Manuscript Collection Finding Aids
Publication Date
10-16-2019
Abstract
Finding aid and scans (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3486. Letters, 3 November 1866 and 23 May 1867, of Dallie Duncan to her mother in Pontotoc, Mississippi. Returning for another year of school at Science Hill Academy, Shelbyville, Kentucky, she writes of her roommates and clothing purchases, asks about various family members, and warns that her tuition should be paid before she leaves school, noting the headmistress’s criticism that “Mississippians never paid their debts when they could help it.” She also expresses concern for her recently widowed mother’s emotional and physical health. Dallie’s mother (addressed as “Mrs. C. G. Mitchell”) married her late sister’s husband, Dr. Charles Grider Mitchell, a Warren County, Kentucky native who Dallie refers to as “Uncle Charles.”
Disciplines
Education | United States History | Women's History
Recommended Citation
Folklife Archives, Manuscripts &, "Duncan, Sarah Amanda "Dallie," 1848-1940 (SC 3486)" (2019). Manuscript Collection Finding Aids. Paper 4763.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/dlsc_mss_fin_aid/4763
Comments
This collection is archived in the Manuscripts & Folklife Archives at Western Kentucky University; 270-745-5083, mssfa@wku.edu