This is a page from a school journal kept by Sarah Ann Colt (1808-1829) while she attended the Miss Huntley School in Hartford.  It appears that it was perhaps was begun by Margaret Colt (1806-1823).  Margaret died of tuberculosis in 1823 and her sister, Sarah Ann committed suicide by taking arsenic in 1829.  No reference to Margaret is found in the journal but the writing and disposition of the authors as reflected in the journal entries is evident. That thought to have belonged to Margaret is brightly illustrated throughout.  Sarah's writing consists of poems of death and suffering.
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