1880 – A letter from a young woman attending Mills Seminary, shortly before it was chartered as Mills College, the first woman’s college west of the Rockies
Oakland, California: 1880. Unbound. This eight-page letter was written by Elva C. King at Mills Seminary for Young Women in Oakland, California on May 18th, 1880 to an old school friend with whom she had not corresponed in years. In nice shape. It reads in part: “I supposed..... More