Letters to Annie Pease and Nellie Pease, 1880

Containers:

Box 1, Folder 9

Scope and content:

36 letters from various friends and family in Maywood, IL; Parsonsfield and Boston, Mass.; Bangor, Portland, Farmington, and Cornish, Maine to Annie and Nellie in Cornish and Bangor, Maine 10 March-25 December 1880 Annie's cousin Stella Small writes to her to initiate a correspondence and asks a lot of questions about the family and Annie's hobbies. Nellie receives two letters from her friends discussing school and the horridness of Latin. Nellie and John both write to Annie to inform her that Sarah has been very ill and that their mother has also been feeling poorly. The next letters reveal that Annie's mother has died and that Sarah is still very weak. Several friends and relatives write to Annie with words of sympathy and support; they quote the scripture frequently. As the year continues, letters reveal that Sarah is not improving and that Annie has not returned to her teaching post; Miss Prescott assures Annie that she will do her best to take over her school post. By Christmas, new sympathy letters reveal that Annie's sister Sarah has died as well after a brief period of recovery; the letters again offer consolation and inquire as to whether Annie will return to Bangor to teach.

Physical description:

36 items.

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