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Letter to Miss Lottie, Feb. 20, 1853 | ||
| This collection of letters consists of correspondence among friends and families near Plainfield, New Jersey. This letter is one of a small group of letters received by a young girl from her friends. They display a candid view of a child's view of her schooling as well as her growing competencies. The letters are transcribed literally to duplicate punctuation and spelling, except when to do so would obscure the meaning. | ||
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[Hubbard/Robertson, Letter to Miss Lottie, Feb. 20, 1853, page 1] Feb 20, 1853 Dear Friend Lottie, I now take my pen in hand to let you know that we are all well as usual. I have been going to school and have not had any time to write to you before. Lydia is going to the Academy now she boards to Melissa Hamiltons she likes her school very well. [continues about family friends] Jimy is a good boy and he goes to school every day he has gone through the Pictorial Primer this winter and he reads in Sanders first Reader now. I like my Teacher very well this winter. I study [end of page 1] |
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[Hubbard/Robertson, Letter to Miss Lottie, Feb. 20, 1853, page 2] Mitchell's Geography and have got most through it I shall finish it by the time school is out. We have not had any Compositions or spoke any pieces or had any spelling schools yet. . . [letter continues about family and friends] |
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[Hubbard/Robertson, Letter to Miss Lottie, Feb. 20, 1853, page 3] Charlotte, if you think that this little girls letter is worth answering I wish that you would write to me for it makes me feel as though I was almost a woman to have a letter come into the Post Office for me. [more about the family] [signed] Melissa Rich | |
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From the handwriting and writing style, can you estimate the age or maturity of writer? Do you think anyone encouraged Melissa Rich to write to friends? |
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