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Matthews' journals, letters, photographs, and artifacts which document first-hand observations of daily life in the
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384:"A Mount Holyoke Woman in Macedonia: Mary Matthews and the American School for Girls, 1888 to 1920", online exhibition curated by Archives and Special Collections Assistants Liz Knoll, class of 2016 and Katia Kiefaber, class of 2017. Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA.
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September 1880. While there, she joined other young women interested in missionary work as a member of the Mount Holyoke Missionary Association. After leaving the school in June 1883 before graduating because of ill health, she taught at
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