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Expressed condolences on the death of Susan Newbold Cope.

Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She has just married Major William Stone and they are travelling. She describes their activities in Minneapolis and the people they have visited with. She implores Schofield to write to her about the Schofield School in Aiken, after she returns to it. There is a brief note added to the first page by "H.S."

Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She has just married Major William Stone and they have been travelling. She is thankful for the picture of Schofield and reminisces about their relationship. She describes her and Major Stone's activities in Minneapolis. They will likely go South after Christmas. She asks for news about the Schofield School and everyone there.

Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She has just married Major William Stone and they are travelling. She describes their future travel plans, which includes plans to spend Christmas in Charleston, and they hope that Schofield will come join them there. They still do not know where they are going to settle but are leaning towards Philadelphia or South Carolina. She encloses a letter to her from Margaret Wynne congratulating her on her marriage and sharing news about some teachers in South Carolina.

Mee has been married by a Hmong Christian priest and stands between her attendant, who is a member of the bridegroom's family, and her husband Toua. She now belongs to his clan. Mee is aged 18 and Toua is 16, the usual age for a man to marry., Katrina Thomas's notes: Originally inhabiting the mountainous regions of southern China and northern areas of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, a few Hmong began to emigrate from Laos starting in 1975. Due to devastation and loss during the Vietnam War, an estimated 145, 000 came to the U.S. The first wedding I photograph is Hmong Christian in Minneapolis in1986. Later weddings, photographed in Fresno, CA, retain their animist traditions, heeding the spirits and demons of nature, and honoring ancestors. The couple meet when playing a courtship game of pom pov during a festival held in late December and if a boy and girl like each other, he kidnaps her and sends a message to her family that he wants to marry. In preparing for every wedding four "messengers, two from each family, negotiate her bride price, which is preceded by a tie hand" rite, designed to facilitate a favorable outcome. The wedding itself is feasting and ritual drinking by men, according to many rules, while the bridegroom and best man genuflect constantly to honor living and dead members of both families. As the Hmong have become integrated into mainstream society, many of their marriage customs have disappeared.

Although married in a Christian ceremony, Mee and Toua each have two messengers who negotiated the bride price. Now conducting the final rite, Mee's messengers give an accounting of gifts bestowed on her by her own family, the only belongings she may take to her new home., Katrina Thomas's notes: Originally inhabiting the mountainous regions of southern China and northern areas of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, a few Hmong began to emigrate from Laos starting in 1975. Due to devastation and loss during the Vietnam War, an estimated 145, 000 came to the U.S. The first wedding I photograph is Hmong Christian in Minneapolis in1986. Later weddings, photographed in Fresno, CA, retain their animist traditions, heeding the spirits and demons of nature, and honoring ancestors. The couple meet when playing a courtship game of pom pov during a festival held in late December and if a boy and girl like each other, he kidnaps her and sends a message to her family that he wants to marry. In preparing for every wedding four "messengers, two from each family, negotiate her bride price, which is preceded by a tie hand" rite, designed to facilitate a favorable outcome. The wedding itself is feasting and ritual drinking by men, according to many rules, while the bridegroom and best man genuflect constantly to honor living and dead members of both families. As the Hmong have become integrated into mainstream society, many of their marriage customs have disappeared.

The bridal party poses for a picture. Mee has been married by a Hmong Christian priest and stands between her attendant, a member of the bridegroom's family, and her husband Toua. Mee now belongs to his clan. She is aged 18 and Toua is 16, the usual age for a man to marry. In their homeland the bride is usually older than the bridegroom, having waited till she can safely bear children., Katrina Thomas's notes: Originally inhabiting the mountainous regions of southern China and northern areas of Vietnam, Laos and Thailand, a few Hmong began to emigrate from Laos starting in 1975. Due to devastation and loss during the Vietnam War, an estimated 145, 000 came to the U.S. The first wedding I photograph is Hmong Christian in Minneapolis in1986. Later weddings, photographed in Fresno, CA, retain their animist traditions, heeding the spirits and demons of nature, and honoring ancestors. The couple meet when playing a courtship game of pom pov during a festival held in late December and if a boy and girl like each other, he kidnaps her and sends a message to her family that he wants to marry. In preparing for every wedding four "messengers, two from each family, negotiate her bride price, which is preceded by a tie hand" rite, designed to facilitate a favorable outcome. The wedding itself is feasting and ritual drinking by men, according to many rules, while the bridegroom and best man genuflect constantly to honor living and dead members of both families. As the Hmong have become integrated into mainstream society, many of their marriage customs have disappeared.