[Broadside]: Pensacola Academy. The Trustees of the Pensacola Academy having employed Mr. James P. Cunningham to take charge of this Institution, give notice that the Academy will be opened for the reception of Scholars on the Wednesday, the Second day of January next . Dec. 13, 1832

CUNNINGHAM, James P.

Verlag: Pensacola, Florida, 1832

Beschreibung

Broadside with ornamental boarder. Measuring 8" x 9¾". [With] Three-page Autograph Letter Signed by James P. Cunningham, dated December 13, 1832. Two unlined blue quarto sheets with text on three page and the mailing address on the back of final sheet. Both are overall very good with edgewear, several stains and creases from being mailed. An unrecorded broadside for a proposed Pensacola Academy in Pensacola, Florida in 1832 that lists the school's trustees and James P. Cunningham as the sole employee. The broadside, which was included in a letter from Cunningham to his father, notes the school will open on January 2 of the next year and list the various classes and the cost: "Orthography, Reading and Writing $6.00, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography $8,00. ." Cunningham's letter tells of his pleasant and fortunate journey to Pensacola onboard a ship that left nearly 10 days after another boat from New York, but arrived about the same time, due to harsh weather and a near sinking of the first ship. He says was also fortunate to arrived in time to beat out another applicant: "I have today received the approbation of the trustee of the Academy and the leading men in the city who met this morning and made out a handbill stating the Academy wanted to be opened under my superintendence and have ordered 150 copies to be print. What encouragement I shall meet with further it is impossible to decide as I shall be dependent on the tuition as the academy has no funds. The Trustees have agreed however to fix me up a house and will do something more if it is in their power . The expense here are very high. You cannot live here short of $.50 a day but the income in business is proportionally large. ." Three of the four trustee we could find additional information about at the website, Pensapedia. Benjamin D. Wright was the U.S. District of Attorney for the Territory of West Florida and the editor of the *Pensacola Gazette*. French immigrant John Garnier ran a successful boarding house and auction business, Garnier & Barkley Auctioneers, with his son-in-law George W. Barkley, another listed trustee. The only information we could find on the fourth trustee, Samuel Fry, was an abbreviated excerpt noting him as superintendent of the school - directly contradicting Cunningham's comment to his father. No additional information on the success of the proposed school could be found, though we did find the original Act to Incorporation survives at Florida Memory, which list Fray, alongside two different trustees: Joseph Bonifoy and John B. Foster. A rare unrecorded broadside. *OCLC* locates no copies. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 554548

Bibliografische Details

Titel: [Broadside]: Pensacola Academy. The Trustees...

Verlag: Pensacola, Florida

Erscheinungsdatum: 1832

Einband: Unbound

Zustand: Very Good