Collection number: MC 156

Size: 2 boxes (0.66 cu.ft.)

About Eliot Grant Fitch

Eliot Grant Fitch, son of Grant Fitch, a well-known successful banker at the National Exchange Bank in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, attended St. Paul’s School in Concord, New Hampshire between 1910-1913. While at St. Paul’s, Fitch wrote his mother on an almost daily basis. Although he was an enthusiastic young man who was involved in many extra-curricular activities, including football, hockey, and squash, Fitch was a mediocre student of Latin, Algebra, Geometry, English, German, and French. After attending St. Paul’s, he entered Yale, his father’s alma mater, and trained in the Yale Battery of the National Guard. At Yale he studied anthropology, geology, and history with a GPA of around 2.5. In 1919 he developed serious heart problems, resulting from scarlet fever, and was advised to withdraw from the National Guard and take a year off from Yale.

About the Eliot Grant Fitch Papers

The Eliot Grant Fitch Papers contain over 265 manuscript letters, spanning the years 1910-1920. The majority of the correspondence is from Fitch to his “dearest little mother” Ida Eliot Fitch, and covers the years 1910-1913. Also included are 21 letters to Fitch from his girlfriend, Esther, who was attending a finishing school in New York City, one letter from Ida Fitch to Eliot, a letter to Ida Fitch from “Ruth” and 2 miscellaneous letters.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Eliot Grant Fitch Papers, 1910-1920, MC 156, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire Library, Durham, NH, USA

Acquisitions Information

Purchased: Carman Valento, Philadelphia, PA, 1966 (Accession number: 96.019)

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