Collection Scope and Content Note

Primarily letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner to members of her family and friends concerning her personal life and her professional career as a social worker and professor. Also, photographs, official identification papers, her student essays, pamphlets, poems, prayers and memorabilia; and correspondence of other family members and friends, including letters written by Elizabeth Gardiner's mother, Eliza Doane Gardiner, to Ellen Parkman Vaughan.