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This collection consists of correspondence related to Sibyl H. Spaulding of Foxvale, Massachusetts. The collection includes many letters from F. W. Bigg of Brandon, Vermont, who was Spaulding's fiancé until 1898.

This collection is made up of correspondence related to Sibyl H. Spaulding of Foxvale, Massachusetts. Early items include a letter from Spaulding's grandmother and letters that Spaulding wrote to her mother, Clara Harrison Spaulding, about her social life in Auburndale, Massachusetts, and Brandon, Vermont, in the mid-1890s.

Spaulding later joined her mother in Foxvale, Massachusetts, where she received newsy letters from cousins and friends in Vermont and Massachusetts. F. W. Bigg ("Fud"), her fiancé and most frequent correspondent, wrote regularly from Brandon, Vermont, in 1897 and 1898. He shared social news, wrote of his love for her, and otherwise discussed his everyday life. In his final letter, written after the couple broke off their engagement, he requested that Spaulding destroy his previous correspondence with her. After 1898 Spaulding received letters from family members and friends in a New England and New York; some discussed religion and a mission based in Foxvale. In 1899, Clara Harrison Spaulding, Sibyl Spaulding's mother, received a group of letters from Thomas E. Grover, an attorney, about a legal dispute and the related financial settlement. A few letters enclose printed programs.