Other Letters

Letters speak of local events and mutual friends and health. Letter writers include: John Griffin, Mary Mekeel [Griffin?], Carrie Haviland and Hannah Mekeel, Hannah Quinby Haviland, Charles W. Hoag, Catharine Irish, W.H. Ketcham, E.B. Underhill, Mary Underhill, Sarah Vanderbilt, Edward Wanzer Hoag, Charles to Arthur Mekeel. Washington, 1846 1/13. [reports on some students and events at Nine Partners School in Poughkeepsie, NY] Irish, Catharine to Mary Mekeel. N.p., n.d. Writes as a friend at Nine Partners Boarding School and refers to Mahlon Day] Ketcham, W.H. Washington to Arthur Mekeel. 1845 10/9. [responds to Mekeel’s idea of teaching and names some students at the school] Underhill, Mary. 1832 3/2. [sister Hannah contemplating second marriage; Uncle Caleb has given up his school at Skaneateles and will start a school for girls in Hector; a considerable amount of influenza reported] Vanderbilt, Sarah to Isaac and Phebe Mekeel. New York, 1845 1/9. [death of some family members and the sinking of the steamship Lexington on Long Island Sound] [?] to cousin. Limoges, 1846? 4/4. [tells of his passage on ship to Limoges which began with the firing of a cannon]