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Everett, Robert & Elizabeth (parents), Everett family outgoing correspondence, 1850-1877

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Title Everett, Robert & Elizabeth (parents), Everett family outgoing correspondence, 1850-1877

Date 1850-1877

Language English, Welsh

Subjects Abolitionists, Brothers and sisters, Congregational churches

Extent 6.9 linear feet (16.5 boxes)

Format Correspondence

User-Contributed Transcription so you see I am much better. Expect to take a walk out this afternoon. I have not been much sick and think it very strange how I lost any strength so; perhaps it was because I did not exercise it. Last thurs. eve, the night I received your letter, Rev. Dr. Poor, who has been a missionary to Ceylon 30 years and expects soon to return, lectured in the sem. hall to the young ladies, I was very sorry not to be able to attend. They say he was very interesting. "His text was, come thou with us, and we will do thee good." I have not heard a great deal about what he said, but one thing Hattie told me I thought I must relate to father. He said that there was only one class of females in Ceylon who ever learned to read, they were called the dancing girls and they read in order to learn the songs. They never married and were regarded as the wives of the gods. They frequently steal children and educate them for dancing girls. He mentioned, this as one instance, a young girl who had charge of a white babe carried it out one day and the babe went to sleep, she laid it down in the shade and steped the other side of the bushes to pick some berries, while she was gone the dancing girls found the child and stole it. Great search was made for the babe but without success. Five or six years afterwards a friend told the mother that her child was at such a No. in a certain street, she immediately ordered her carriage and went to find it. When she drove up to the gate she saw several children

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Archival Collection Title Everett family papers

Link to Catalog View finding aid | View record

Call Number Midwest MS Everett Box 4 Folder 156

BibID 998218028805867

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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File Created 07/25/2016

Filename 998218028805867_mms_everett_ser_01_box_04_fl_156_004_02.tif

Unique Identifier NL1FWT2

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