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	Lavenia Blackwell report card Report card for Lavenia Blackwell from the Oxford Female Seminary in Oxford, North Carolina. While attending this boarding school in 1881, Lavenia studied four subjects: Preparatory (spelling, penmanship, written and mental arithmetic), Languages (Latin and French), Music (instrumental and vocal), and Fine Arts (crayon drawing).
	Mattie Southgate report card, February 1882 1882 report card for Mattie Southgate from the Wesleyan Female Institute at Staunton, Viriginia. Mattie studied writing, natural philosophy, rhetoric, elocution, French, German, vocal music, instrumental music, calisthenics, and conduct.
	Letter from Delia H. Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 12, 1881 Delia H. Southgate shares news from home with her daughter Mattie Logan Southgate. Mattie's friend Willy Wilkinson battles a fever, her sister Annie has rebounded from illness, her brother Jimmie has traveled to Beaufort for fishing while Aunt Sarah plans a trip to Henderson. She inquires about the items Mattie will need for winter at the Wesleyan Female Institute and promises to send a box or care package for Christmas. Delia asks Mattie for information about her studies in vocal and instrumental music with Miss Lizzie Daniels and Professor E. Louis Ide.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, January 04, 1880 Mattie Southgate writes her mother Delia Haywood Wynne Southgate with news from her boarding school, Wesleyan Female Institute. Mattie celebrated Christmas with her sisters Annie Moore Southgate and Lessie Muse Southgate during the two-day school holiday provided by principal William A. Harris. The girls send their mother bills for instruction with their music teachers Lizzie Daniels, Anna Boyd and Professor Ide. In addition, they report that they must purchase more sheet music for their lessons, because their music is "out of style." Mattie provides news of an upcoming school performance and a defense of her progress in Miss Williams' history class. She closes with a request that her mother send a box with "cocoanut cake," preserves, mince pies, nuts, and ground peas.
	Letter from N. O. Wilkinson to Mattie Logan Southgate, January 27, 1880 N. O. Wilkinson sends this letter to her young neighbor Mattie Logan Southgate, a student at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs. Wilkinson sends news about her children, Willie, Minnie, and Tommie. Mattie's sister, Annie Southgate spent the day with Mrs. Wilkinson's daughter, Willie. N. O. Wilkinson reports the activities of Durham's young people over Christmas and notes the construction activity in town. She mentions her son's recent hunting trip and reminisces about her school days at Greensboro College. Mrs. Wilkinson closes with a request that Mattie's sister Lessie send her news from school.
	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.
	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 Celestia Muse Southgate, March 26, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate writes her sister Lessie (Celestia Muse) Southgate with news of festive and somber events at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She provides a vivid description of Alma Ivey's death from "tiphoid and brain fever," the visit of Alma's mother to school, and the funeral procession from school to the railroad depot. Mattie tells Lessie about her new interest in drawing and her lessons with Reverend Harris' daughter, Mattie. She discusses her coursework with Lizzie Daniels in vocal music and her plans to study art and musical elocution in the next year. Mattie notes that she visited Edmund Berkeley's studio and she promises to send her sister a photograph.
	Letter from William A. Harris to James Southgate, August 19, 1882 Reverend. William A. Harris invites James Southgate to re-enroll his daughter at the Wesleyan Female Institute for the fall 1882 session. The engraved letterhead depicts the school and grounds.
	Letter from James Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, October 28, 1881 James Southgate details his visit to the Yorktown Centennial and his shopping expedition in Richmond to his daughter, Mattie Southgate, who attends boarding school in Staunton, Virginia. In relating news from Durham, James describes his daughter Annie Southgate's recovery from typhoid fever, provides details of Mollie Day's failed courtship, preparations for the Methodist Church Conference and news about Durham neighbors and family. James Southgate also inquires of Mattie's schooling, her teacher, Lizzie Daniels, and advises her to strive for excellence, especially in her penmanship.

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