Title: Autograph letter, signed from a New England teacher in Alabama who opposes slavery Author: M[oore], Levina Place: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Publisher: Date: December 1, 1848 Description: 3pp.+ stampless address leaf. From Sevina Moore ("oore" excised by the removal of the original wax seal). To Harriet Hawes, Boston. Moore, a Bostonian and reportedly a relative of Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon, had heard from Lyon that Miss Hawes, the college’s instructor of Vocal Music (who had numbered among her students Emily Dickinson) might be willing to “come South” for a year to teach at the Alabama Female Institute. Moore urges her to accept the position: “…You will find it pleasantly situated, fine society, many Northerners, some noted for their piety and worth. We have a pleasant building and grounds, we can make you quite comfortable and I trust happy. Some one told me your father did not like your coming to a slave state, tell him, he need not fear you in that. I can promise to return you safe to New Eng. both in heart and principle on that subject. I have spent six years in a slave state and am no more in favor of the system than when I first set my foot in it, and I find many southerners who dislike the system and prefer free states…You will enjoy the life no doubt and to pause a little here in the Sunny South…” With over 200 pupils, the Alabama Female Institute in Tuscaloosa was one of the first institutions of higher education for women in the state, dating from the 1830s. The Principal for many years was another Mount Holyoke alumna, and Moore herself became Principal before the Civil War, when the school was closed after occupation by Union troops. Lot Amendments Condition: Yellowed on address side and at edges; very good. Item number: 230285
Title: Autograph letter, signed from a New England teacher in Alabama who opposes slavery Author: M[oore], Levina Place: Tuscaloosa, Alabama Publisher: Date: December 1, 1848 Description: 3pp.+ stampless address leaf. From Sevina Moore ("oore" excised by the removal of the original wax seal). To Harriet Hawes, Boston. Moore, a Bostonian and reportedly a relative of Mount Holyoke founder Mary Lyon, had heard from Lyon that Miss Hawes, the college’s instructor of Vocal Music (who had numbered among her students Emily Dickinson) might be willing to “come South” for a year to teach at the Alabama Female Institute. Moore urges her to accept the position: “…You will find it pleasantly situated, fine society, many Northerners, some noted for their piety and worth. We have a pleasant building and grounds, we can make you quite comfortable and I trust happy. Some one told me your father did not like your coming to a slave state, tell him, he need not fear you in that. I can promise to return you safe to New Eng. both in heart and principle on that subject. I have spent six years in a slave state and am no more in favor of the system than when I first set my foot in it, and I find many southerners who dislike the system and prefer free states…You will enjoy the life no doubt and to pause a little here in the Sunny South…” With over 200 pupils, the Alabama Female Institute in Tuscaloosa was one of the first institutions of higher education for women in the state, dating from the 1830s. The Principal for many years was another Mount Holyoke alumna, and Moore herself became Principal before the Civil War, when the school was closed after occupation by Union troops. Lot Amendments Condition: Yellowed on address side and at edges; very good. Item number: 230285
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