Quakers -- Education -- 19th century
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Griscom family correspondence
Collection — Othertype SC-050
Identifier: SFHL-SC-050
Abstract
This collection primarily includes correspondence between William Wade Griscom and his family while he was at Benjamin Hallowell's boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia. Correspondents include his father, William, his stepmother, Sarah Whitelock, and his sister, Hannah S. Included are grade reports from Friends Central School and from Alexandria Boarding School, descriptions by William Wade Griscom of his trips to Washington, D.C., and an account of a lecture by Horace Mann. Also included...
Dates:
1844-1896
Winston-Clark Family papers
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1165
Overview
Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.
Dates:
1814-1900
