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Primary Sources

1. Joseph Holmes at Sixteen, Diary
Selected diary entries from 1849 of a 16-year-old boy attending an academy. He writes about his life at school in Kingston, Massachusetts.

2. Louisa Trumbull at Twelve, Diary
Selected entries from a diary kept by a 12-year-old girl from Worcester, Massachusetts in 1834 and 1835.