Manuscript Database
Creator/Title
Tevis, Julia A. (Julia Ann), 1799-1880. Papers, 1841-1884. 0.33 cu. ft.
Call No.
Mss. A T353 / 1, 5
Content
A small collection of personal and professional papers related to Julia Tevis and her work running Science Hill Female Academy in Shelbyville, Kentucky. Folder 1 includes several letters to Julia Tevis from students or parents/guardians of students/prospective students. In a March 25, 1850, letter, a woman writes in the hopes that her sister may be enrolled at Science Hill: “I am quite anxious to have my sister in school…We were so unfortunate as to lose our kind and good mother last summer…but I feel assured that under your influence and protection she will receive religious and intellectual impressions.” In an August 27, 1870, letter, a woman in Texas writes, “Ma is anxious to send you her two little orphan granddaughters, Leila and Lulu Power aged thirteen and eleven years…I have two sons eight and ten years of age and a little girl five. I would like to put the three with you if you can take little boys. I am afraid they will learn all kinds of bad habits if I put them in a boys college.” In an August 29, 1871, letter, Science Hill student Nellie Tracy writes, “Before many days I shall be en route to dear old ‘Science Hill’…My darling Papa and Mama are thankful and happy to think you take such an interest in their darling bad daughter, and feel that in sending me to you, they are not giving or sending me to some strange place, but more like I was going among my own relations.” Nellie also mentions that upon her return she would like to room with a specific girl and have her clothes washed by a specific staffer. In a June 30, 1872, letter, a mother of a Science Hill student writes from New York. Folder 5 contains Science Hill-related publications, including a pamphlet from the 1884 memorial service for Julia Tevis.