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Myra Baker family correspondence from 1882 to 1909, centered on her years teaching at Fisk University and documenting the private racial, educational, religious, and intellectual world surrounding a white woman teaching at one of the nation's historically Black universities during the post Reconstruction era. The 27 letters, approximately 122 manuscript pages, were exchanged among Myra, her father Orlando Harrison Baker, her sisters Joanna, Ada, and Emma, and family friends, several of whom were themselves educators. Orlando was a professor of Latin and Greek, Methodist minister, journalist, and United States diplomat; Joanna Baker taught Greek at Simpson College for three decades. During Myra's Fisk years, the correspondence records her family's reactions to her Black students and acquaintances, including Emma's discussion of Myra's Black friend "Mr. P" and the social consequences she believed an interracial association would entail: "It would take a great deal of courage and grace to face the contempt and prejudice of his professors and fellow students." The letters place that passage among less guarded exchanges about Myra's classes, Black religious education, classical philosophy, women's teaching careers, family relationships, and Orlando Baker's diplomatic posting in Copenhagen. Baker family. Correspondence, 1882 to 1909. 27 autograph letters, approximately 122 manuscript pages, measuring approximately 4½ x 7 to 8½ x 11 inches, written principally to Myra Baker by Orlando Harrison Baker, Joanna "Joe" Baker, Ada Baker, Emma Baker, and family friends, from Iowa, Tennessee, Copenhagen, and other locations. The correspondence begins in 1882 and continues through 1909, with the greatest concentration in 1893. Most of the letters are addressed to Myra. Two 1893 letters from Orlando are written on United States Consulate stationery from Copenhagen, where he served as U.S. consul in 1893 and 1894; letters from Ada dated 1891 and 1909 use Simpson College stationery from Indianola, Iowa. During Myra's period at Fisk University in Nashville, Emma writes about "Mr. P," a Black male friend of Myra's, telling her, "I know Southern prejudice too well. He, if seen with you, and would have to say that you were a teacher in Fisk Uni. Now that would be perfectly shocking to any well-ordered Southern mind." Elsewhere in the same discussion she writes, "It would take a great deal of courage and grace to face the contempt and prejudice of his professors and fellow students." Joanna's correspondence offers a parallel record of women's college teaching. On February 4, 1893, while teaching at Simpson College, she writes, "My class is very ignorant, and I do not know whether I shall be able to get them to understand anything or not." Another letter praises Myra for maintaining the upper hand in her own classes. On November 5, 1893, writing from Indianola, Joanna reports that a friend has taken up "the colored people's S.S. again," explaining that the class meets at the woman's house and that she receives assistance from the YMCA. An 1891 letter from Ada on Simpson College letterhead describes her housemates and asks Myra how she likes teaching and whether her students stare at her. Other letters discuss Greek philosophy and an Iowa educational conference featuring addresses by professors and educators, while correspondence among the sisters repeatedly returns to teaching, study, schools, and intellectual life. Orlando's correspondence is more intimate. In a long letter to Myra he discusses the death of her mother, his efforts to raise his daughters, his understanding of family obligations, and his remarriage to a woman in Copenhagen. Letters from sisters living in Copenhagen describe their lives abroad and invite Myra to teach there. The later correspondence extends the family's story beyond the Fisk period: in the final letter, dated August 6, 1909, Ada reflects on the death of their sister Emma, writing, "How strange it is to think that dear Em.…