Edmonia Highgate writes from Utica, N.Y. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. that she has made arrangements to go south as soon as Feb. 1. She wishes to go to Baltimore, Md., and not to Norfolk, Va.
Edmonia Highgate writes from Utica, N.Y. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. regretting that she cannot go south as soon as she had wished for several reasons. (Only the first page of this letter is available for inclusion.)
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.
Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Havre de Grace, Md. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. reporting that she has arrived in Maryland and will travel to Darlington in the morning. She calls the vicinity a "miserably poor country place," and expresses her surprise at being sent to such a location, writing that she would rather teach in Savannah, Ga. without compensation. She begs Strieby to send her someplace farther south.
Edmonia Highgate writes from McGranville, N.Y. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. asking that he suggest some places in the state that she might visit to raise funds for the A.M.A.
Teachers Edmonia Highgate writes from Portsmouth, Va. to Rev. M. E. Strieby that she will soon be teaching at a school in Norfolk. She asks Strieby to send fabric for clothing, which is much in need.
Edmonia Highgate writes from Oswego Co, N.Y., to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. giving the names of people who have agreed to subscribe to the A.M.A. newspaper.
Edmonia Highgate writes from Syracuse, N.Y. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. No salary was mentioned in her commission. She asks Strieby to send a promised letter of commendation to "your friends in Oswego" and within it mention the matter of her compensation.
Edmonia Highgate writes from New York, N.Y. to Rev. M. E. Strieby of the A.M.A. asking that he send her to New Orleans as a missionary or teacher. She adds that her mother will not allow her to go unless "I have someone to make me prudent in what I ought to try to accomplish."
Edmonia Highgate writes from Toronto, Canada to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn of the A.M.A. that she has arrived there from Montreal, and sees little prospect of raising even as much money in Toronto as she did in Montreal. "There is a great apathy here," she writes. She adds that her mother has been quite ill.
Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Binghamton, N.Y. to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn of the A.M.A. that her school closes on Mar. 18 and she will be ready to go south after that. She reports that her sister is qualified to enter into teaching but is not a professed Christian. Edmonia hopes to be sent to Norfolk, Va. to teach.
Edmonia Highgate writes from Binghamton, N.Y. to Rev. S. S. Jocelyn of the A.M.A. that she is glad she has been approved as a teacher. She requests the salary of a missionary, adding that she is willingly sacrificing a position that makes her twice the money she will make working for the A.M.A. She wishes to go south, "the sooner the better."
Edmonia Highgate writes from Dickinson Co., N.Y. to William E. Whiting of the A.M.A. that in December the "cold. Ladies of Syracuse" sent him a box of clothing for needy freedpeople worth about $200. She asks if he has received this box. She reports that she has some money to send in from fundraising.
Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Darlington, Md. to William E. Whiting of the A.M.A. with a list of her expenses in travelling from New York to Darlington. She asks him to send 12 arithmetic textbooks, 12 physiology textbooks, 12 first readers, 12 third readers, a package of writing books, slates, pencils, pens, ink, a globe, and one book on geography.
Teacher Edmonia Highgate writes from Darlington, Md. to William E. Whiting of the A.M.A. that she has received the box of school books he sent. Some of the books are not the specific titles she requested. She intends to try to exchange them.
Edmonia Highgate writes to the A.M.A. that she wishes to send a draft of money raised and requires instructions. She asks for a copy of the A.M.A.'s report of their operations for the year, and a copy of the A.M.A. magazine for December.
Bureau disbursing agent sends the assistant commissioner for the state, Brig. Gen. Horace M. Brooks, a list of five schoolhouses with the amount of funding and materials they have received from the Bureau, including Havre de Grace and four other Maryland schools in other counties. The cost of labor at Havre de Grace is given as $77.00 and the total cost to the Bureau at this location is given as $1,400.
Bureau disbursing officer Edward H. Monteith requests that Ross, chairman of the school trustees at Havre de Grace, send him an estimate of paint and oil needed, along with the size of the school building. Materials can only be furnished to Havre de Grace once the school has raised sufficient funds to pay for the labor needed to paint the building.
Freedmen's Bureau disbursing officer Edward H. Monteith send the firm of Davis and Pugh a check for $419.35 to pay for materials for Hopewell Crossroads, and asks for the receipts to be signed and returned to his office.
Bureau disbursing officer Edward H. Monteith asks the firm of Davis and Pugh to give Edward Waxwood, the chairman of the building committe at Hopewell Crossroads, a receipt that includes 30 bushels of lime, 7 bushels of hair, 600 bricks, 50 feet of material for black boards, and one lock butt and screws.
Freedmen's Bureau disbursing officer Edward H. Monteith sends the firm of Davis and Pugh a check for $182.95 for materials for both Darlington and Hopewell Crossroads, to be signed and returned to him.
Bureau disbursing officer Edward H. Monteith states that he has received Hopewell trustee Waxwood's letter with estimates for paint, but he believes that the Bureau can provide better. The Bureau will furnish materials for desks, but Waxwood will need to pay to have them made. He calculates that 20 desks, 3 back seats, and a teacher's desk, would cost $35.60. He will send paint and desk materials when the trustees have the money to have the work done.