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Box 3

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Contains 17 Results:

Edward Williams Diary, 1871-1873

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes accounts of visits to penitentiary and meeting American Indian Chiefs incarcerated there, Dec. 1871, and travels in Mid West during summers.

Dates: 1871-1873

Edward Williams to his wife and daughter, Teachers House, Jackson, Mississippi, 1867 12 mo 8.

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents

Describes the schools and attitudes of students and Northerners visiting there. Urges Hannah to join him.

Dates: 1867 12 mo 8.

Edward and Hannah Williams to their daughter and mother., 1868 2 mo-5 month

 File — Box: 3
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Edward describes visits to the Penitentiary in Jackson and to Vicksburg

Dates: 1868 2 mo-5 month

Edward, Sarah and Hannah to family, 1872 3 mo to 10 mo

 File — Box: 3
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Hannah mentions that Yearly Meeting expressed interest in providing more funds for their school.

Dates: 1872 3 mo to 10 mo

Sarah to Aunt Hettie Bruff and family, 1874-10 month 1875

 File — Box: 3
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Last letter mentions that community not as peaceful as in past.

Dates: 1874-10 month 1875

Sarah Williams to family, 1876

 File — Box: 3
Scope and Contents

Describes trouble in the school and for freedman since the Democrats passed new laws limiting free education to the age of 14 and cutting pay for teachers

Dates: 1876