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Sallie E. Bolton letters and autograph book
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 56
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and autograph book. ‡b The correspondence consists of letters from Sallie E. Bolton to her mother written between 1855 and 1858 while she attended and taught at Lancaster County Normal School (presently Millersville University of Pennsylvania). It includes comments on her concerns for her family, her feelings about a number of everyday life events, including marriage, illness, and her professional life as a young female faculty member at a new normal school in rural...
Dates:
1855-1863
Some account of the forepart of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge of Chester County
Collection — Box: Box 1
Identifier: 003-MS 31
Scope and Contents
Contains the memoirs of Elizabeth Ashbridge from the days of her youth in Ireland to her life as an indentured servant and Quaker in the United States. The story begins with her arrival in New York in 1732 and includes her servitude in Pennsylvania, her marriage to a school master, their lives in Rhode Island, and her return to Pennsylvania to visit Quaker relations. She remarried in 1746 following the death of her abusive husband and returned to Ireland in 1753. She died there in 1755. ...
Dates:
1775
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