Fletcher Family
The Fletcher Family collection includes family correspondence from the period 1826-1903 and photographs from circa 1860-1890. The material comes from the Fletcher Family subseries of the Consuelo Northrop Bailey Papers, which contains family papers collected by Consuelo's mother, Katherine Fletcher Northrop.
The correspondence included in this collection was collected by Ruth Allen Colton Fletcher, Henrietta Smith Fletcher, and Katherine Fletcher. Ruth was born in 1810 or 1811 to Lydia and Lemuel Colton of Sharon, VT. She married Andrew Fletcher in 1839, and lived in Waterville, Belvidere, and then Johnson, VT until her death, circa 1903. Her oldest surviving child was Andrew Craig Fletcher, who married Henrietta Smith in 1869. Henrietta was born in 1845 to Catherine and George Smith of Burke, NY. Katherine Fletcher was born in 1870 to Henrietta and Andrew Craig Fletcher of Jeffersonville, VT. She attended Johnson State Normal School from 1885-1887, graduating in January 1888.
The correspondence describes the experiences of several family members who moved west to New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, and California. The correspondents recount in great detail the work of creating and managing their farms in these new states or territories, and many letters give meticulous lists of the prices of land, grains, stock, and groceries. The families in this correspondence endure a great deal of sickness and deaths and these as well as some accounts of their medical treatments are described in the letters. There are a few letters from Enos Fletcher and Charles Hogan that are from the Civil War, and several letters refer to the War and its effects on their communities. There is an account of the "St. Albans Raid" by Ruth's son Andrew Craig Fletcher, who was working in St. Albans at the time. Katherine Fletcher's correspondence with her family and classmates document her life and studies at Vermont's teacher training institution twenty years into its history as such.
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Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [1886 December 30?]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Rhett's nervous illness.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [between 1885 and 1887]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include the threat of a legal action against Craig and Carrie's illness.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [between 1885 and 1887]
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Craig's successful return home.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, [between 1885 and 1887?] March 18
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- Creator: Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include finishing a cloak for Katherine, entertaining the Sawyers, and Carrie's high marks in grammar.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Willis Hubbard to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 January 9
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- Creator: Hubbard, Willis.
- Description: Topics include a kind of prank that Katherine seems to have played and his desire to terminate their correspondence.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Marion Cornell to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 June 23 and Burton [s.n.] to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 June 24 and Ida Thorp to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 June 25
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- Creator: Cornell, Marion., [s.n.], Burton., Thorp, Ida.
- Description: Topics include their studies and school activities. Three letters from three former pupils in a Cambridge, VT school.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 September 23 and Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie., Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include Carrie's schoolwork and possibly finding another boarding house for Katherine.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 November 14 and Henrietta Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1886 November 14
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie., Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include the end of school before Thanksgiving for Carrie, Henrietta's recent sore throat, plans to make Katie a dress, and the marriage of two young neighbors.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Katherine Fletcher to Henrietta Fletcher\, 1887 January 8 and Katherine Fletcher to Rhett Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Katherine.
- Description: Topics include Rhett's health, advice concerning Rhett's illness from an old nurse, Katherine's studies and poor health, finding money for continued studies and board, the coming B Class exhibition, and a story book for Rhett.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family
Carrie Fletcher to Katherine Fletcher\, 1887 March 5 and [Henrietta Fletcher] to Katherine Fletcher
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- Creator: Fletcher, Carrie., Fletcher, Henrietta.
- Description: Topics include sending Carrie paper, Carrie's school studies, and Henrietta's sewing.
- Parent Collections: Fletcher Family