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2019.006.0010Scope and Content
This is a letter from Emma at the Young Ladies Seminary in Benicia to her cousin at the California Military Academy in Oakland. The letter is on YLS stationary. She is very interested in getting back a paper of hers that he has. Besides this, she talks about her family, going home at their next vacation, activities at her school, her father's law suit, etc. One important thing that she mentions is the death of the school's head, Mrs. M. Atkins Lynch, and she encloses her obituary. Her cousin is Mr. William H. Sharp of The Dalles Oregon.
I Believe this to be a letter from Emma Rhoda Sharp Wood (1867 - 1943) from Castoria, San Joaquin, CA. in the 1880 census. Her parents are Peter George Sharp and Elizabeth A. Wood from Ohio. She is writing to her cousin William Henry Sharp (1863 - 1943) who was at school at the California Military Academy in Oakland but living in The Dalles, Oregon at the time. His father was Phillip Thomas Sharp. Peter and Phillip plus another brother came to California in 04/1849 as part of a mining company for the Gold Rush. Emma's older sister Sophia Wood Sharp (1865 - 1903) was also a student at the YLS.Collection
Benicia School Collection
