Conditions Governing Use:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of copyright, if not Swem Library.

Conditions Governing Access:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Preferred Citation:

John L. Babb's Notebook of Pike's Arithmetic and Smith's Arithmetic, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information:

Purchase.

Scope and Contents

Pike's Arithmetic and Smith's Arithmetic copied by John L. Babb, probably in Hardy County, WV.  Also contains exercises in punctuation, valedictory address of Jennie Cross at Morgantown Female Seminiary and a dialogue read by Julia F. Ackon and Annie C. Ballon June 27, 1856 at the annual examination of the Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton, Virginia.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Arithmetic--Study and teaching
• Hardy County (W. Va.)--History--19th century
• Notebooks
• Speeches, addresses, etc.