The greatest satisfaction is to see it go on developing, growing in ways beyond my ken, into a staunch oak tree."

In this capacity, she traveled extensively, in the United States and abroad, assembling manuscripts that document the history of women.

Her father was railway executive Lucius Seymour Storrs and her mother was Mary Cooper Storrs, daughter of Job Adams Cooper, sixth Governor of the State of Colorado.

[2] In the early 1990s Grierson sold the home she had shared with Leland and moved to an apartment on Crescent Street.

[3] The Grierson Scholars program was launched in the late 1990s, partially funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.