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	Letter from Leland Sneed to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 04, 1883 Writing under her nickname "S. Eddie," Leland Sneed sends news to her friend Mattie Southgate ("Old Tom') about the parties and dances that she attends near her home in Bellevue, Virginia. She tells Mattie about the boys--Will Page, Jim White, and Steve Carpenter-- who traveled from Red Hill for the dances and reports on Mettie Rickett's courting. Leland reveals that she and her friend Byrdie Townley spied on Mettie and her beaux. In response to the eavesdropping, the courting couple whipped their friends with a cowhide.
	Letter from Leland Sneed to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01 1883 Leland Sneed, whose nickname is "Sammie Eddie," writes her school friend Mattie Southgate ( "Son Tom" ) about her recent birthday party. Leland mentions the gifts from her parents, particularly the bracelets she received from her father. She refers to the March 1st resolution to which she and her Wesleyan Female Institute school friends, Mettie Ricketts, Mattie Southgate, and Mollie Page, subscribed.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to Annie Moore Southgate, November 24, 1881 Mattie Logan Southgate tells her sister Annie Southgate about her Wesleyan Female Institute roommates, Leland Sneed, Mettie Ricketts, and Mollie Page. Mattie refers to Minnie Moore, another school friend from Durham. She mentions the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Annual Conference, which was held in Durham, North Carolina in November 1881, and asks that her family send her a care package for Christmas.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, September 12, 1882 Under her nickname, "Mary Eddie," Mollie Page writes her school friend, Mattie Logan Southgate "Tom" to ask if she will come back to school. Mollie has planned to room with Mattie at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Mollie sends news of Leland Sneed and Mettie Ricketts and some other friends.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 31, 1881 Mollie Page, school friend from Wesleyan Female Institute, writes Mattie about the festivities surrounding Christmas at her home in Batesville, Virginia. She attends a series of parties and writes of her conversation with Ed Martin and her correspondence with Leland Sneed (Lela) and Mettie Ricketts, fellow W. F. I. students.
	Letter from unknown author to Mattie Logan Southgate, September 08, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate ("Tom) received this letter from a schoolmate writing under the alias of "bed bug.". The author mentions hosting Mollie Page and Leland Sneed, two Wesleyan Female Institute friends who reside in Virginia. There is a strong likelihood that Mettie Ricketts, Mattie's friend from W.F.I. authored this letter. The author tells Mattie of a horseback ride with Jim White and the young man's expression of "undying love" for her. She describes her travels with Mollie Page and Leland Sneed to Red Hill and the picnic and dances they attended. She closes with her plans to commence teaching and asks Mattie if she intends to continue her studies at the Wesleyan Female Institute.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01, 1883 Mollie Page reminisces about her school days with Mattie Southgate at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She notes that school is in session and reports that the fever is still raging. Her father, she reports, "thinks the people are crazy to send their daughters back." Mollie refers to the March 1st Resolution and the pledge to correspond with her school friends. She tells Mattie that she has already written their friends "Dean" and "Eddie" and that she expects to receive a letter from Mattie. Mollie tells Mattie about social events in Batesville, complains that she missed Lela's birthday celebration, and notes that she will turn eighteen later in the month.
	Photograph of Leland Sneed Portriat of Lela Sneed, student at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Image made by Edmund Berkeley's studio in Staunton, Virginia.
	Photograph of Leland Sneed Portrait of Leland Sneed, student at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Image made by the Edmund Berkeley studio in Staunton, Virginia.
	Photograph of Leland Sneed Portrait of Leland Sneed standing near floral vase. The image was made by Praysen & Company, Danville, Virginia.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to James Southgate, January 29, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate acknowledges receipt of five dollars from her father, James Southgate. She shares news from Cordelia Hunter Southgate (Aunt Hunter) and tells of writing her sister, Lessie. She has lots of news to report from the Wesleyan Female Institute. The principal, William A. Harris had each student immunized and Mattie jokes that "her scab will vaccinate most all of Durham." She comments on her grades and compares her progress in penmanship to that of her friend Leland Sneed. In closing, she requests more money to pay for additional practice time on the piano. The session with Professor Ide, she claims, is insufficient.
	Resolution, March 01, 1883 Wesleyan Female Institute schoolmates Leland Sneed ("Sammie Eddie"), Mettie Ricketts ("Dean"), Mattie Southgate ("Tom"), and Mollie Page ("Mary Eddie") pledge to never forget their "resolutions the 1st of March and getting married." The resolution appears to have been penned by Mollie Page.

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