Riverview Military Academy, Poughkeepsie, NY - ALS written by the staff manageress to a family friend.
Poughkeepsie: December 4, 1899. Ephemera. A five page hand written letter with original pictorial printed letterhead and stamped, franked envelope. Sent by Marjorie, the manager of the 25 staff at the Academy, to 'Nellie'. Marjorie writes about Major Bisbee the School Superintendent and the cadets that attend. Otis Bisbee succeeded the founder Charles Bartlett as head of the Riverview Military Academy in the 1860s. Marjorie describes Bisbee as "hot tempered, very particular, but very just and kind at heart so his wife says..." "I am very fond of Mrs Bisbee who is a very lovely woman... and fullfils (sic) my ideals of what a lovely, gracious womanhood should be..." Marjorie worries about money and it is a constant theme. About the cadets, she says "...nice boys - most of them have more money than they know what to do with, with the agreeable habits engendered by years of waiting in by servants and spoiling by fond mamas..." An interesting insight into the workaday life of a non-academic employee at a private school. (3) 8 x 10.5" cream sheets with pictorial illustration at top, original folds, blue ink, and illustrated envelope from Riverview Academy cut open at one end, canceled stamp. Very good condition. Item #23391
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