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To Frances Chrystie, 1840 September 28

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September 28, 1840, Pelham Priory; labeled "(No 4)" in an unknown hand at top of first page; with her time at Pelham Priory coming to an end, Mary writes her mother to tell her that she still suffers from a cough, headaches, and a sore throat and asks if she can come home as soon as possible; most interesting are Mary's own lesson plans for her winter at home: she has 2 hours set aside with her father (bookeeping, sums, writing, spelling, and French), time spent studying history, notably "Ramsay's United States" (David Ramsay's History of the United States, unfinished at his death in 1815, but completed by his brother-in-law, S. Stanhope Smith; Ramsay was a graduate of Princeton in 1765) with her mother, and supplemental learning with a number of composition books, reading a dictionary, and memorizing French phrases and verbs, with, perhaps, some readings from "Banicastle's astronomy" (John Bonnycastle's Introduction to Astronomy, London, 1796), with music and painting filling in the rest of her time.

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Collection History

Appraisal

No materials were separated during 2014 processing.

Processing Information

This collection was processed by Eric Johnson in 2002. Finding aid written by Ian Dooley and Miranda Marraccini in 2014.

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This collection is open for research.

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Credit this material:

To Frances Chrystie; Mary Chrystie Papers, COTSEN1, Cotsen Children's Library, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library

Location:
Firestone Library
One Washington Road
Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
(609) 258-1148
Storage Note:
  • Firestone Library (hsvc): Box 1

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Related Materials

For additional biographical and geneological information about the Chrystie/ Few families and Mary Chrystie, as well as classroom teaching materials related to the collection, see notes by Eric Johnson at Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library.

Mary Chrystie Collection; 1856-2003; Princeton University Library Records, Princeton University Archives, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Bibliography

Eric Johnson, Ohio State University, "Making Mary: Maternal Shaping and the Construction of Childhood in the Mary Christie Archive".