Emily Howland Family Papers

This collection includes the papers of Emily Howland (1827-1929), a Quaker educator and humanitarian who is particularly remembered for her work with formerly-enslaved African Americans in the South during and after the Civil War. The collection also contains family papers, surnames Howland and Tallcot.

Emily Howland Family Papers collection guide
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Writes to her sister-in-law from Chicago, where Emily has "addressed myself to the Congress and the other interests we find." Asks about the barn and discusses the importance of shingles.
Date:
1883-10-24
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Writes to her sister-in-law. Has gotten her photograph taken. Is taking French lessons. Is with Anna M. Stanton and will ask her to remake her dress.
Date:
1883-12-31
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Written to her sister-in-law while traveling in Europe with her niece, Isabel Howland. Comments on news of friends and family back home, and the people she has met abroad. London is dingy due to bituminous coal burning.
Date:
1884-05-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Addressed to her sister-in-law. Visited the Hospital in Philadelphia where she saw dreadful forms of disease. Invited to go to Swarthmore by Mrs. Magill whom she met at the Women's Club lecture by Julia Ward Howe on "Men's Women and Women's Women." Saw Ella Clement and Florence Kelley.
Date:
1882-01-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Addressed to her sister-in-law. Purchased books for Sidney Taliaferro Boyer's school. Went to the Women's Club Room where she met Florence Kelley and Miss [Graceanna?] Lewis. Mrs. Kingsbury called to see Mary Grew; there is to be a women's suffrage meeting which Mrs. Blake, Mrs. Stanton, and Miss Anthony will attend. Visited the Asylum for the Blind.
Date:
1882-01-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Addressed to her sister-in-law. Regarding travels. Currently traveling with General Wallace.
Date:
1885-05-24
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Written to Howland's sister-in-law. Discusses her time with Mary F. Eastman and Mrs. O'Connor, who reports on her work with the U.S. Census and its classification of married women. Howland is planning to visit St. Augustine, Florida; asks for letters to be forwarded to Booker T. Washington.
Date:
1891-03
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's sister-in-law. Discusses news of family and friends and Howland's activities in Washington.
Date:
1891-03-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Written to her sister-in-law while traveling in Europe with her niece, Isabel Howland. Comments on weather in London, which is cold but sunny. Visited Stoke Poges with Edith and Miss Coffin. The trains are confusing and the roads are good. Visited the grave of poet Thomas Gray. Attended Meeting for Worship at Tottenham Quaker Meeting House, where they met British temperance activist and suffragist Margaret Bright Lucas.
Date:
1884-06-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Gives her sister-in-law news of friends and family. Writes of her niece Isabel Howland's desire not to have her "disease" widely discussed. Discusses courtship, saying that Howland has come to believe women must take the initiative.
Date:
1886-06-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Recounts to her sister in law a string of visitors, including a Mrs. Cheney. Her beloved dog Grant got sick and was euthanized; arrangements to send the dog's brain to Dr. Burt G. Wilder at Cornell. The school at Auburn will receive a new roof. News on area property transactions. Difficulties staffing schools.
Date:
1882-09-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Letter fragment. Written to her sister-in-law Hannah Letchworth Howland. Discusses her recent activities in Massachusetts. Makes multiple references to the death of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mentions meeting abolitionist Ann Bigelow (1813-1989), who recounted aiding fugitive slave Shadrach Minkins.
Date:
1883-02-26
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's sister-in-law. Discusses Howland's activities and her plans to travel south. Mentions delivering a package of periodicals for Alice Blackwell. Discusses visiting her cousin Benjamin Alsop and hearing his side of a family financial dispute. Mentions visiting various people, including Mrs. Hoag, Emma Montgomery, and Dr. Daniel Breed and his daughter Gulielma, an invalid.
Date:
1891-03-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's sister-in-law. Discusses Howland's activities in Washington, including a visit from Dr. Daniel Breed.
Date:
1891-03-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Writes to her sister in law of the health and well-being of various family and friends. Emily is aching, either from too much walking or from malaria.
Date:
1882-09-01
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Tallcot Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Tallcot Howland
Description:
Likely written after 1860. Passes on news of Emily Howland's activities.
Date:
1837-1867
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Tells her sister-in-law that she had received a letter from Emma V. Montgomery in which the latter had requested her help in suggesting a College for a light skinned Black woman from Lynchburg; Emily thought Howard because the young woman was not strong, but thought that Emma would prefer a northern school. Marvels that the return of Cornell's crew (team) received more acclaim than a similar academic achievement, what a "puzzling queer world."
Date:
1885-07-22
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Emily describes for her sister in law Hannah her visit to the Conciergerie where Marie Antoinette and others were held and makes observations about Paris and the Seine.
Date:
1885-07-30
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Emily voices her theories about health to her sister-in-law. Also discusses stocks. An additional page describes a heated discussion at lunch about caste and equality, Emily claims that she is for the latter.
Date:
1885-08-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
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Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Addressed to "My dear friend"; likely to Caroline F. Putnam. Unsigned. Offers the recipient advice on traveling in Europe. Discusses Abraham Keralla, a young Syrian Quaker named staying with Howland who was pursuing a medical education in the U.S. after coming to the country for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Date:
1896-04-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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