The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . d. The nextsummer she taught a district school at the neighboring vil-lage, Reids Corners, for $ a week and boarded round,and proud was she to earn what was then considered excellentwages for a woman. In the fall she joined Guelma at board-ing-school. The little circular, j^ellow with age, reads: DEBORAH MOULSON, having obtained an agreeable location in thepleasant village of Hamilton, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, intends, withthe assistance of competen
The life and work of Susan BAnthony; including public addresses, her own letters and many from her contemporaries during fifty years . d. The nextsummer she taught a district school at the neighboring vil-lage, Reids Corners, for $ a week and boarded round,and proud was she to earn what was then considered excellentwages for a woman. In the fall she joined Guelma at board-ing-school. The little circular, j^ellow with age, reads: DEBORAH MOULSON, having obtained an agreeable location in thepleasant village of Hamilton, in the vicinity of Philadelphia, intends, withthe assistance of competent Teachers, to open immediately a Seminary forFemales. . Terms, $125 per annum, for boarding and tuition. . The inculcation of the principles of Humility, Morality and a love of Vir-tue, will receive particular attention. This was Susans first long absence from home, and her let-ters and journals give a good idea of the thoughts and feelingsof a girl at boarding-school in those days. She developed thenthe letter-writing habit, which has clung to her throughlife. The letters of that time were laborious affairs, often con-. COCO , I o — 00 D CQ 5 z w S S (!? O X X ^ IK w 8 > < Z s w g H< m X GIRLHOOD AND SCHOOL-LIFE. 25 suming days in the writing, commencing even to children,Respected Daughter, or Son, and rarely exceeding one ortwo pages. They were written with a quill pen on foolscappaper, and almost wholly devoted to the weather and the sick-ness in the family. The amount of the latter would be appall-ino[ to modern households. The womens letters were writtenin infinitesimal characters, it being considered unladylike to write a large hand. The Anthonys were exceptional letter-writers. It cost eighteen cents to send a letter, but DanielAnthony was postmaster at Battenville, and his family hadfree use of the mails. If he had had postage to pay on all ofhomesick Susans epistles it would have cost him a good roundsum. The rules of the school required these to be written
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