DIARY: Record of her 1887-88 term at Memminger School, Charleston, South Carolina. by Pitcher, Louisa J - 1887: Printed booklet of forms, accomplished by hand.

Charleston, S.C.: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, 1887. Original document. Softcover. Very Good. 24pp. Report-card format, recording Louisa's performance under her teacher, Alice A. Palmer of the Memminger School. Covers school subject, conduct, and attendance for each weekday from October 7, 1887 through March 23, 1888, minus two weeks of Christmas holiday. Each page is signed by the teacher and by Louisa. Laid into printed card covers, as issued. 5.5" x 3.5".

"Memminger Normal School was a vital part of antebellum South Carolina's public education system, and it served as a teaching center for the children of the freedmen during the Era of Reconstruction. The George Peabody Foundation made grants to the school in the 1870s as long as it remained in the hands of capable New Englanders who had opposed secession. By the 1880s Memminger Normal School was again under state sponsorship, and it resumed its original role of training young women, albeit white and middle class, in the art of pedagogy" (Moultrie News, Nov. 8, 2011).