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Putnam Catlin letter to Steuben Butler
00-2023-38-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2023-38-0
Abstract
Letter from Putnam Catlin to his Steuben Butler explaining his family's financial situation and the difficulties he faces providing his children with education due to both tuition costs and to the loss of labor on his farm if he doesn't have them there to help. He notes that he may be able to sell land to pay for his son George Catlin to attend the Litchfield Law School for a year. He writes, "If he shall persist in the choice of law he will have to glean for himself an Education in some law...
Dates:
1815-05-03
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Julia Henrietta Jones letter to Laura Boardman Lane
00-2023-37-0
Item
Identifier: 00-2023-37-0
Abstract
Letter from Julia Henrietta Jones to Laura Boardman Lane offering excuses for not writing sooner. Jones details a doctor’s success in treating Mary Deming, also a former Female Academy student, who would die the following month.
Dates:
1847-03-31
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield 2nd School District minute book
00-1983-08-0
Collection
Identifier: 00-1983-08-0
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield 2nd School District minute book (1983-08-0) contains meeting minutes for the years 1858 through 1879. The minutes in the volume record the activities of the annual meeting for each year. Topics such as repairing the school house and hiring a female teacher are seen early on in the book. "Register of 2nd School District Litchfield" is recorded in the front cover. It is also referred to as the Chestnut Hill School District in some of the annual meeting minutes.
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Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-1879; Other: Date acquired: 12/07/1982
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield 6th School District Minute Book
00-1973-72-3
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-72-3
Scope and Contents
The Litchfield 6th School District Minute Book (1973-72-3) was used by the 6th District School between 1799 and 1877. It contains details of propositions put to vote such as how to use money or collect money or filling positions. Currently housed in 3A Box 30.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1799-1877; Other: Date acquired: 01/08/1973
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Litchfield Female Academy collection
1890-07-2
Collection
Identifier: 1890-07-2
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the history of The Litchfield Female Academy, Litchfield, Connecticut. Early records refer to the Academy as Miss Pierce's School, Miss Pierce's Academy, and Sarah Pierce's Academy. In the collection are institutional records; correspondence, diaries, journals, school notebooks, and albums of students; papers of Sarah Pierce and the Pierce family; and correspondence of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel regarding her research for her books "Chronicles of a Pioneer School, from...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1787-1927; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1890
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Marrin Family Papers
2013-110-0
Collection
Identifier: 2013-110-0
Scope and Contents
The Marrin Family Papers 2013-110-0, primarily consist of the papers of Oswald Marrin, Jr., but there are also papers from other family members, including his parents, Jean Fyfe Marrin and Oswald Marrin, Sr. Among the papers of Oswald Marrin, Jr. are his school papers from Center School, Spring Hill School. the Hackley School and Brown University. There are also papers and correspondence from his years in the Marines during World War II, as well as some business records, newspaper...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1858-2001; Other: Date acquired: 01/06/2013
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Northfield School Society Minute Book
00-1973-67-1
Collection
Identifier: 00-1973-67-1
Scope and Contents
The Northfield School Society Minute Book (1973-67-1) contains records of the School Society meetings, the officers, and what the organization voted on, usually officers but also voted on matters such as building (and where to build) a new school or maintaining a burial ground. Currently housed in 3A Box 30.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1814-1856; Other: Date acquired: 1973-01-08
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Pierce family correspondence
1978-39-8
Collection
Identifier: 1978-39-8
Scope and Contents
The Pierce Family Correspondence consists primarily of letters to and from the children of John Pierce and his first wife, Mary (Paterson) Pierce, as well as of his second wife, Mary (Goodman) Pierce. The collection documents events of national importance: John Pierce, a colonel and paymaster in the Continental Army, received letters from numerous correspondents concerning military, administrative, and political news of the American Revolution. Moreover, the Pierce brothers traveled...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1775-1825; Other: Majority of material found in 1776-1825; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1978
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Region 20 report and ephemera
2022-43-0
File
Identifier: 2022-43-0
Content Description
Temporary Regional School Study Committee report; stickers; mailers; and brochures for a new regional school
Dates:
2022
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society
Spring Hill School collection
1951-30-0
Collection
Identifier: 1951-30-0
Scope and Contents
The Spring Hill School collection (1951-30-0, .83 linear feet) documents a private school modelled on a philosophy of progressive education. Founded by Dorothy Bull and Mabel Foster Spinney in Litchfield, Conn., the school operated from 1926 to 1939. The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, institutional records, brochures, and published editions of student work. The collection also contains tributes to co-founders Bull from 1934 and Spinney from 1951 and a...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1926-1940; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1951
Found in:
Litchfield Historical Society