The Katherine Tenney correspondence collection consists of 131 letters sent from St. Mary’s to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Tenney, between the years 1934 and 1937. The content of these letters includes descriptions of Katherine’s daily social and academic life at the Seminary; requests for permission to travel outside of St. Mary’s; and accounts of frequent trips to Baltimore and Washington, D.C. The collection also includes several inserts, such as a copy of an arsenic receipt, a number of letters written by Katherine’s friends and addressed to Katherine’s mother, and a letter from M. Adele France. The letters make frequent mention of archery champion and sister Jean Tenney, as well as Kay Aldridge, who would later gain fame as a model and actress.