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This collection contains 3 letters (6 pages) that Sarah Butler Davis wrote to her sister, Eliza Eldredge, while studying under a private female tutor in Norwich, Connecticut, in the fall of 1815. Davis sent her regards to her family, who lived in Providence, Rhode Island, and discussed her life in Connecticut.

This collection contains 3 letters (6 pages) that Sarah Butler Davis wrote to her sister, Eliza Eldredge, while studying under a private female tutor in Norwich, Connecticut, in the fall of 1815.

On October 12, 1815, Davis reported that her trunks had been delayed, but that she had enjoyed her first days in Norwich, where she boarded and studied with a "Miss Hyde." Davis met the daughters of "General Huntington," one of whom, Nancy, also studied with Miss Hyde, and reported that a new local jewelry business, Coit & Mansfield, had been robbed. In her letter of October 25, 1815, she mentioned needing a new bonnet, as Miss Hyde's school moved from her home to a local meeting house. On November 11, 1815, she wrote that she had heard of her brother-in-law's return from a seafaring voyage, and inquired whether he had been caught up in a coastal storm. She mentioned that she was in the process of drawing maps of America and Europe, and had received a certificate from her instructor; she also reported that she had paid a "quarter of a dollar" to have a tooth extracted.