Memoir of Mary Alansa Rounds Sterrett [manuscript], 1911-1915.

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Memoir of Mary Alansa Rounds Sterrett [manuscript], 1911-1915.

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Sterret's memoir is based on her diaries. Topics include her family, particularly her father, Methodist minister, editor and professor Nelson Rounds; childhood and school days in various New York and Pennsylania towns; teaching music at Mansfield Female College in Ohio; teaching at Loch Willow Academy, Churchville, Va., run by her aunt Sarah Hotchkiss, wife of Jedediah Hotchkiss; teaching at Mary Julia Baldwin's Augusta Female Seminary, Staunton; life in Civil War Staunton; passing through the lines and reunion with family; life in Berkshire, N.Y.; married life at "Irvinton," Augusta County, Va.; her children including Charlottesville, Va., resident May Sterrett Irvine; and her lifelong love of music. Of interest are her accounts of a performance by Tom Thumb; a visit to the Auburn State prison; Wyoming Seminary at Kingston, Pa.; taking the water cure at Binghamton, N.Y.; stereotyped views of slaves and slavery; a tournament; engagement to Col. Frank Sterett; Sterrett's depression from morphine taken for rheumatic pain; many games of charades; war time inflation; different sounds made by Union and Confederate cavalry; wedding day, honeymoon and return to Virginia; and meditations on answered prayer in her life. Beginning January 24, 1861, she copies from her diaries which relate war news and local events which included sewing and fund-raising for the troops.

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