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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.
Photograph of Alma Ivey
Portrait of Alma Ivey from New Orleans, Louisiana. She attended the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia where she was fatally stricken with typhoid fever in 1882. The photo was taken at Edmund Berkeley's studio in Staunton, Virginia.

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