918?]); list enclosed. Includes letters from relatives to Charles A. & Annie B. Tufts
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts: List of letters from Thomas C. Clark to Edith Souther Tufts, 1888-1895
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1888 1889) Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1890 Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1891) Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1893)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1893 cont.)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1894)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Thomas C. Clark (1895)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts: List of letters from Ellen Fitz Pendleton to Edith Souther Tufts, 1890-1926
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Ellen Fitz Pendleton (1890, 1918, April¨-October 1919)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Ellen Fitz Pendleton (Nov. 1919-Aug. 1922)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Ellen Fitz Pendleton (1926, 1927, undated)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from Katharine Lee Bates (1902), Mary Caswell (1902), Angie C. Chapin (1902), Charlotte Conant (1900), Sarah P. East¨man (1885-1889), Margaret E. Stratton (from Europe, 1885-1893), Press Item [n.d.]; list enclosed
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts: List of letters written to Edith Souther Tufts from friends, post-1914
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from: Dr. Edward Bancroft, Katharine Lee Bates, Marion Cooks, Louise A. Dennison, Sarah P. Eastman, Mary Emerson, Mar Ewing, Louisa and William Gilman, Mary W. Humphrey Hadley. (1914-1925; Includes transcript of 1925 speech awarding Annie Jump Cannon '84 the D.Sc. Honorary Degree at Oxford University

• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from: Amelia Hall, Caroline Hazard, Nellie W. and George W. Howe. (1899-1926, undated)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from: Frances L. Knapp, Ella McCaleb, Nordenstienne-Zickerman, M.M. Pickering, Mrs. Frances Taft Pyke, Eleanor Sherwin, Dr. David Smith, Candace C. Stimson, M.D. Symonds, Edith A. True, Alice Waite, Dr. Paul Dudley White. (undated, 1915-1926)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts from: Elizabeth R. Whiting, Sarah Frances Whiting, Mary Hale Young ("Minnie"), (undated, 1915-25); Notes and Christmas Cards from various people (undated, 1929)
• Letters to Edith Souther Tufts regarding portrait (1919-20) (from various people; list enclosed)
• Journal of Edith Souther Tufts' European Trip (December, 1933-May, 1934) (Index of people mentioned enclosed)
• Diaries (1903-1907, 1914-1918)