Rev. John Kimball to Rachel L. Alexander, Sept. 29, 1869

Title

Rev. John Kimball to Rachel L. Alexander, Sept. 29, 1869

Date

09-29-1869

Creator

Rev. John Kimball

Recipient

Rachel L. Alexander

Description

Education Supt. Kimball instructs Rachel L. Alexander to go to Hendon Hill to teach. She is to travel by train to Magnolia Station and take a stagecoach the rest of the way. Her salary will be $20.00 per month, plus board. She is to pay her own fare to the school, which will be reimbursed the following July. Instructs her to write to him as soon as she arrives, and he will send her a register and report forms. Advises her that George M. McComas may add something to this letter. (Kimball had sent this letter to McComas to be forwarded to Alexander. This is Kimball's office copy, so it is unknown whether or not McComas added any content to the copy Alexander received.)

References

G.M. McComas (George March)

School

Bel Air aka Hendon Hill

Source

Smithsonian, National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Transcript

Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Office Supt. Education, D.C. &c
Washington, Sept. 29th 1869.

[[underlined]] Alexander Miss Rachel L. [[/underlined]]

Dear Miss:

I wish you to open school at Hendon Hall, near Fallston, Harford Co., Md., next Monday. You will come by R.R. to Magnolia Station, then take a stage to the place. Your salary will be $20.00 per mo., and board. The people will only be asked to board you. You will pay your own fare to the place, and the Society will pay it home next July. Write me as soon as you leave for the place, and I will sell you Register and Blanks for reports. [[underlined]] Mr. George M. McComas, [[/underlined]] may add something to these directions.

Respectfully Yours,
(Sgd.) John Kimball,
Supt. Education.

IIIF Manifests

https://ids.si.edu/ids/manifest/NMAAHC-007675717_00402