BOX II. 9 – Biographical - education

Folder 9 of 18

9 items

Newspaper clipping and class listing of Dix’s graduating class at Clarksville Academy, Clarksville, TN.

1. “Miss Lizzie Meriwether left this week for Botetourt Springs, Va., where she will enter Hollins’ Institute for a six month’s review” [1878, source unknown, but probably The Tobacco Leaf]

2. “Book Of Alumnae Of The Clarksville Academy, Class Of 1856-1902.” The Corn Sheller, The Montgomery County Historical Society Newsletter, v. 18 (8) August 1995 [reprint of book]

3. Letter from Dix to a Mr. Turner who sent Dix information about Founders Day at Hollins which Dix attended. Turner asks in a letter to Dix in which room she lived while at Hollins Institute. March 10, 1930 (photo copy).

4. Letter from Dix to Matty Cooke, a teacher at Hollins Institute while Dix was there. Dix is pleased and flattered and it “warms the cockles” of her heart that he remembers her “out of all the army of girls who have marched through the doors of Hollins since I was there.” February, 22, 1930 (photo copy).

5. “Intimate Glimpses of the Senior Class.” Dear Miss Dix letters collected during the year of 1929-30 for the Hollins’ yearbook Spinster from a certain group of Hollins students—the Senior Class. Sixty-two short paragraphs presented to Dix while attending Commencement and showing off her medal she won in the 1879 for the best composition. A 200 word thank you from Dix is included. February 15, 1930 (photo copy).

6. “In Memoriam, The True Dorothy Dix…A Tribute.” Hollins Alumnae Magazine, Spring 1952 (photo copy).

7. Announcement that former Hollins girl, Mrs. E.M. Gilmer, nee Miss Lizzie Mereweather, accepted a position on the editorial staff of the New Orleans Picayune. THE SEMI-ANNUAL, February 1898 [Hollins publication] (photo copy).

8. Listing of the MEDALISTS in the Hollins catalog for the academic year 1878-79. Miss Lizzie Meriwether, Clarksville, Tenn., as the winner of the English Composition. Hollins Catalog, 1878-79 (photo copy).

9. “A Shoulder to Weep On,” by Dorothy Dix. One page article by Dix with a foreword by the editor of Hollins Alumnae Magazine, Winter issue, 1947-48, vol. XXI, NO.2 (photocopy).
 

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