urn:taro:utexas.cah.00855 A Guide to the Bacon Academy Collection, 1803-1930 Original EAD encoding by Jessi Fishman according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2008 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Bacon Academy Bacon Academy Collection 1803-1930 Materials are written in English. OCLC number 22901927 1 volume Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Papers concerning Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut, include photostats of two letters from Moses Austin. Scope and Contents

Papers concerning Bacon Academy in Colchester, Connecticut, include photostats of two letters from Moses Austin, one to Daniel Phelps in 1803 arranging for him to put Stephen F. Austin in school and maintain him there, the second to Stephen in 1804 exhorting him in regard to his education and personal relations, as well as two 1930 letters from the clerk of the school and copies of two printed articles dealing with the history of the academy.

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Index Terms Subjects Austin, Moses, 1761-1821. Austin, Stephen F. (Stephen Fuller), 1793-1836. Bacon Academy (Colchester, Conn.)--Archives. Education--History--19th century--Sources. Colchester (Conn.)--History--Sources. Preferred Citation

Bacon Academy Collection, 1803-1930, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2Q417 Collection, 1803-1930