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Religious education.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

David Fay Edwards papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064714433]
Identifier: 1209
Scope and content

Letters and journals of David Fay Edwards of Lisle, New York, describing experiences as a seminary student and later as a teacher in Illinois, a trip to California, family matters and genealogical notes. Also, two copies of VALIANT FOR TRUTH: LIFE, LETTERS AND DIARIES OF DAVID FAY EDWARDS by his nephew, Richard Henry Edwards (1952), and notes regarding Edwards's biography.

Dates: 1843-1952.

Shelton family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064923802]
Identifier: 808
Scope and content Collection consists largely of letters between members of the interrelated Tappan, Brewster, Tomlinson, and Shelton families, and emphasizes religious, missionary, and educational experiences. Included are a letter (1821) from a female teacher at the Brainard Cherokee Mission School; letters (1827) from Anne Tappan at Catharine Beecher's School in Hartford, Connecticut; letters (1834) from Lucy Tappan, a teacher at a religious academy in Detroit, concerning local conditions, Miss Beecher,...
Dates: 1783-1934.