Elizabeth gets sick [after surgery] in a hospital in late March 1933. On March 31, 1933, she writes, “Scared stiff. Out between 10 and 1. Had private nurse and cling to her skirts thru rough passage.” She travels to Rome with her daughters and parents in May 1933, then on to Florence. She keeps writing and looks for work in New York in early October 1933 without success., 1933

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The collection contains 14 diaries written by Elizabeth Nulsen Young. The diaries cover the years 1917 to 1976 and briefly list her day-to-day activities. Each diary includes five years, with the exception of one travel diary of a trip to Europe in 1956 and the last diary (1976), which only contains one calendar year.