I found a number of young men that used to attend the Wayland Seminary that had the greatest regard for the girls, and I could not but notice them in this respect and their kind acts while there, although I was not in the same classes with them, but I never saw them make any difference while I was in school.  I always found good friends among them and I never saw a young man meet one of the young ladies but they lifted their hats, and that made the people of Washington, D. C., always speak of it in the kindest terms.  One never loses anything in this way, and their virtues are greater than gold.

When the weather was very bad one day and I was coming from school and a young man saw me fall down, he came to help me home and I felt very grateful and I feel that wherever that young man shall go he will have favor in the eyes of all, and God will be his leader for he has made a good beginning.

School Life

While at the Harper’s Ferry school I found the loveliest teachers that ever were in a school.  Professor Brackett, the head of the school, is a fine gentleman, and his wife, Mrs. W. Brackett, is a lovely lady and she is one of the finest teachers that ever lived.  She has three nice children, two of them are girls and one boy, who is a young man by this time, for I have not seen him since he went to Maine to attend school, which is the Bates’.  It is a fine school of Latin, and a number of the students went to that same school.

Mr. W. P. Curtis was one of the professors.  He was my Sunday-school teacher and he was fine.

Mr. D. M. Wilson was a dear professor, whom we loved.  Miss Caroline Franklin was a lovely teacher and we all loved her.  Miss C. Brackett was one of the lovely teachers, and one whom every one of the other teachers loved, for she was one of the finest readers that ever lived, let it be man or woman.  They used to have her read nearly every afternoon when the school was out, and sometimes they would call to Professor Curtis to read to the school.  He was a very good reader, but Miss C. L. Franklin was the grand trainer of the whole school.  They had a grand reading circle there at nights for the rich of the Ferry, and she was the one to do the fine reading.  All of the noble people of the place loved her and she will ever be loved and remembered by all who knew her.  She is now in Washington, D. C., teaching, and the people have learned to love her as we did.  I do not think that any one could help loving her for her love and fidelity to the race which she represents.

Miss C. L. Franklin’s mother, who is a lovely woman whom we all love as a mother, for she had many of the students at her house to board, like Mrs. William Lovett, and she was so very kind to all of them that she will be remembered by us all, for we love those in our school life that would say a kind word to us.  It was to help us along in our daily toil.