Letters from Nellie Marie Reed

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 6973

Scope and content

Typescripts transcripts of letters from Nellie Marie Reed to her mother, Amelia Elisabeth Leonard Reed and her brother Raymond Clinton Reed, who were living in Ithaca, describing her voyage across the Atlantic, her travels in Germany (Weimar, Jena, Berlin), her trip to Greece via Vienna and Constantinople, and her studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and her return trip through Rome, Florence, and London. Letters were transcribed by her granddaughter, Ann Townsend, 2010.

Dates

1895-1896.

Creator

Reed, Nellie Marie. (Person)

Language of Material

In English.

Biographical / Historical

Nellie Marie Reed was born in Caroline, Tompkins County, N.Y. in 1872. She graduated from Ithaca High School and entered Cornell in 1891. At Cornell she was a member of Delta Gamma sorority and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. After graduating with a B.A. in 1895, she traveled to Europe to attend the American School of Classical Archaeology in Athens, Greece. She later taught Latin and Greek at the Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn from 1896 to 1903. In 1903 she married a classmate Samuel Howard Burnett (A.B. '92, M.S. '96, DVM '02), who became a professor in the Veterinary College. They had three children. Samuel Burnett died in 1928, and iIn 1931, Mrs. Burnett became the assistant librarian at the Flower Veterinary Library at Cornell. Nellie Burnett died in 1957.