Nellie Ashburn Bond papers, 1893-1967.

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Nellie Ashburn Bond papers, 1893-1967.

The Nellie Ashburn Bond papers date from 1893 to 1967 and contain correspondence, speeches, diary, notebooks, and the typescript of an article for Alumni News. Most of the sixteen letters are concerned with family and personal matters. Eleven of them were written from New York while Bond was at Columbia and include descriptions of New York and Philadelphia. In a letter written from the N.C. State Normal and Industrial College in 1902 she mentions J.Y. Joyner leaving to become Superintendent of Public Instruction. The correspondence includes a letter to Bond from Virginia Brown Douglas, which mentions their European trip accompanied by Miss Petty and Miss Fort of the State Normal and Industrial College. The diary describes this trip to Europe in 1905.

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North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College

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Bond, Nellie Ashburn, 1860-1941

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Bond, Nellie Ashburn.

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Nellie Ashburn Bond was a member of the State Normal and Industrial School (now University of North Carolina at Greensboro) class of 1897. After graduation, she taught school in Laurel Bluff, N.C. and Statesville, N.C. Bond returned to the State Normal and Industrial College in 1900 as an assistant in the English department. In 1902, she attended summer school at Columbia University in New York City. Bond was married to Edward S. Askew of her hometown of Windsor, N.C. in 1909. From t...

North Carolina State Normal and Industrial School

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