Student at Ispwich Female Seminary - Advice on Academics and School Life, 1866

19th c. Women Education, Ispwich Female Seminary

ALS : Autograph Letter Signed

[19th c. Women’s Education] Autograph Letter Signed by a mother to a her daughter at Ipswich Female Seminary, MA.1866: 4 pages folded from a single sheet. 8 x 5 in. Original mailing envelope with stamp and address. She writes on the girl’s academic studies as well as the regulations with living in student life. “: “I am glad to hear from you so often, & that you are getting along so well…I am satisfied that you try to have good lessons…I think it would be a good plan for you to go with a Latin class - if you will not have to work too hard.” She also writes: “I do not expect you can always be perfect. I know that you will not break any of the rules of the school knowingly…I don’t know as I understand what you wrote about Mrs Coats not allowing you to buy things, to eat if it was that you should not go to the stores & buy treat, I think she is perfectly right, but I suppose she would have no objection to your having something from home.” Ipswich Female Seminary was founded in Massachusetts in 1828, and the school's focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a "rigorous curriculum," including study of English, arithmetic, geography, chemistry, human physiology, history, the natural sciences, religion, vocal music, and calisthenics, and placed an emphasis on "standards of personal conduct and discipline." As part of their preparation, students practiced teaching with guidance from school instructors. Ink is slightly faded. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history.

Item #17076

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