Title:
Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 8, 1889: Electronic Edition.
Author:
Page, Mollie
Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate
Funder:
Funding by the Institute of Museum of Library Services (IMLS) and the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA), with support provided through North Carolina ECHO.
Transcription Information:
Text transcribed by: Trudi Abel
Images scanned by: Digital Production Center
Text encoded by: Katherine M. Wisser
Transcription Edition:
Edition: First edition,
Date: 2006
Publication Information:
Publisher: Duke University Libraries
Date: 2006
Availability: ©This work is the property of the Duke University Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text.
Source Information:
Title: Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 8, 1889
Author: Mollie Page
Date: 18891108
Note: Upon reading a death notice for Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889) in the Durham Daily Globe, Mollie Page writes her friend Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to express her condolences. Mollie Page and Mattie Southgate Jones roomed together at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.
P: James Southgate papers, 1794-1944 and undated, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Class: Durham Daily Globe
Class: Dead
Class: Durham (N.C.) -- History
Class: Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Class: Condolence notes -- Southern states -- 19th century
Class: Women in communication -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Class: Friendship in adolescence -- Southern states -- 19th century
Class: Death -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
Class: Page, Mollie
Class: Page, Mollie
Class: Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate, b. 1865
Class: Durham (N.C.)
Class: Greensboro (N.C.)

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Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Durham Daily Globe
Dead
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Jones, Thomas Decatur, 1852-1889
Condolence notes -- Southern states -- 19th century
Women in communication -- Southern states -- History -- 19th century
Friendship in adolescence -- Southern states -- 19th century
Death -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
Page, Mollie
Page, Mollie
Jones, Mattie Logan Southgate, b. 1865
Durham (N.C.)
Greensboro (N.C.)

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