Julia Henrietta Jones letter to Laura Boardman Lane

00-2023-37-0

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Identifier: 00-2023-37-0

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Content Description

Letter from Julia Henrietta Jones to Laura Boardman Lane offering excuses for not writing sooner. Jones details a doctor’s success in treating Mary Deming, also a former Female Academy student, who would die the following month.

After providing news of other local friends, Jones copied an excerpt from a letter written by her brother, William Edwin Jones, who had also attended the Litchfield Female Academy. “Caroline [his wife- Caroline Ogden Jones] did intende to write you about this time but the transactions of to day will prevent_ She took it into her head this morning to present me with twins a boy and a girl the boy weighing 6 ½ lbs the girl 5 ½ total 12 and of course I must communicate such important intelligence at once” Jones inserted a comment in the middle of the quote, saying that Caroline’s sister, “…who detests babies as much as I do tells me to say that they are the prettiest she ever saw.”

Dates

Creation: 1847-03-31

Creator

Jones, Julia Henrietta (1805-1851) (Person)

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Biographical / Historical

Julia Henrietta Jones was the daughter of Isaac and Tabitha Thomas Jones. Her father served as pastor for the Western Episcopal Society's West Church in Bantam, a borough of Litchfield, from 1811 to 1826. She received her formal education at Sarah Pierce's Female Academy from 1821-1823. After completing her studies she served as an assistant teacher at the Litchfield Female Academy for five years. She was appointed Principal after Sarah Pierce retired and John Pierce Brace accepted the position as Principal of the Hartford Female Seminary. She was the first principal of the Rochester Female Academy, and also taught in Geneva, New York and Salem, MA. In the 1840s, she ran a school in Litchfield. Laura Boardman Lane had also attended the Litchfield Female Academy.