Edmonia Highgate to Rev. M. E. Strieby, Jan. 30, 1868
- Title
- Edmonia Highgate to Rev. M. E. Strieby, Jan. 30, 1868
- Date
- 01-30-1868
- Creator
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Edmonia Highgate
- Description
- Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Enterprise, Missouri to Rev. M. E. Strieby regarding conditions there. Some scholars walk five miles from surrounding plantations to attend school. She requests charts, testaments, and a singing book.
- Related Financial Supporters
- American Missionary Association
- Transcript
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Enterprise, Clarke Co. Miss. [Missouri]
January 30th 1868.
Rev. M. E. Strieby
Dear Friend;
I am teaching in this little town situated on the Ohio and Mobile R.R. about fifteen miles from Meridian at which place you have a school and mission house –the hospitality of the latter was very cordially extended to as I passed through there en route for this place. It is a very new and rough field. The freed people have a half finished church without windows or means of warming in which I teach, day night and Sabbath school. At present we have the ground covered with snow a foot and a half deep in the woods through which I walk to school. Some of my scholars come in five miles from the plantations. The people are very lacking of enterprise. I am using all my energy to get a chimney built at the church so I can have a fire the people tell me that in a few months a stove or windows will be useless, however. The people want to learn and I expect to be blessed in what I hope to do here. At present I need so many things that I can not make much progress. I write now to ask you to be as kind as to send me a few of the Elementary Reading Charts published by Barnes & Co, and also some Scriptural Reading Charts printed in a cheap form - they are not on cards. If you could send me some testaments I would be very grateful. The teachers at Meridian gave me a goodly package of “The Freedman” if you could arrange to send some monthly I would be very much obliged. I am without a Sunday School singing book. Would I be asking too much if I included a request for one either a “Sunday School Bell,” or “Golden Chain”? You will not object to sending me the Missionary magazine will you on the score of previous recognition? Please let me know if you received my letter written from Canton concerning Elder Draine, the teacher of a fine school in that place. Please let me hear from you and grant all that you conveniently of my many requests.
Yours very truly,
E. G. Highgate
Care of Mr. Jos Oliver,
Enterprise,
Clarke Co.,
Miss.
P.S. I have not seen Mr. Bardwell.
Part of Edmonia Highgate to Rev. M. E. Strieby, Jan. 30, 1868