Doris Holmes Blake - Correspondence with Arthur Lake Holmes and Lucy Wentworth Holmes, February 1920 - April 1921

What were the kinds of things parents and their grown children discussed a hundred years ago? The Doris Holmes Blake Personal Papers collection at the Smithsonian Institution Archives provides one example. The correspondence of the entomologist and prolific letter-writer includes several years of correspondence with her parents Arthur Lake Holmes and Lucy Wentworth Holmes. Join us in transcribing a year's worth of letters from Doris's late twenties!