Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 176

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Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(EDUCATION.) Alzora Mathews. A mother's letter to her children's new teacher in rural North Carolina. Autograph Letter Signed to unidentified teacher. 2 pages on 2 sheets, 8 x 5¾ inches; torn from notepad on top edge, lightly toned. With typed transcript. [Cary, NC], circa 1927
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In part: "Dear Teacher . . . I am fixing my three childrins, sendin them to school when I can, and I want you to whip my three childrens and make them mind you . . . an give them lession like you do the other scollars, and then if the is so hod-headed that you can't learn them, please let me no. Major learns very slow as long as he has ben going to school. I have bought him 3 books and he hasen't got fur yet. . . . Let them out so the can get home before night when they is late. It leave me very uneasy about them because the haves three miles to come up the highway rode, and the all is small, so I hope I an't made no hod feeling."

Alzora and her 1-year-old son Major appear in the 1920 census for Cary, North Carolina. Cary was then a rural area, newly connected to the nearby city of Raleigh by a paved highway (now Western Boulevard). It grew rapidly in the 1960s and 1970s, and is now at the heart of North Carolina's Research Triangle.