Pine Mountain Settlement School
Series 13: Education & Educational Programs
Series 19: Students
EDUCATION Children’s Writing (01, 05) Brit Wilder
Published 2021-06-20 aae
EDUCATION Children’s Writing (01, 05) Brit Wilder
Letter to Margaret Motter, Sept. 1928
History Report, Dec. 1928
TAGS: Brit Wilder, student writing, education, Margaret Motter, Katherine Pettit, history report
TRANSCRIPTION: EDUCATION Children’s Writing (01) Brit Wilder
[NOTE: Transcriptions have been slightly edited, but most misspellings have been kept intact.]
[children_wrtg_001.jpg] Brit Wilder to Miss Margaret Motter, Sept. 4, 1928.
NOTATION at top of page: “Letter written to me September 4, 1928.”
NOTATION at bottom of page: “copied by Margaret Motter”
Dear Miss Motter;
I don’t like school But I like what it makes you bee. I dont feal that this is anything so emportain for any one life as schooling. I have been borned and raised in the Mountains of Kentucky. I havent been in but three states, and still I have a mind to want to see the World. Four year ago one evening after supper, I met Mis pettit, [Katherine Pettit] up at my Uncle’s house where I was working in the [logging] woods, and she said Suny why dont you go to school, I said that I coudnt get in. Mis pettit said come and take sumer school so that you can. I [have] taken the fourth Grade, and now I am stell in school. [Encouragement] is a great thing for young Boys.
Sincerely yours,
Brit Wilder
GALLERY: (01)
TRANSCRIPTION: EDUCATION Children’s Writing (05) Brit Wilder
[children_wrtg_005.jpg] Brit Wilder’s History Report, December 2, 1928.
Brit Wilder
December 2, 1928
History
Pericles riled (ruled?) about two hundred towns. The towns outside the city didn’t have any sayso in the govern of the city. They didn’t like this. The comon people tryed to get the laws so that they would be more just. Just the people living in the city could hold office by lots. Every man that was twenty years of age could hold office only once a year.
Anyone that spoke could be made fun of if he made a mistake by shouting and whistling. There(?) was ten men that took(?) care of the assembly(?). Any thing that was tryed with only judge and jury. Sometimes the jury had as many as a thousand persons. This was the cause of their down fal, not giving the out side city a sayso in the government. This caused jelesy.
GALLERY: (05)
See Also:
BRIT WILDER Staff – Biography
EDUCATION Community and Children’s Writing I – Samples 1-20, 1915-1945
EDUCATION Community and Children’s Writing II – Samples 21-40, 1917-1925
EDUCATION Community and Children’s Writing IIIE – Samples 41-58, 1921-1950
