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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 12 records found where LC Subject Heading is Women -- North Carolina -- Social conditions -- 19th century
	Letter from Delia H. Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 14, 1881 Delia H. Southgate shares news from Durham with her daughter Mattie Southgate who attends the Wesleyan Female Institute. Charlie Soong and Mr. Vaughn have been courting Mattie's sister, Annie. Delia describes her husband James Southgate's health problems, her daughter Lessie's adventures in Texas and her son Jimmie's travel to the seashore. She also inquires whether Mattie received gifts of clothing and money that she sent and promises to ship another box for Christmas.
	Letter from Delia H. Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 15, 1882 Delia H. Southgate shares news with her daughter Mattie about the poor health of Sarah Raboteau ( Aunt Sarah), Annie Southgate as well as herself. She reports that their family's church will install a bell, notes that the revivals have closed, and gives Mattie news of Lula Freeland's school. Delia inquires about the care package that she sent Mattie and asks for details about the soiree held by the Wesleyan Female Institute.
	Letter from F. D. Cunningham, M.D. to James Southgate, March 10, 1885 Dr. Frank. D. Cunningham, director of the Retreat of the Sick, Richmond, Virginia. writes James Southgate with a description of his daughter's condition. The physician refers to Annie Southgate's "nervous attacks" and terms her condition Hyster Epilepsy.
	Copy of Prescriptions used by Miss Annie Southgate at the Retreat of the Sick, Richmond, Virginia, April 13, 1885 Medications prescribed by Frank D. Cunningham for his patient Annie Southgate while she visited the Retreat of the Sick in Richmond, Virginia. Dr. Cunningham advised Annie to use two of the remedies at the "approach of menstruation."
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 20, 1878 James Haywood Southgate compliments his sister, Mattie Southgate, on her improvement in penmanship. He tells her of his visit with Dr. Le Doux and his wife and remarks that he feels "like getting a wife myself." James confides that he will not marry until he has $10,000 in the bank. This letter is written on stationery from the Citizen's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey.
	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.
	Mattie's Report Card from Wesleyan Female Institute, December 1881 This December 1881 report card from the Wesleyan Female Institute at Staunton, Virginia assesses Mattie Southgate's progress in writing, natural philosophy, rhetoric, elocution, French, German, vocal music, instrumental music, calisthenics, and conduct. Directed by principal William A. Harris, the Wesleyan Female Institute offered a range of courses including those on Butler's Analogy, evidence of Christianity, Geometry -- plane and analytical, philosophy, mental and moral, and book keeping.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to James Buchanan Duke, May 05, 1883 Mattie Southgate replies with an affirmative response to James Buchanan Duke's request to call on her.
	Broadside from James Southgate, July 01, 1881 In an effort to help his daughter obtain a teaching position, James Southgate distributes a broadside describing Lessie Muse Southgate's qualifications in vocal and instrumental music. The broadside gives an overview of Lessie's education at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia and the Grand Conservatory of Music in New York. Mr. Southgate gives Professor Ernst Eberhard of the Grand Conservatory and E. Louis Ide of the Wesleyan Female Institute as references. The broadside notes that Lessie is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but is willing to work as music instructor for any denomination.
	Letter from James Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 03, 1881 James Southgate sends his daughter, Mattie Logan Southgate spending money so that she can pay her bills and purchase winter flannel. He plans to have C. B. Green and G. E. Webb forward Durham's main newspapers--the Daily Tobacco Plant and Durham Recorder-- so that she might read about the proceedings of the North Carolina Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's Annual Conference . The Southgate family hosts a number of Conference attendees who travel to Durham for the event. This letter is written on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance an Commission Agent.
	Letter from Bettie Ann Cunningham to Thomas Decatur Jones , September 08, 1885 Writing from Greensboro, North Carolina, Bettie Ann Cunningham asks her brother Thomas Decatur Jones about his expectant wife Mattie Logan. "I hope she is not uneasy and bears her trouble bravely. I believe all the ladies this year have gone a month over their time and all of them have had girls so be prepared for such a calamity as you men regard it." She also describes her brother John K. Jones' accident and how poor communication between his siblings and their mother Nancy Harriet Keen Jones delayed his medical care. In closing, Bettie advises Thomas to attend Mrs. Chapin's temperance speech when the lecturer travels to Durham.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to Thomas Decatur Jones, August 10, 1889 Mattie Southgate Jones writes her husband Thomas Decatur Jones conveying her happiness that he arrived at his destination safely. She reports that their son Decatur slept fitfully and continues to talk "insesently" about his absent father. She details her domestic chores and forwards news from A.S. DeVlarming, her husband's bookkeeper, about the Jones tobacco enterprise. She notes that the local newspaper, the Sun, published a lengthy personal about Thomas. She closes with a request that Thomas send news through his correspondence.

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