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Box 243 1

 Container

Contains 149 Results:

From Robert Alien, Joseph Ammack, Samuel Alien, Jonathan Owen, Woodard White, and John Fish, all of Enfield, to SR, Superintendent of Tompkins Co. Common Schools, January 15, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Letter is an appeal to SR in behalf of a poor family in the school district. The District Board of Trustees has demanded the payment of the rate bill by this man who does not have the money. The petitioners are asking SR to exempt this man from the rate bill.

Dates: January 15, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From S. Town of Aurora to SR, Supt. Tompkins Co. Common School, March 8, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

S. Town can not accept invitation of SR.

Dates: March 8, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From E. G. Starke, Auburn, to SR, March 10, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents A letter which SR mailed to Starke had been sent to the wrong address and the event which Starke had been invited to, had already taken place. Starke is angered by a movement in Albany seeking to abolish County Superintendents. He attacks Silas Wright, U.S. Senator 1833; reelected 1837 and 1843; governor 1845-47, as being the American Cato and states that Wright has not the information needed to make the statements he has been making. Starke comes out against "bigotry and ignorance coupled...
Dates: March 10, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From Edwin Cooper, Waterloo Academy, to SR, March 15, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Cooper can not "during his vacation" visit SR but will be in Ithaca for two days during the next institute. He praises SR's work and comments on the effect it has upon other counties.

Dates: March 15, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From S. Young, Ballston, to SR, Ithaca, March 25, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents The letter is an answer to an invitation of SR to Young. Young talks about the prejudices of certain segments of the community against the school system. Young says that education is not for the rich alone, as the mass of people think, but for the poor as well. No one should be denied the opportunity of receiving an education. '"No philanthropist should remit his exertions until our Schools are raised to such a grade of utility as to embrace all the children of the State, the sons and...
Dates: March 25, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From Edwin Cooper, Waterloo to SR, Ithaca, April 7, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Cooper will not be able to attend the Teacher Institute in Ithaca because of the illness of his wife.

Dates: April 7, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

From Cyrus Robertson, Albion, Michigan, to his brother Smith Robertson, Ithaca, May 4, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
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...
Dates: May 4, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

>Lovel (?) Preston, Caroline, to SR, May 30, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Letter is praising SR for his system of school instruction.

Dates: May 30, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

Printed folder - written by Franklin Knight, July 1, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

The folder is a sort of advertisement for a book of facsimiles of letter from George Washington on agriculture Knight has published that will "have a most salutary influence in correcting, in the youth of our country, many false notions regarding the character of agricultural pursuits."

Dates: July 1, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

Letter from the publisher, Alexander V. Blake, N.Y.C. to SR, July 1, 1845

 Item — Box: 243 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

Printed circular for Wickham's "Educational Incentives," particularly Teacher's Tokens with facsimile. Letter tells SR about the invention of a School Ledger which would enable a teacher to keep permanent records of students.

Dates: July 1, 1845
Found in: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections / 852, Robertson family papers / Series I. Correspondence / January 10 - July 18, 1845 (15 items)

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