to Alexander M. Ross

Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926 to Alexander M. Ross

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GLC#
GLC03007.27-View header record
Type
Letters
Date
11 September 1890
Author/Creator
Adams, Anne Brown, 1843-1926
Title
to Alexander M. Ross
Place Written
Petrolia, California
Pagination
4 p. : Height: 20.5 cm, Width: 13 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
Slavery & Anti-slavery

Thanks him for his offer of "a scholarship at the College" and hopes her second daughter Bertha can raise the funds to attend, and wonders about requirements for acceptance. Plans to write biographies for more of the Harpers Ferry raiders for him when she gets a chance. Wishes times were not so hard for the family so she could give her children a better education, though admits "there are advantages even in hard times...education is not all in the school books." Recipient inferred from content.

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