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1856 letter from daughter Cornelia Brookes to her mother
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1856 Letter From Daughter Cornelia Brookes to Her Mother. . 1856. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/19787.APA citation style
(1856). 1856 letter from daughter Cornelia Brookes to her mother. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/19787.Chicago citation style
1856 Letter From Daughter Cornelia Brookes to Her Mother. 1856. Retrieved from the Atla Digital Library, https://digitalcollections.samford.edu/documents/detail/19787.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- Letter dated June 10th, 1856. Letter was written by Cornelia to her mother. The letter discusses Cornelia's whereabouts and travels. The letter also mentions the July 4th, 1856 commencement ceremony of the Tuskegee Female College, which was the first class of graduates of the College. Only three women graduated from the College in 1856. Founded in 1856, Tuskegee Female College would later move to Montgomery and become Huntingdon College. Cornelia Brookes was one of the daughters of Baptist clergyman and planter Iveson L. Brookes.
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- This digital object is the property of the Samford University Library and is intended for non-commercial use. Users of the image are asked to acknowledge the Special Collection, Samford University Library. For information about obtaining high-resolution copies of this or other images in this collection, please contact the Special Collection department at Samford University. (mailto:scdept@samford.edu)