Elizabeth goes to Key West on January 16, 1941. The family continues to fix up the farm with help throughout the spring, summer, and fall in between her usual social schedule. She writes in late September about spending time with a “cowboy.” She visits her mother in St. Louis again that fall and they travel to Ft. Myers, Florida. On November 12, 1941, she “saw a lawyer about a divorce.”, 1941

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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.