This offering is for a LOT of Four (4) 1891 INVITATIONS TO MISS WILCOX OF SMITH COLLEGE for Women, 2 from Amherst and 2 from Smith re:

1) Engraved invitation: "The Gamma Chapter of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity request the pleasure of your presence at the general convention of the Fraternity, Thursday and Friday, May seventh and eighth, Eighteen hundred and ninety-one." it is a bi-fold printed on wove paper and tucked into it is an engraved, tissue-guarded invitation to a "Reception in honor of the Alumni and guests of the Gamma Chapter at the College Gymnasium, Thursday evening, from six until eleven. Dancing after seven." This in turn is tucked into an envelope on which is hand-written "Miss Wilcox". Psi Upsilon was a fraternity at nearby Amherst College for men.

2) Engraved Bi-fold Program: "IVY EXERCISES. Smith College, June 23, 1891. PROGRAMME. - "Welcome" by Mary Elizabeth Wilson, followed by a SONG, followed by "Ivy Oration" presented by Ethel Dench Puffer, followed by "IVY SONG. - Planting the Ivy." - Words printed within. Laid in are two 4" x 5" blue-tinted original Cyanotype photos, one of 8 young women sitting on a split rail fence (graduating class?), and the other of 2 women reclined in a hammock facing a Smith College building. 

3) Undated manuscript invitation to Miss Wilcox "From Miss Crehore & Miss Williams for Wednesday, four to six March fourth - 4 Dewey (?)". It is inserted in an envelope addressed to "Miss Wilcox 15 Hatfield House" and with it is a tintype of 2 young women in formal attire taken at a studio.

4) Manuscript bi-fold invitation on laid paper reads, "The Ladies of the Faculty of Amherst College request the pleasure of your company on June Third from four to six o'clock. College Campus." It is in an envelope addressed to "Miss Wilcox, Northampton" (Smith college location) and has the printed return address: The Amherst Student, Amherst Mass.

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