Elizabeth begins volunteering at Barnes Hospital. In late January 1943 she departs St. Louis for Phoenix. Helly, her seventeen-year-old daughter, begins to date. Elizabeth writes that Betsy saw her father on April 16, 1943, and again on May 4, June 23, and September 24. Elizabeth visits Hartford and New York for two weeks in late May/early June to visit friends, see shows, and shop. She returns to New York in August. On August 14, 1943, she writes of her daughter’s aspirations, “Betts has new notion – flying.” Betsy begins flying school on September 2. On November 5, Elizabeth writes that she went to an apple orchard in Illinois and was “arrested on way home.” In December she sees an oculist to “cure miopia.”, 1943

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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.