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.

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Alice Stone Blackwell card to Emily Howland
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Alice Stone Blackwell card to Emily Howland
Description:
Short poem wishing Howland happy holidays, written by Alice Stone Blackwell, a suffragist and human rights activist. The reverse side features printed quotes by Charles Dickens and Lydia Maria Child.
Date:
1926-1928
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alice Stone Blackwell, a suffragist and human rights activist. Discusses news about her Aunt Nettie and expresses gladness that Howland is a voter. The back of the postcard features an image of the United States Capitol.
Date:
1917-1919
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Short poem wishing Howland a happy Easter, written by Alice Stone Blackwell, a suffragist and human rights activist. The back of the postcard features an image and message related to springtime.
Date:
1900-1929
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Brief greetings to Howland written by Alice Stone Blackwell, a suffragist and human rights activist. The back of the postcard features a Valentine's Day themed image and message.
Date:
1900-1929
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Howland letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Elizabeth Howland letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Says Elizabeth has enclosed her "phiz, an image of her face; asks for one of Emily.
Date:
1848-07-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth L. Comstock letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Elizabeth L. Comstock letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by social reformer Elizabeth L. Comstock shortly before her death. Asks Emily Howland for help finding Comstock's granddaughter Caroline De Greene a job as a governess so she can pay her way through Earlham College. Passes on news of friends and family. Discusses Comstock's recent reading, including "Samantha at the Centennial"; says that the papers Howland had sent her turned her into a suffragist.
Date:
1891-07-26
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Undated fragment from educator Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Praises Maria R. Mann, a young teacher related to Peabody, and advocates for her appointment to a normal school for freedmen. Discusses paying the teacher's salary and the finances of the school.
Date:
1862-1867
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edward Strange portrait
Title:
Edward Strange portrait
Description:
Depicts Edward Strange sitting in a carved wooden chair with a padded seat. Strange was an English protege of Margaret Jones Burleigh and had been confined at Eastern State Penitentiary. He was released because of illness and was sent to Emily Howland's where he died of tuberculosis in 1872.
Date:
1859-1872
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Comstock photograph
Title:
Elizabeth Comstock photograph
Description:
Shows English Quaker minister Elizabeth Comstock standing next to the porch of a house. Photo is ripped.
Date:
1855-1891
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edith Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Edith Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Undated. Accepts an invitation to an event at the Sherwood Select School. Describes a school play Morgan had recently attended.
Date:
1893-1929
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1901-09-15 through 1902-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's visitors, family, and friends; her attendance of reform society meetings, including a large suffrage convention in Washington, D.C.; her financial and legal affairs; and the weather. Also records Howland's trip to Northumberland County, Virginia, where she visited African American schools, and her time visiting friends and attending lectures in Philadelphia.
Date:
1901-1902
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1902-06-11 through 1903-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include meetings of local clubs and reform societies, as well as the health of Howland's friend Mary Reed. Records Howland's time at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1903 convention in New Orleans and her subsequent visit to the Tuskegee Institute with Susan B. Anthony. Also records Howland's visits to several other African American schools in the South, including the Kowaliga School and the Schofield School in Aiken, as well as her attendance of several education conferences in April 1903.
Date:
1902-1903
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1904-07-11 to 1905-04-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's involvement with the Sherwood Select School, her visitors, reminiscences on her earlier life, her travels, the deaths of friends and relatives, and records of the temperature. Also discusses attending several conventions and returning to a school in Virginia that Howland started in the 1860s.
Date:
1904-1905
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
1913 Wanamaker Diary filled out for 1918 by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on (including the diary pages for most of November and December) have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning for a list of the printed contents. Entries chronicle Howland's daily activities, with a focus on her social calls, health, and letters sent and received. They also periodically discuss her involvement with the Sherwood Select School and other causes. Howland's niece Isabel Howland is mentioned often.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Wanamaker Diary filled out by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning and end for a list of the printed contents. Diary entries chronicle Howland's daily activities.
Date:
1920
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Wanamaker Diary filled out by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning and end for a list of the printed contents. Diary entries chronicle Howland's daily activities.
Date:
1921
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
The book primarily contains diary entries by Emily Howland, chronicling her daily life from 1873-03-12 to 1873-08-20. It also includes miscellaneous accounts written in pencil, possibly written by Edward Strange and dated approximately 1871.
Date:
1871-1873
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Primarily contains short diary entries by Emily Howland chronicling her daily activities. Howland filled out the printed spaces for November 19 to December 31 in 1877, filled out the rest of the printed spaces over the course of 1878, and added entries for the last month-and-a-half of 1878 in the back of the book. Includes miscellaneous memoranda and sporadic financial records dating from 1878 to 1884-04-28.
Date:
1877-1878
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1879-01-01 to 1879-12-31 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Includes miscellaneous notes, newspaper clippings, and correspondence (Phebe Wood to Emily Howland, undated; Sidney Ann Taliaferro (Sidney Taliaferro Boyer) to Emily Howland, 1880-01-21; Margaret Jones Burleigh to Emily Howland, 1879-01-01). Written in an Excelsior diary for 1877.
Date:
1879
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Wanamaker Diary filled out by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning and end for a list of the printed contents. Diary entries chronicle Howland's daily activities.
Date:
1922
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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