Guide to the Pauline Dikeman Root Papers, 1901-1943, undated
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Pauline Dikeman Root Papers, George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives, Bowdoin College Library, Brunswick, Maine.
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Pauline Dikeman was born in 1901 to James Morrison Dikeman and Irma Worth Dikeman. She had two younger brothers, Worth Havens Dikeman and James M. Dikeman, Jr. As a mining engineer, Pauline's father traveled extensively, working in the western United States, Mexico and Rhodesia. In her early teens, Pauline spent a year in New York City with her aunt and uncle, Horace and Pauline Hamlin, returning to her home in California for high school and college. In 1932 Pauline married William Campbell Root, who taught chemistry at Bowdoin from 1932 until his death in 1969.
Letters to Pauline Root from her father, mother, and brothers, 1903-1938, though letters from friends and miscellaneous letters are included. Pauline's father wrote to her while he was away at mining sites and her family wrote to her when she was in New York City with her aunt and uncle. Many of the letters from her mother are to Pauline as a young woman and in the early years of her marriage. There are also three diaries and a poetry notebook kept by Pauline while she was in high school. The diaries tell about family, friends, school, and social activities.
Correspondence: Dikeman Family, 1901-1913
Correspondence: James Morrison Dikeman to daughter Pauline Dikeman (Rhodesia), 1903-1905
Correspondence: Dikeman Family, 1915-1916
Correspondence: Miscellaneous, 1917-1923
Correspondence: Stanley Wheelock to Pauline Dikeman, 1921-1922
Correspondence: Stanley Wheelock to Pauline Dikeman, 1922-1923
Correspondence: James Morrison Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman (Alaska, Nevada, California), 1922-1925
Correspondence: Irma Worth Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman, 1924-1928
Correspondence: Miscellaneous Letters to Pauline Dikeman, 1924-1938
Correspondence: Worth Havens Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman, 1924-1939
Correspondence: James Morrison Dikeman, Jr. to Pauline Dikeman, 1926-1938
Correspondence: Edwin & Alice Rush to Pauline Dikeman, 1927-1938
Correspondence: Irma Worth Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman Root, 1932-1934
Correspondence: James Morrison Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman Root (Dikeman Ranch & Berkeley), 1934-1938
Correspondence: Irma Worth Dikeman to Pauline Dikeman Root, 1937-1938
Correspondence: Death of James Morrison Dikeman, 1938
Correspondence: William Campbell Root, 1941-1943
Correspondence: Dikeman Family, undated
Diary: Elizabeth Dikeman (Manual Arts High, L.A.), 1917-1918
Diary: Pauline Elizabeth Dikeman (Manual Arts High, L.A.), 1919
Diary: Pauline Dikeman Root (Berkeley High), 1920
Poetry Notebook: Pauline Elizabeth Dikeman, 1921