Name/Title
Letter about Lona Hazard school, 1998Entry/Object ID
1999.385.1Description
Acc. No. 99.385.1
Subject Category: Schools, private
Date or Period: 1998
Object: Report-letter
Description: 1-page letter, handwritten in black ballpoint pen on black-lined paper, starting with 'Dear Joe'. Origin has been added in a different hand at the top left. Dated at the top right 1/17/98.
Size: L 11 x 8 1/2 inches.
History of Object: Letter from the donor to curatorial assistant Joe Young, describing the Lona Hazard School, a boarding school on Santa Clara for rich children. It states the donor and her brother, Bobby Mathiesen, attended the school because their grandmother, Maude Irene Rose, was the cook. The school was a block long. The children wore uniforms.
Acquired from: Betty Cogliatti (nee Mathiesen)
Date: 7/17/99