A transcription of a booklet entitled ‘Health’ published by the Society to Encourage Studies at home in 1878. The authors were the Society’s Secretary Anna Eliot Ticknor who worked with Ellen Swallow Richards to produce this tract. The purpose - in their words: These pages are addressed to the Students of the Society to Encourage Studies at Home, to the women living in different parts of the United States, who have joined it for the purposes of home education. Grieved by the amount of ill-health revealed in the correspondence, the Committee resolved to make an appeal in behalf of the laws of health, not only on the usual grounds, but for the sake of the very studies which the Society aims to promote.
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