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Box 243 1

 Container

Contains 149 Results:

From Thomas (?) Dwight, Albany, to SR, August 2

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

Dwight is asking SR for information of the upcoming Tompkins County Institute.

Dates: August 2

From Peter Selover, Homer, to SR, November 4

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents

The author of the letter had been promised a letter he did not receive. He is now appealing to SR for a certificate and/or a letter of recommendation.

Dates: November 4

From Edwin Cooper, Syracuse, to SR, Ithaca, October 22, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Cooper will not be able to attend the Teachers' Institute. He also encourages SR to accept a copy of a "current volume of the Advocates'" and to encourage the teachers in his district to become subscribers.

Dates: October 22, 1845

From O. O. Wickham, N.Y.C. to SR, October 27, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Wickham will not be able to attend the Institute and present his "Educational Incentives" to the teachers present. However, he is sending samples and asks that a wall chart called School Chart of Characteristics be placed on the wall of some room at the Institute.

Dates: October 27, 1845

From Charles R. Coburn, Owego, to SR, October 30, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Inviting SR and Mr. Barnard to the Owego Institute and Esq. Gillet, if he can be spared. He invites SR to speak to them about education.

Dates: October 30, 1845

From Daniel Jackson, Burdett, to SR, November 8, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

About a teacher, Mr. J. W. Carpenter, then teaching at his school, who had the previous year been in trouble over a young woman of the town whom he had since married. Jackson says that except for that one incident, Carpenter's reputation and behavior had been very fine.

Dates: November 8, 1845

From O. O. Wickham, N.Y.C. to SR, November 13, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Asking for the names of all of those present at the last Teachers' Institute so that he may advertise his Teacher's Book of Instrumentalities and School Requisites.

Dates: November 13, 1845

From Thomas Slater, Albany, to SR, January 27, 1846

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents

Professor Perkins will be able to attend the Institute planned for the spring.

Dates: January 27, 1846