Box 243 1

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About a teacher, Mr. J. W. Carpenter, then teaching at his school, who had the previous year been in trouble over a young woman of the town whom he had since married. Jackson says that except for that one incident, Carpenter's reputation and behavior had been very fine.

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Asking for the names of all of those present at the last Teachers' Institute so that he may advertise his Teacher's Book of Instrumentalities and School Requisites.

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Professor Perkins will be able to attend the Institute planned for the spring.

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In regard to a notice that there will be a public examination of students in the near future. Camp says, on behalf of the other trustees, that their school will not be taking part in the examination.

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About Ford's appearance as a lecturer at a future Teachers' Institute.

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Town cannot, at the time, indicate whether or not he will be able to visit Ithaca.

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Sherman Miller has been newly elected Town Superintendent of Schools. Canfield and Stevens are going to School [to keep school?]

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Giving exact time of his arrival in Ithaca.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION From the Collection: Correspondence and other papers of the Robertson family of Washington County, New York, and several other related families, dealing mostly with family matters and the migration westward of family members to Ohio, Missouri, Minnesota, and California. The papers of Smith Robertson consist of his letters written while a student at Union College (Schenectady, New York) and as superintendent of Common Schools in Tompkins County; also as a medical student at Geneva Medical College, at Yale...

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They have found the journals he enquired about and wish to know if he wants them to be sent to him.