What's online?
The entire collection is digitized and available online.
What's in the entire collection?
The collection consists of a daily diary kept by Ann P. Sharples in 1883. The diary records her daily activities such as caring for her mother and giving her treatments for her pain. The diary also documents visits from family and friends, household chores, and errands.
About Ann P. Sharples.
Ann P. Sharples (1846-1925) was a Quaker who lived in West Chester, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Mary A. Paschall (1815-1885) and Phillip P. Sharples (1819-1902) and the granddaughter of Ann Price Gibson Paschall Jackson (1792-1874), a Quaker minister. Ann P. Sharples did not marry or have children.