Letter, Harriett Abbott to Louis S.: a machine readable edition Harriett Abbott Creation of machine-readable version: Nancy Gallagher Additional scanning and OCR: Ben Schacher Conversion to TEI.2-conformant markup: Mary Margaret Welch Additional markup by: Hope Greenberg, Shane Barney ca. 4 kilobytes University of VermontBurlington, Vermont USA

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July/2000 Letter, Harriett Abbott to Louis S. <author>Harriett Abbott</author> <editor/> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p/> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt><publisher/><pubPlace/><date>December 10, 1926</date></publicationStmt> <notesStmt> <note/> </notesStmt> </biblFull> </sourceDesc> </fileDesc><encodingDesc> <projectDesc> <p>Prepared for the University of Vermont Electronic Text Archive.</p> </projectDesc> <editorialDecl> <p>Scanner: Visioneer 6100 (36 bit, 600x1200). Text OCR by Visioneer. </p> <p>Quote marks retained as data. All "M" and "N" dashes converted to two hyphens or one hyphen, respectively. All unambiguous end-of-line hyphens have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line. Some text realigned to left for purposes of readability, at discretion of editors.</p> </editorialDecl> </encodingDesc><profileDesc> <creation> <date>December 10, 1926</date> </creation> <textClass> <keywords scheme="#"> <term>WE'LL LET NANCY DETERMINE THESE</term> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc></teiHeader> <text> <front> <div1> <bibl> <title level="u">Letter, Harriett Abbott to Louis S. December 10, 1926 Eugenics Survey of Vermont Papers, Special Pedigrees The identity of individuals and families investigated by the Eugenics Survey is confidential and cannot be revealed. Psuedonyms are used for individuals investigated. December 10, 1926.
Master Louis S______, Vermont Industrial School, Vergennes, Vt.
My dear Louis:

I received your nice letter which you wrote on November 30. I think you must have had a splendid Thanksgiving dinner. Did you eat all those things?

Who won the Harmonica contest?

I have been pretty busy and so I have not written to you for quite a long time but I hope you will keep on writing since I like very much to get your letters.

It will not be necessary for me to write to Miss Susie Rogers in order to find out how old you are, because I found out just when and where you were born a good many years ago, when I was looking up the births of your little brother and sister. You were born in Massachusetts on March 6, 1914, so you were 12 years old last March.

In what grade are you now in school? I hope that you are in the third or fourth. If you work hard I know that Miss Sessions will help you to get on fast.

The handwriting in your last letter was much better than it was before. I hope that by next June you will be a real good writer because by and by you will want to go out in the world and get a good job, and you can't do that unless you write very nicely.

I hope that you will have a very, very Merry Christmas and have lots of presents and good things to eat.

With best wishes from your friend, [Miss Abbott]

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