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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 12 records found where LC Subject Heading is Education -- Virginia -- Social aspects -- History -- 19th century
	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 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 James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, November 20, 1881 James Haywood Southgate writes his sister Mattie Logan Southgate with news from home and advice for her studies at Wesleyan Female Institute James commends Mattie on the progress she made in her report card grades and counsels his sister on how to build a "superior intellectual edifice." He advises that she use her letter writing to "improve her mode of expression" and suggests that she abandon her habitual practice of underlining. James thanks for Mattie for sending a photograph. He details the foods that the Southgate family has brought to their Durham home in order to host visitors for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's North Carolina Annual Conference. He describes his plans to travel to Atlanta for the Exhibition and notes that he may visit his Uncle Thomas Wynne and his family in Columbus, Georgia. He closes by inquiring after a parcel he sent Mattie. James writes his letter on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance and Commission Agent.
	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 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.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate to Delia H. Southgate, February 27, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate explains her concern for her father's health and the rationale behind her telegraphing home for news of his condition. The stationery is embellished with hand-drawn birds modeled on those drawn by her friend Minnie. Mattie asks her mother to send a box of water colors from Dike's book shop in Durham, so she can study art on her own. She describes the dress she will wear at the upcoming soiree at Wesleyan Female Institute and closes with a promise to write her sister Lessie.
	Letter from Lessie Muse Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 02, 1882 Lessie Muse Southgate sends her sister Mattie Logan Southgate $10 for a train trip to Washington, D.C. from Staunton, Virginia. She also promises to send a dress in time for the trip. Lessie Southgate notes that Ida Seate, an alumnae of Wesleyan Female Institute (class of 1879), lives in Goliad, Texas at the same boarding house where Lessie resides.
	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 Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 06, 1882 James Haywood Southgate sends his sister Mattie Logan Southgate a humorous letter and photograph. James provides an immodest analysis of his physical features by comparing them with those of nineteenth-century luminaries. "You will doubtless note the appearance of that Classic brow, that Websterian mouth, that Clay cut ear, that Calhoun nasal organ . . . ." He commends Mattie on her academic progress at the Wesleyan Female Institute, particularly her improvement in painting, and offers that he might be able to visit her in Staunton, Virginia.
	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 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 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.

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