The Seminary Budget was published by students of the Hart Female Seminary in Plymouth, Connecticut, during 1853. It includes a story about the kidnapping of daughter from a Vermont family by Native Americans during the onset of the American Revolution, an article about nature and religion, anecdotal biographies, poems, and puzzles. There is a notice at the end of the paper indicating that the school and its classes will be expanded. The contributors include Martha A. Dunbar (ca. 1837- ), Jane E. Sanderson (1839-1916), Martha F. Coe (ca. 1840- ), Ada A. Catlin (ca. 1840- ), Eveline Collins (1837-1909), Ellen E. Barber (1839-1910), Lois A. Clark (ca. 1840- ), and Cornelia A. Comstock (ca. 1834- ).
The Hart Female Seminary was founded in 1853 by Rev. Isaac Warren. It was located in the Storrs House, which had been originally built by Rev. Andrew Storrs, second minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church, between 1764 and 1766. It was later occupied by Mrs. Rev. L. Hart and Rev. E. Lyman. Its location in the center of the village of Plymouth, Connecticut, made it easy to connect with New Haven, Hartford, and New York. It provided instruction to girls on subjects including English, religious and moral studies, French, Latin, chemistry, astronomy, music, and arithmetic, among others. Its president was Henry Terry and its principals were Helen F. Goodwin in 1854 and Jane L. Thomas in 1855. The seminary closed in 1857.