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Scope and Contents From the Series: Almost all the correspondence is from Sister Marguerite Frost to Irene Zieget. Although she includes a few lines of small talk in her letters, Sister Marguerite focuses on writing about objects or the Shaker associated with an object--her own version of provenance research. Since Shakers were instructed to retain anonymity, the maker of an object often remained unknown. However, the identity of the Shaker(s) who had the object in their possession was often given. Sister Marguerite's letters...