Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield; Fannie A. Tudor letter to Mary Taylor Stone

Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She describes going to the theater and seeing Booth, likely Edwin Booth, in Hamlet. She says that she felt Hamlet was more of a comedy than a tragedy. She also discusses some of her other recent activities, including getting several dresses which were likely for her upcoming wedding to Major William Stone. She encloses a letter written to her by Fannie A. Tudor in which she describes plans to go to Wadmalaw Island where she will be mistress of a colored school. Tudor writes that "there is a wide field for usefulness among the freedmen."