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	Letter from Leland Sneed to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01 1883 Leland Sneed, whose nickname is "Sammie Eddie," writes her school friend Mattie Southgate ( "Son Tom" ) about her recent birthday party. Leland mentions the gifts from her parents, particularly the bracelets she received from her father. She refers to the March 1st resolution to which she and her Wesleyan Female Institute school friends, Mettie Ricketts, Mattie Southgate, and Mollie Page, subscribed.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01, 1883 Mollie Page reminisces about her school days with Mattie Southgate at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She notes that school is in session and reports that the fever is still raging. Her father, she reports, "thinks the people are crazy to send their daughters back." Mollie refers to the March 1st Resolution and the pledge to correspond with her school friends. She tells Mattie that she has already written their friends "Dean" and "Eddie" and that she expects to receive a letter from Mattie. Mollie tells Mattie about social events in Batesville, complains that she missed Lela's birthday celebration, and notes that she will turn eighteen later in the month.

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