Correspondence, 1849-1893.

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Correspondence, 1849-1893.

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Chiefly letters to her cousin, Eunice Cowles, concerning her experiences as a teacher in a Hartford public school and the Hartford Female Seminary and her subsequent activities while living with the family of politician, James G. Blaine, in Washington, D.C. Includes comments on her reading, descriptions of Hartford and Washington, D.C., and discussions about political events, especially those involving Blaine.

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Mount Holyoke College, Williston & Miles-Smith Library

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Blaine, James Gillespie, 1830-1893

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James Gillespie Blaine (January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881. Blaine twice served as Secretary of State (1881, 1889–1892), one of only two persons to hold the position under three separate presidents (the other being Daniel Webster), and...

Hamilton, Gail, 1833-1896

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Author; b. Mary Abigail Dodge. From the description of Correspondence, 1849-1893. (Lewis & Clark Library). WorldCat record id: 31327028 Pen name of American author Mary Abigail Dodge. From the description of Papers of Gail Hamilton [manuscript] 1862-1895. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647812158 Gail Hamilton was born Mary Abigail Dodge on March 31, 1833, in Hamilton, Massachusetts to Hannah Stanwood and James Brown Dodge. She graduate...

Hartford Female Seminary (Hartford, Conn.)

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Hartford Female Seminary was founded in 1828 in Hartford, Conn. From the description of Catalogue, 1853. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007154 ...

Cowles, Eunice C. (Eunice Caldwell), 1811-1903

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Eunice Caldwell was born on February 4, 1811, in Ipswich, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Captain John Caldwell and Eunice Stanwood Caldwell. Her father, a sailor, drowned in the Kennebec River in 1835. She attended Ipswich Female Seminary from 1828 to 1829, where she met and began a lasting friendship with Mary Lyon, a teacher and an assistant to Zilpah P. Grant, the school's principal, from 1828 to 1839. She graduated from Ipswich in 1829 and was a teacher there from 1830-1835. She serv...