Typescript letter signed W.S. Chaplin, chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis, to Miss Phoebe Couzins, St. Louis. Contains the text of the resolution passed by the Washington University board of directors in 1868, stating that law school applicants should not be refused admission based on their sex. Verso contains newspaper clipping titled “Miss Couzins’ Comment. She Points Out the Difference at the White House ‘Then and Now,’” dated March 18, 1893. (2 pages), 1902 Nov 17

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 4

Identifier: D00656

Staff Only

Typescript letter signed W.S. Chaplin, chancellor, Washington University, St. Louis, to Miss Phoebe Couzins, St. Louis, November 17, 1902

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Couzins Family Papers contain papers relating to John E.D. Couzins’s efforts to hold Missouri in the Union during the Civil War, including letters, commissions, and a loyalty oath; papers relating to Mrs. Adaline Couzins’s work as a volunteer nurse during the Civil War, including printed memorials to the U.S. Senate, dated March 27, 1888, praising her work; papers relating to Phoebe Couzins, including articles and addresses by her; correspondence and articles regarding Couzins family history; and photocopies of newspaper clippings, many of which appear to have been copied from a family scrapbook, mostly relating to J.E.D. Couzins and Phoebe Couzins.