Jenine Bates was raised in the industrial town of Westfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of William Bates, a banker with a notable interest in secondary education. When she married, Jenine moved to Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, a smaller but still thriving valley town, where she lived for the next thirty years.
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Jenine Bates Greenough correspondence, Ms. 2010.027, Brown University Library.
This collection includes the correspondence of Jenine Bates Greenough and of her father, William Bates. Notable correspondents include Horace Mann, Edward Everett (governor of Massachusetts, 1835-1839) and Edward Dickinson (father of Emily Dickenson). The bulk of Greenough’s letters reflect the thirty years she spent in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts, giving a portrait of the life of a scholarly woman in a small New England town. These letters are intended to compliment the Emily Dickinson collection.
The letters show no real arrangement; some are grouped by correspondent, some by date.
Gift: N. David Scotti, April 1999. A99-110.