Isabel Butler

American, active 1899 - 1906

Biographyhttp://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99035366
Isabel Butler. Miss Butler lived her whole life in Jamaica Plain, studied at Radcliffe College, and kept close ties to Harvard, bequeathing what had been the family home to Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum (it still stands, but no longer belongs to the University). Although she taught English literature for a year at Wellesley College, her physical limitations restricted her; she died in the same house where she had been born. Bits and pieces on her life may be gleaned from book reviews, short obituaries, and published acknowledgments of her bequests in Harvard and Radcliffe publications, but the fullest information is forthcoming in the “Cabot Hall Book of Gifts,” a scrapbook assembled in 1937 with photographs and typed biographies to commemorate alumnae and staff after whom rooms were named when the then-new dormitory of Cabot Hall was furnished. The album is Radcliffe College Archives SC 63–1v.
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