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A letter by a Southern Catholic widow soliciting support for her school for young women, written soon after the Civil War and shortly before she joined a convent. Addressed to her student “Mary,” this letter written by schoolmistress Adeline Brisbane begs that “your Mother, & Self, will use your influence.....
An early manuscript register of students written by a girl attending what would become the longest operating boarding school in the United States, including two sisters apparently absent from the school’s official history. Anna Thomas, who was among the first 250 girls to enroll at Westtown School, “which commenced 5th.....
A letter from a Vermont-born schoolteacher in present-day West Virginia describing the deplorable state of education in the region, where illiteracy was pervasive, despite the wealth of the state. Tyrrell, a former “agent and overseer of the stage line and plantation” in Cabell County had by the first of August.....