April 12, 2024
Archive Letters Katy Noyes Family Abolitionist Slave Teacher
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Archive Letters Katy Noyes Family Abolitionist Slave Teacher This is a great collection of 6 handwritten letters from the family of Catherine “Katy” Noyes. Katy was a teacher for the freed slaves on St Helena Island in South Carolina during the Civil War. We sold most of this collection earlier this year but have just found these letters. They are primarily to her and to Frank Balch, her brother-in-law from her sister and other family members. They are all from during the Civil War and have good content. They are several pages long up to 10 pages for one of them. They say in part: Isn’t it splendid that William is coming home, I was completely surprised for I had no more idea of his coming than you had…A letter came for him last evening from Frank relative to his chances of getting something to do under the Emancipation Bureau which they hope to establish this winter. Please don’t say anything about it for it is so entirely uncertain… Mary Allen understands that Ned Hooper is on Gen Dix’s staff in New York. I should think his friends would rejoice…I’m afraid from your way of speaking that you do not like for yourself the name of Katy, do you? I would you would say, I have by no means set my heart on it… We went down to the Capitol and saw Frank, in the evening we heard Booth in Richelieu… McClellan is beginning to hold up his end
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