Letter from Celia Coonts, Parent of Students in a Freedmen's School, to Freedmen's Teacher Lucy Chase, 1870?
Dear Miss Lucy Chase
I send Rosanna and Willis to school to obey your orders for I certainy do feel[?] you I heard that you had mighty bad scollars at that school I want you to please send me word Whether Willis and Rosanna do obey you or not if they dont obey you I want you to send me word for I promised to remember them if they dont I would please me very much if you would punish them when they don’t obey you I want to please send me them home when the trains come
Celia Coonts
An American Antiquarian
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Curated by Lucia Z. Knoles, Professor of English, Assumption College