A Guide to the Mary Susan Gregory Papers, 1870-1889 Gregory, Mary Susan, Papers, 1870-1889 10754,-a,-b

A Guide to the Mary Susan Gregory Papers, 1870-1889

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Accession Number 10754,-a,-b


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Repository
Special Collections, University of Virginia Library
Accession number
10754,-a,-b
Title
Mary Susan Gregory Papers 1870-1889
Physical Characteristics
This collection contains seventeen items.
Language
English

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Preferred Citation

Mary Susan Gregory Papers, 1870-1889, Accession # 10754,-a,-b, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

The papers of Mary Susan Gregory were made a gift to the Library by Arvella Embry and Page Gregory Whitmore of Minneapolis, Minnesota on March 30, 1988 (#10754), May 2, 1988 (#10754-a), and May 16, 1989 (#10754-b).

Scope and Content Information

This collection, 1870-1889, of seventeen items, pertains chiefly to the Augusta County teaching career of Mary Susan Gregory. Her original diary, 1873-1876, and various versions, including an electrostatic copy, two Word Star floppy disks, and the published diary and transcript edited by Page Gregory Whitmore and Arvella Embry Whitmore (soft and hard covers), comprise accessions #10754 and #10754-a. The published diary and transcript also includes a family history, photographs, and copies or transcripts of certain items from accession #10754-b. Related teaching certificates and papers, 1870-1877, are contained in accession #10754-b. Included are authorizations to teach in the counties of Rockingham (September 1870) and Augusta (May, August, and December 1871); an agreement to teach at Briery Branch School in Rockingham County (December 1870); answers to an examination of teachers sent to Robert S. Hamilton (December 1873); "First Grade Teacher's Certificate" (September 1874); "Examination of Teachers" (October 1877); a list of Miss Gregory's scholars; and, a newspaper clipping listing her as a teacher in Augusta County (December 1871). There are also two bound volumes: "teacher's pocket record" kept as a school records during the 1870s, and as a farm book, 1878-1882, by Mary Susan Gregory; and, a journal, 1876-1885, chiefly of a trip to the Philadelphia Centennial Celebration kept by John Addison Whitmore. Mary Susan Gregory and John Addison Whitmore were married on November 1, 1877.