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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 17 records found where LC Subject Heading is Friendship in adolescence -- Southern states -- 19th century
	Letter from unknown author to Mattie Logan Southgate, September 08, 1882 Mattie Logan Southgate ("Tom) received this letter from a schoolmate writing under the alias of "bed bug.". The author mentions hosting Mollie Page and Leland Sneed, two Wesleyan Female Institute friends who reside in Virginia. There is a strong likelihood that Mettie Ricketts, Mattie's friend from W.F.I. authored this letter. The author tells Mattie of a horseback ride with Jim White and the young man's expression of "undying love" for her. She describes her travels with Mollie Page and Leland Sneed to Red Hill and the picnic and dances they attended. She closes with her plans to commence teaching and asks Mattie if she intends to continue her studies at the Wesleyan Female Institute.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, December 31, 1881 Mollie Page, school friend from Wesleyan Female Institute, writes Mattie about the festivities surrounding Christmas at her home in Batesville, Virginia. She attends a series of parties and writes of her conversation with Ed Martin and her correspondence with Leland Sneed (Lela) and Mettie Ricketts, fellow W. F. I. students.
	Letter from N. O. Wilkinson to Mattie Logan Southgate, January 27, 1880 N. O. Wilkinson sends this letter to her young neighbor Mattie Logan Southgate, a student at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia. Mrs. Wilkinson sends news about her children, Willie, Minnie, and Tommie. Mattie's sister, Annie Southgate spent the day with Mrs. Wilkinson's daughter, Willie. N. O. Wilkinson reports the activities of Durham's young people over Christmas and notes the construction activity in town. She mentions her son's recent hunting trip and reminisces about her school days at Greensboro College. Mrs. Wilkinson closes with a request that Mattie's sister Lessie send her news from school.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, September 12, 1882 Under her nickname, "Mary Eddie," Mollie Page writes her school friend, Mattie Logan Southgate "Tom" to ask if she will come back to school. Mollie has planned to room with Mattie at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Mollie sends news of Leland Sneed and Mettie Ricketts and some other friends.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, January 23, 1883 Mollie Page writes her friend Mattie Logan Southgate about an outbreak of scarlet fever at the Wesleyan Female Institute. After the principal William A. Harris informs his students of the disease, the young women flee school. Mollie describes the mass exodus of the girls as they sought refuge with their friends, relatives, and in the hotels in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia. Mollie reports that their friends Pattie, Cora, Cherry, Dean, and Eddie are safe but the fever took the life of Nannie Jordan. She relates her own story of illness while at the Wesleyan Female Institute, the visit of Dr. Henkle, and her subsequent recovery from dropsy at her home in Batesville, Virginia.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, January 29, 1883 Writing under her nickname "Mary Eddie," Mollie Page sends her friend Mattie Logan Southgate ("Tom") news about principal William A. Harris' plan for resuming classes at the Wesleyan Female Institute. Mollie reports that Dr. Harris sent her father a letter with his proposal to start school in February, but she doubts that she will be able to attend. Mollie tells Mattie of her plans to travel to Charlottesville with her father and promises to send a photograph of herself. She shares news of their friends Lela, "Dean," Pattie, Cherry and her brother Bob. Mollie closes with a discussion of men, marriage, and tobacco.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01, 1883 Mollie Page reminisces about her school days with Mattie Southgate at the Wesleyan Female Institute. She notes that school is in session and reports that the fever is still raging. Her father, she reports, "thinks the people are crazy to send their daughters back." Mollie refers to the March 1st Resolution and the pledge to correspond with her school friends. She tells Mattie that she has already written their friends "Dean" and "Eddie" and that she expects to receive a letter from Mattie. Mollie tells Mattie about social events in Batesville, complains that she missed Lela's birthday celebration, and notes that she will turn eighteen later in the month.
	Letter from Leland Sneed to Mattie Logan Southgate, April 04, 1883 Writing under her nickname "S. Eddie," Leland Sneed sends news to her friend Mattie Southgate ("Old Tom') about the parties and dances that she attends near her home in Bellevue, Virginia. She tells Mattie about the boys--Will Page, Jim White, and Steve Carpenter-- who traveled from Red Hill for the dances and reports on Mettie Rickett's courting. Leland reveals that she and her friend Byrdie Townley spied on Mettie and her beaux. In response to the eavesdropping, the courting couple whipped their friends with a cowhide.
