MABEL and NANCY MULLINS Correspondence

Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 09: BIOGRAPHY
Mabel Lewis Mullins (1906-2004) Student, 1919-1922
Nancy Elizabeth Mullins (1904-1984) Student. 1919
Correspondence 1919-1921

Minnie Callahan, Mabel Mullins, Shirley Sizemore, Virginia Burton…. [mccullough_II_46a.jpg]

TAGS: Mabel Mullins correspondence, Nancy Mullins correspondence, Partridge Kentucky, Katherine Pettit, Ethel de Long Zande, school records, school invoices, Lincoln Memorial University, Berea College, John Mullins Martin, Lucy Braun, Ruth B. Gaines

MABEL and NANCY MULLINS Correspondence

SUMMARIES

[Note: Letters from PMSS staff in the PMSS Collections are carbon copies, typewritten, unsigned, and meant for the Office files. The original signed documents were sent to the correspondents. The initials at the bottom left of most PMSS letters indicate the writer (along with initials of the typist). For example, “EZ” are the initials for Ethel de Long Zande and “KP” refers to Katherine Pettit.

1919

001 “Pine Mountain Settlement School RECORD SHEET
Name: Mullins, Mabel
Parents: Dave and Jane Mullins
Post Office: Partridge, Letcher County
Bills sent to: Mr. Dave Mullins
Entered at request of: Miss Pettit
Remarks: Left 1922 to go to Berea
Date of Birth: June 26, 1906
Date of Entrance: Jan. 6, 1919, Aug. 1920, Aug. 1921, Aug. 1922
Date of Leaving: May 2, 1919, May 1920, May 1921, May 1922, Sept. 11, 1922.”

SCHOOL RECORD [“No report”]
HEALTH RECORD …..

002 April 1, 1919. Invoice to: “Mr. David Mullins, Dr.,” listing tuition and book fees for “Nancy” for 4 months and “Mabel” for 3 months. Total amount due; $9.45.

003 October 1, 1919. Invoice to: Mr. David Mullins, Dr., listing tuition and book fees for “Mabel” for two months and school supplies. Total due: $2.93 “Nancy has a credit to her account for her work this summer, and we would like to know whether you wish this to apply to her tuition.”

004 October 17, 1919. To Miss V.W. Buffum, Lincoln Memorial University, Herrogate, Tenn. from EZ [Ethel Zande], asking if Nancy Mullins could be admitted to Lincoln Memorial.

Our Nancy Mullins is anxious to be doing first-year High School work, which we cannot offer her just now….. Nancy is a very bright girl, and we are all agreed that she should get ahead now as fast as she can….

005 October 23, 1919. To Mr. Dave Mullins, Partridge, Ky., from KP [Katherine Pettit], explaining the need for Nancy to be taken to Lincoln Memorial as soon as possible.

“Nancy is way ahead of her class, so much so that she is not getting as much out of school as she should. … [I]f she came at once, she can catch up with her class and they can give her private lessons until she has made up the lost time. … We hate to give up Nancy. She is a splendid girl, very bright, and improving in many ways all the time….

006 October 25, 1919. To Pettit from D.C. Mullins [on letterhead for “D.C. Mullins & Son, General Merchants”],“sending a check for Mabel’s expenses for Sept & Oct. … as to Nancy I think I will take her away at Christmas.”

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008 October 29, 1919. To Mr. Mullins from [unsigned], re-sending the letter about the need to send Nancy to Lincoln Memorial in case he hadn’t received it. The writer praises Lincoln Memorial and writes that Mossie Miniard, a classmate of Nancy’s, is attending Lincoln; and that Chester Blanton, a two-year PMSS student, will enter the school this week.

009 November 1, 1919. Invoice to “Mr. David Mullins, Dr.” for Mabel’s tuition, book fee, and school supplies.

010 December 1, 1919. Invoice to David Mullins from [unsigned] for Mabel’s tuition and book fee.

1921

011 May 3, 1921. To Mr. Mullins, Poor Fork, Ky., from EZ [Zande], enclosing a receipt for his payment and reporting on Mabel:

Mabel has done splendid work with us and I am glad you have decided to have her come back next year. I hope she will tell you her graduating talk, which was most interesting. She was the youngest of her class by four years and had progressed from the third grade through the eighth grade in two and a half years stay at Pine Mountain.

012 October 10, 1921. Invoice to David Mullins for Mabel’s “Monthly fee for September—-$1.35.”

013 November 23, 1921. To “Mr. and Mrs. Mullins” in Partridge, Letcher County, Kentucky, from EZ [Zande], announcing that the School has “changed its system of charging hospital fees for the children. Instead of the monthly charge of fifteen cents…we now charge fifty cents a day for every day the child is sick” at home and sixty cents a day for every day in the school infirmary. The letter goes on to explain why the charge has been made and what is covered.

1922

014 February 13, 1922. Invoice to David Mullins for Mabel, Nov., Dec. and Jan. Total $5.05.
015 April 10, 1922. Invoice to David Mullins for Mabel, Feb., Mar., and April. Total $4.05.

016 May 25, 1922. To Miss Mabel Mullins, Partridge, Kentucky, from KP [Katherine Pettit], who is “anxious” that Mabel attend Berea College next year. She reminds Mabel when Joy Secor, Berea’s Dean of Women, visited PMSS and suggests that Mabel write to Secor soon, as the college is already “overcrowded.” Pettit invites Mabel to PMSS’s 4th of July celebration, at which Dr. Hutchins, President of Berea College will speak. She mentions having just returned from Hindman Settlement School’s celebration of the 20th anniversary of the school.

017 July 10, 1922. To Mrs. Dave Mullins from K. Pettit, informing Mrs. Mullins of the new rates for the next school year for entrance fees, hospital expenses, school supplies and miscellaneous, children under 10, children 10-12, children over 12. Pettit asks whether to save a place for Mabel.

018 July 15, 1922. Typewritten letter to Pettit from Mrs. D.C. Mullins, assuring Pettit that Mabel will return to PMSS in August and all bills will be paid promptly as possible.

019 October 2, 1922. Invoice to Dave Mullins for 2 weeks in Sept. for Mabel, $1.25.

1923

020 January 15, 1923. To Mabel from EZ [Zande], who is “delighted” that Mabel and Becky May will attend camp this summer; asks when Mabel will visit PMSS. Zande has invited Chester Blanton, graduate of Lincoln Memorial University, to visit on the 4th of July.

021 May 29, 1923. To Mabel at Berea (Ky.) College from EZ [Zande], who mentions that Nora Howard and Becky May were chosen to attend scout training camp at Proctor, Ohio, in July. Nora cannot attend, so she is asking Mabel if she is interested in going, paid by a scholarship. “Nancy was over here a few weeks ago, and I was glad to hear about you from her.”

022 May 31, 1923. Handwritten letter to Mrs. Zande from “Mabel Lewis Mullins,” who wishes to attend camp and has asked her mother to send permission to Zande.