Brace and Bunce family papers, ca. 1818-1860.

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Brace and Bunce family papers, ca. 1818-1860.

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This collection contains schoolbooks, friendship albums, and a review of sermons kept by Frances Ann Brace Bunce between 1818 and 1827. Some of the school work dates from Frances' time at the Litchfield Female Academy. In her geography book she included the school's 1822 rules. Account books, a diary, letters, and a friendship album, of James Marvin Bunce, Frances' husband, are included, as are a friendship album of James' sister Emma Bunce, a commonplace book of James and Frances' daughter-in-law Laura Dibble Bunce, and copybooks and diaries of Frances' aunt, Electa Kimberly. After Frances' death, Lydia Huntley Sigourney wrote memorial verses, which are also part of the collection. Sigourney, prior to her marriage, was one of Frances Bunces's teachers. Frances' copy of Lydia Huntley's "Letters to the Young Ladies under her Care" is included, too. Electa Kimberly copied some of Frances' letters and photocopies are in the collection. A seemingly unrelated piece is a printed work titled "The Old Thirteen English Colonies."

0.50 linear foot (1 box).

Connecticut Historical Society

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Sigourney, Lydia Howard, 1791-1865

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Lydia Huntley Sigourney (born September 1, 1791, Norwich, Connecticut–died June 10, 1865, Hartford, Connecticut), poet, also known as the “Sweet Singer of Hartford", was the only daughter of a gardener. She attended private school with the assistance of her father’s employer, and founded a Hartford school for girls in 1814. At this school, without any specialized training, Sigourney taught a deaf student, Alice Cogswell, to read and write in English. Cogswell would later be the first student enr...

Bunce, Frances Ann Brace, 1808-1838.

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Bunce family.

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Litchfield Female Academy (Conn.)

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Bunce, James Marvin, 1806-1859.

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Bunce, Laura Dibble, 1837-1916.

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Brace and Bunce family.

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Bunce, Emma, 1814-1913.

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Kimberly, Electa, 1777-1860.

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