	Letter from Celestia Muse Southgate to Annie Moore Southgate, February 08, 1885 In this letter, from Lessie Southgate to, her sister, Annie Moore Southgate, Lessie (Celestia Muse) Southgate describes events occurring in Durham: a sermon, "musicale," and an upcoming Valentine's Day party. Lessie shares news about the Duke family, Lipscomb family, Blackwell family, Carr family, and Lockhart family. Lessie depicts a horseback outing with Emma Lockhart, Julian S. Carr, and others. While riding through Hayti, she stopped to to see Adaline, one of the family's domestic servants, who is ill. Lessie mentions the arrival of the "Wizzard Oil Band of Singers," a group that performs open air concerts. She concludes her note with humorous news of Annie's dog, Zoe.
	Letter from Leland Sneed to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 01 1883 Leland Sneed, whose nickname is "Sammie Eddie," writes her school friend Mattie Southgate ( "Son Tom" ) about her recent birthday party. Leland mentions the gifts from her parents, particularly the bracelets she received from her father. She refers to the March 1st resolution to which she and her Wesleyan Female Institute school friends, Mettie Ricketts, Mattie Southgate, and Mollie Page, subscribed.
	Resolution, March 01, 1883 Wesleyan Female Institute schoolmates Leland Sneed ("Sammie Eddie"), Mettie Ricketts ("Dean"), Mattie Southgate ("Tom"), and Mollie Page ("Mary Eddie") pledge to never forget their "resolutions the 1st of March and getting married." The resolution appears to have been penned by Mollie Page.
	Letter from Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to Annie Southgate, March 1885 Mattie Southgate Jones writes, her sister, Annie Southgate with news of illnesses and happenings in the Durham community. "Tomato" (a pet name that she uses for her husband, Thomas Decatur Jones) and A.S. DeVlarming, her husband's book-keeper have battled fever and measles, respectively. Mrs. Bob Jones experienced a miscarriage, Kate Conrad battles pneumonia and DeVlarming copes with measles. She reports that her sister Lessie will work together with Mrs. George Watts, Dora Fanning, Minnie Carter, and, Marion Fuller to organize a concert. Mattie shares news of her visitors. She mentions her garden, quilt making, and embroidery.
	Letter from Mollie Page to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 08, 1889 Upon reading a death notice for Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889) in the Durham Daily Globe, Mollie Page writes her friend Mattie Logan Southgate Jones to express her condolences. Mollie Page and Mattie Southgate Jones roomed together at the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.
	Letter from Mettie Ricketts to Mattie Logan Southgate Jones, November 11, 1889 Mettie Ricketts sends her friend, Mattie Southgate Jones a letter of sympathy on the death of her husband Thomas Decatur Jones (1852-1889). Mettie Ricketts and Mattie Southgate attended the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia during the early 1880s.
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, November 20, 1881 James Haywood Southgate writes his sister Mattie Logan Southgate with news from home and advice for her studies at Wesleyan Female Institute James commends Mattie on the progress she made in her report card grades and counsels his sister on how to build a "superior intellectual edifice." He advises that she use her letter writing to "improve her mode of expression" and suggests that she abandon her habitual practice of underlining. James thanks for Mattie for sending a photograph. He details the foods that the Southgate family has brought to their Durham home in order to host visitors for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South's North Carolina Annual Conference. He describes his plans to travel to Atlanta for the Exhibition and notes that he may visit his Uncle Thomas Wynne and his family in Columbus, Georgia. He closes by inquiring after a parcel he sent Mattie. James writes his letter on stationery from the Office of James Southgate, General, Fire, Insurance and Commission Agent.
	Letter from James Haywood Southgate to Mattie Logan Southgate, March 20, 1878 James Haywood Southgate compliments his sister, Mattie Southgate, on her improvement in penmanship. He tells her of his visit with Dr. Le Doux and his wife and remarks that he feels "like getting a wife myself." James confides that he will not marry until he has $10,000 in the bank. This letter is written on stationery from the Citizen's Insurance Company of Newark, New Jersey.
	Letter from Kate Sanborn to Mattie Logan Southgate, October 12, 1884 In this letter, from Kate Sanborn to Mattie Southgate, Kate reacts with surprise to Mattie Southgate's announcement of her upcoming wedding. She berates Mattie for setting a date for the wedding while neglecting to inform her of the groom's name. Kate wonders whether the groom is Capt. Wahab or Mr. Duke.

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