Box 1
Contains 26 Results:
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1841 June-August
Written from Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, where the author was a student, to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1841 September-December
Written from Troy Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1842 March-November
Written from Troy Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont and to the author's brother in Brandon, Virginia. In the 5 October letter the author remarks on the death of her aunt, Eunice Norton.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1843 November-December
Written from Troy Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont. In the 23 December letter, the author relates her plan to accept a teaching position in North Carolina.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1844 February-November
Written from the author's new school at Aventon, Nash County, North Carolina, to family members in Whiting, Vermont. In the 8 February letter, the author chronicles her journey from Troy through New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Norfolk, and Portsmouth. After the death of an intimate friend at school, the author reflects on the South's unfamiliar mortuary customs.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1845 January-June
Written from the author's school at Aventon to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1846 January-August
Written from the author's new residence with the Harrisons, a Baptist family in Pleasant Hill, North Carolina, to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1846 September
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to the author's younger sister Louise at her new school in Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1846 September-1847 February
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1847 May-August
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1847 October
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to Daniel Casey in Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina. Daniel moved to North Carolina to teach, but at the time of the letter had yet to find a position.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1847 October 10
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author notes that her brother and sister, Daniel and Louise, have arrived safely in North Carolina.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1847 December-1848 March
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author reflects on the sickness and death of her younger brother, Albert.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1848 May-September
Written from Pleasant Hill, North Carolina to family members in Whiting, Vermont. In the 3 July and 16 September letters, the author offers views on Southern politics and the possible dissolution of the union.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1849 May 3
Written from Troy Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author has traveled alone from North Carolina to Troy Female Seminary for an indefinite period of time while a Mrs. Willard recuperates from a prolonged illness.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1849 August-1850 February
Written from the author's new school, Munro Academy, in Elbridge, Onondaga County, New York to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author's brother Edward joined her at the Academy for a period of time, but returned home around early November.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1850 April-June
Written from the author's new residence in Columbus, Georgia to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The 5 April letter chronicles the author's return trip to the South, including a tour of Washington, D.C.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1851 July-September
Written from Elberton, Georgia to the author's family in Whiting, Vermont. In the 5 July letter, the author describes a plan for obtaining land for building a school. In the 8 August and 18 September letters, the author encourages her brother, Edward, to travel west to counties in Ohio and Kentucky in search of a farm for sale. Enclosed are three 'for sale' clippings from a newspaper.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1851 December
Written from Hardinsville, Shelby County, Kentucky to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author has met her brother Edward in Kentucky and plans to establish a school, though no land has been acquired.
Mary A. Casey, Letter, 1854 March
Written from Danville, Virginia to family members in Whiting, Vermont. Since the last letter in 1851, Mary has been home to nurse her sick mother in Whiting, and her brother Edward has returned to Whiting permanently.
Mary A. Casey, Letters, 1854 January-1855 October
Written from Winchester Female Seminary in Winchester, Virginia to family members in Whiting, Vermont.
Mary Casey Newman, Letter, 1856 January
Jointly written by Mary and Robert Newman from Winchester Female Seminary in Winchester, Virginia to Mary's mother in Whiting, Vermont. Both authors are employed at the seminary and report on the state of their school and their shared concern for Mary N. Casey's health.
Mary Casey Newman, Letters, 1856 August-September
Written from Winchester Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author is pregnant, as she notes in the closing of the 18 August letter, "baby grows".
Mary Casey Newman, Letter, 1857 February
Written from Winchester Female Seminary to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author laments the loss of her infant son who died on 25 February 1857 of "inflamation of the bowels".
Mary Casey Newman, Letters, 1859 February-November
Written from Belair, a section of Baltimore, Maryland, to family members in Whiting, Vermont. The author mentions two daughters, Frances and Mary, and remarks on the family's tight finances and R.W. Needham's search for a teaching position around Baltimore.
Mary Casey Newman, Letter, 1868 September
Written from Peekskill, New York to Daniel and Carrie Casey, location uncertain but most likely Whiting, Vermont.