Overview Sixty-six letters from Letters from Maria Chabot to Irene Zelinski, Oct. 19, 1955 – Aug. 19, 1956 are contained in this box. Five letters, Oct. 19, 1955 – Feb. 15, 1956, written by Chabot to Zelinski after Zelinski has left her to go with Georgeanna Wight to San Francisco. The first two letters are written from Texas, where Chabot is with her mother. The letter of Feb. 8 is written from Los Luceros in New Mexico, where most of the other letters originate. This letter has two versions of its...

Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: The Maria Chabot Papers contains materials collected by Maria Chabot. Included are personal records; diaries and travel diaries; extensive correspondence dating from 1933 to 2001 with colleagues, family, and friends; interviews with Chabot; photographs, slides, and negatives; notebooks, research notes, writings, brochures, photocopies, and other miscellaneous papers; as well as a small number of materials related to Chabot family history including family albums, histories, photographs and...