A CARD.
Miss Jessie B. Simpson respectfully informs the inhabitants of Wilmington, that she will reopen her school for Young Ladies, about the middle of October. She will give instruction in all the higher branches of the English; also in French, Music, Waxwork & Embroidery.
—Wilmington Advertiser, October 4, 1839.

(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies 1790-1840, by Charles L. Coon, 1915)