Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pp.+ stampless address leaf. To her brother, Calvin Whipple Philleo, Suffield, Conn. Mrs. Goodwin, a divorcee with four children, who directed a boarding house on the property of Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to her brother, clerk of the Connecticut Legislature. She describes the amusing medley at the Emerson boarding house, including a son of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch but was particularly excited to detail her change to a more lucrative position as Matron of Dr. Samuel Howe’s Perkins Institution for the Blind. She was the step-daughter of Prudence Crandall (the heroic Connecticut teacher who opened the first racially-integrated school for Black girls in America), to her brother, an anti-slavery political activist, writing that she was to be hired by Julia Ward Howe’s husband as Matron of the Perkins School for the Blind. Emeline Conor Philleo Goodwin and Calvin Whipple Philleo were the children of Prudence Crandall's husband, Calvin Philleo. In 1833, Crandall established the first school for African American girls. Ther Perkins Institution for the Blind is the oldest school for the blind in the U. S. Samuel Gridley Howe served as its first director and was the husband of Julia Ward Howe, best remembered for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Autograph Letter Signed. 4 pp.+ stampless address leaf. To her brother, Calvin Whipple Philleo, Suffield, Conn. Mrs. Goodwin, a divorcee with four children, who directed a boarding house on the property of Ralph Waldo Emerson writes to her brother, clerk of the Connecticut Legislature. She describes the amusing medley at the Emerson boarding house, including a son of mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch but was particularly excited to detail her change to a more lucrative position as Matron of Dr. Samuel Howe’s Perkins Institution for the Blind. She was the step-daughter of Prudence Crandall (the heroic Connecticut teacher who opened the first racially-integrated school for Black girls in America), to her brother, an anti-slavery political activist, writing that she was to be hired by Julia Ward Howe’s husband as Matron of the Perkins School for the Blind. Emeline Conor Philleo Goodwin and Calvin Whipple Philleo were the children of Prudence Crandall's husband, Calvin Philleo. In 1833, Crandall established the first school for African American girls. Ther Perkins Institution for the Blind is the oldest school for the blind in the U. S. Samuel Gridley Howe served as its first director and was the husband of Julia Ward Howe, best remembered for writing "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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