MC 156
2 boxes
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 Collection
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.
Folder Listing
| f.1 | From Eliot Grant Fitch to Ida Eliot Fitch, July 10, 1910-November 12, 1910. |
| f.2 | November 14-28, 1910. |
| f.3 | December 1-20, 1910. |
| f.4 | January 14-31, 1911. |
| f.5 | February 4-21, 1911. |
| f.6 | February 22-March 13, 1911. |
| f.7 | March 15-June 19, 1911. |
| f.8 | September 21-October 10, 1911. |
| f.9 | October 13-30, 1911. |
| f.10 | November 1-24, 1911. |
| f.11 | November 27-December 18, 1911. |
| f.12 | January 11-23, 1912. |
| f.13 | January 25-February 16, 1912. |
| f.14 | February 17-February 29, 1912. |
| f.15 | March 1-14, 1912. |
| f.1 | March 15-April 1, 1912. |
| f.2 | April 2-May 27, 1912. |
| f.3 | May 28-October 31, 1912. |
| f.4 | November 6-December 17, 1912. |
| f.5 | January 9-February 7, 1913. |
| f.6 | February 24-April 19, 1913. |
| f.7 | April 10-December 2, 1916. |
| f.8 | December 3, 1916-June 24, 1920. |
| f.9 | Postcards from Eliot Grant Fitch to Ida Eliot Fitch, January 16, 1911-March 23, 1912. |
| f.10 | As above, undated. |
| f.11 | As above, undated. |
| f.12 | From Esther to Eliot Grant Fitch, March 2, 1916-May 19, 1916. |
| f.13 | As above, November 30, 1916-May 5, 1917. |
| f.14 | From Ida Eliot Fitch to Eliot Grant Fitch, undated. |
| f.15 | From Ruth to Ida Eliot Fitch, December 18, 1911. |
| f.16 | Miscellaneous. |