Box 1

Scope and Contents Includes letters from various family members, acquaintances and former schoolmates concerning local and national politics, personal affairs and educational matters. Topics include New Years letters, Free Soil Debate, New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, the Fugitive Slave Law and Compromise of 1850, the burning of a local shingle mill, the attendance and curriculum of various schools in New Hampshire, the politics of New York Weekly Tribune editor Horace Greeley, and gold in...

Scope and Contents Includes letters addressed to John at Walnut Grove and Lee, New Hampshire, as well as at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, from Sarah and Perley Rowell, cousins Myra and Louisa, former teacher Moses A. Cartland, and other former schoolmates.  Subjects addressed in the letters include the New Hampshire Railroad, events in Boston, district schools in Cape Cod, the shoemaking profession, women’s thoughts on education, national and local politics, the severe illness of Sarah Rowell, the...

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Includes letters lacking a year, although many include the month.  Most of the letters are from Moses A. Cartland, with some from former schoolmates.  Topics discussed in the letters include Whig politics, local news and events, Moses Cartland’s new school, and pieces Moses wrote for the newspaper the “Independent.”

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Includes small copybook (8 pages) containing quotes and poems on various topics.  Ladies ticket for “M.A. Mitchell’s Dancing School Assembly, at the Opera House, Pittsfield, N.H., Thursday, November 8, 1894” laid in.

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Includes a note written by the author, instructing John as to editing the essay for publication, and signed by the essay’s author, J.H. Ladd.

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certifying John Rowell’s ability to teach in that state.

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Includes letters from John F. Rowell, Moses A. Cartland, Phebe, Samuel, and two letters unsigned.  Topics discussed include: Haverford College, Quaker meeting, California migration, local and national politics, lyceums in town, a fugitive slave from Boston staying with Moses in Lee, and a personal note from “Samuel,” offering affection and apologies.

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Includes composition notebook including compositions and penmanship copy book, and individual compositions from Home Boarding School, and possibly others.

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for former students of Moses A. Cartland.

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Subject is of a religious nature.

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Includes handwritten note on back.

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Includes handwritten letter addressed to “Misses Clarke.”

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