Box 4
Container
Contains 13 Results:
Minnesota, 1884
File — Box: 4, Volume: 1
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school during the winter, worked on the family farm, attended Pillsbury Academy in Owatonna, and resumed teaching in November.
2 January--"Our lives are books. Each day a page is written, good or evil .... Perhaps it [this diary] will not be kept as diaries commonly are but I shall try to use it in the way it will be most beneficial. I want to record here the things that I need to remember or...
Dates:
1884
Minnesota, 1885
File — Box: 4, Volume: 2
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school and between terms attended Pillsbury Academy for teachers in Owatonna and worked at odd jobs.
20 November--"Sent for a Microscope .... This is a humble beginning in microcosopy but I intend to get a higher priced instrument if I get so that I can afford it. I have longed and wished and hoped for a microscope for years and dreamed of the pleasure and instruction it would afford."
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Dates:
1885
Minnesota, South Dakota, diary 3 | Minnesota, South Dakota, diary 4, 1886
File — Box: 4, Volume: 3-4
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school in Minnesota and went to live with his sister Ida Battin on her homestead in Iroquois, South Dakota. He worked on farms until winter, and secured a job teaching in South Dakota until the spring of 1887.
28 October--"This day I was 24 ys old. Oh I wish! How I do wish it were not so. It makes my heart ache when I think of it. What has been my life and where is it gone .... Where is that...
Dates:
1886
South Dakota, 1887
File — Box: 4, Volume: 5
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school in South Dakota and boarded with his sister Ida Battin.
28 October--"Today ends the first 25 ys of my life and it is a sad thought to me. I have lived a quarter of a century. As I look back over the years that I have lived it seems like ages, as I think of my earlier remembrances .... My aspiration [is] to be a poet, an author, an orator [?], a traveller, a scientist, an artist, a...
Dates:
1887
South Dakota, 1888
File — Box: 4, Volume: 6
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass attended spring term at the University of South Dakota, was a book salesman during the summer and fall, and taught school the latter part of the year.
11 April--"Have about decided on my studies. They are Geology, Eng, Grammar, English Literature Botany and think I will spend about a half an hour each day on drawing. This will give me about all I can possibly do but desire to gain all I can and learn...
Dates:
1888
South Dakota, 1889
File — Box: 4, Volume: 7
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass attended the South Dakota Agricultural College in Brookings, began a herbarium at the college, and returned to teaching school. This diary contains a great deal of shorthand.
8 March--"Do not know how I shall like the school but think I will learn something. I must learn to appreciate these privileges while I have them. Have longed and pined and almost languished to be in school and be getting an...
Dates:
1889
South Dakota, 1889
File — Box: 4, Volume: 8
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
This diary was kept in conjunction with Diary 7. Some entries refer to Professor Orcott and going to the college farm for specimens, indicating Douglass was at South Dakota Agricultural College at the time he kept this journal. He included poetry, philosophy, science, and nature study entries in the journal. The last entry is 30 June 1889.
25 March--"I have for some time wanted a kind of a Journal not to write...
Dates:
1889
South Dakota, Mexico, Missouri, 1890
File — Box: 4, Volume: 9
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass taught school, attended South Dakota Agricultural College at Brookings, prepared a college herbarium, collected plants in Mexico, and worked at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in Saint Louis. This diary is written almost entirely in shorthand.
Dates:
1890
Missouri, diary 10 | Missouri, diary 11, 1891
File — Box: 4, Volume: 10-11
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in Saint Louis as curator of the herbarium.
Dates:
1891
Missouri, South Dakota, 1892
File — Box: 4, Volume: 12
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
Douglass worked at the Missouri Botanical Gardens in Saint Louis, took classes at the South Dakota Agricultural College in Brookings, and taught school in South Dakota. There is extensive use of shorthand in this diary.
16 November--"The board of Regents have been in session at Aberdeen and have outdone their old record. They have removed Profs. Kerr, Aldrich, Orcutt, Lapham .... they say the whole town is...
Dates:
1892