Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Bullitt Family Papers - Oxmoor Collection, 1683-2003. 164 cu.ft.
Call No.
Mss. A B937c / 143, 332-335, 450, 653a, 1328, 1452, 1459, 1538, 1720, 2689-2690, 2702-2703, 2943-2944, 3284 OVSZ
Content
In 9 February 1842 letter from Mildred Bullitt to her son John she mentioned that she had gone to an exhibition of educated blind children in Louisville and says it has created a great interest for that class here. The Kentucky school for the Blind was established later that year. (143) In a manuscript written in 1906 by Thomas W. Bullitt titled My Life at Oxmoor he wrote about the kind of education that boys and girls received in Kentucky before the Civil War. He also wrote a few anecdotal stories about his experiences in the local schools. (332-335) In a letter dated 15 May 1903 from Susan Bullitt Dixon to her niece Julia Bullitt Gross re: her early life living on the Bullitt family farm, Oxmoor, she described the school she went to as a child, her instructor Robert N. Smith, and the subjects she was taught. (450) Included in Scott Bullitt's scrapbook dated 1898-1902 is a pamphlet re: Trinity Hall School in Louisville.(653a) Among Thomas W. Bullitt's papers is a bill dated 17 April 1924 for Tommy's tuition for Miss Nettie Sale's school.(1328) There were letters re: Collegiate School in Louisville, including its establishment in William Marshall Bullitt's correspondence dated 10 November 1925, June- August 1927, and June 1948.(1452,1459,1538) In Bullitt's diary dated 1940 he wrote of William Speed asking him to fund a building project for the Collegiate School.(1720) Bullitt's scrapbooks dated 1882-1892 included several clippings and mementos re: Trinity Hall School and the Louisville Rugby School.(2689-2690) In Barbara Bullitt Watkins Christian's papers there are letters and papers dated 1926-1935 re: her schooling at Collegiate School in Louisville. (2702-2703) In Nora Bullitt Leake's papers there are letters and papers dated 1926-1934 re: her schooling at Collegiate School in Louisville.(2943-2944) In the 12 February 1816 edition of the Louisville Correspondent there was an advertisement for a female academy run by Mrs. Jett. In the 8 April 1816 edition of the Louisville Correspondent there was an advertisement for Mann Butler's Academy. (3284 ovsz.)
