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Hannah Pierce (1788-1873) wrote to her brother Josiah (1792-1866), who was in college in Brunswick.
Hannah was teaching in Fryeburg and told Josiah how unhappy she was. She said she could not help but be unhappy since the father she "loved and revered" had told her "he was glad" that she was going to leave home to teach.
She told him she hoped she could do well at teaching, a job she had held a number of times before, but that she was "sick of school keeping" and would get any other job she could to support herself so she did not have to keep school again.
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About This Item
- Title: Hannah Pierce on keeping school, 1817
- Creator: Hannah Pierce
- Creation Date: 1817-05-30
- Subject Date: 1817
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Locations:
- Fryeburg, Oxford County, ME
- Brunswick, Cumberland County, ME
- Media: Ink on paper
- Local Code: Coll. 4210
- Collection: Pierce family collection
- Object Type: Text
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Standardized Subject Headings
- Pierce family
- Pierce, Josiah, 1792-1866--Correspondence
- Pierce, Hannah, 1788-1873--Correspondence
- Teaching--Maine
- Teachers--Maine
- Schools--Maine--Fryeburg
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(207) 774-1822 x230
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