On October 2, 1896, she petitioned the faculty at the College of William & Mary to allow her to attend chemistry lectures.
[2] Braithwaite intended to travel to China as a medical missionary after being trained at William & Mary to be a doctor, but this plan was derailed when her petition to attend was denied.
[3] Instead, Braithwaite began her teaching career in 1899 at the Blue Canyon Day School near the Hopi Reservation in Arizona.
[7] Some of her and her family’s papers can be found in the Special Collections Research Center at Earl Gregg Swem Library.
One such paper is a letter from William & Mary Board of Visitors member Thomas Barnes to Braithwaite regarding her petition to attend classes at the College.