Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers

Family papers of Mariana Wright Chapman. Includes her correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. 

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25th Annual Convention Program of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Title:
25th Annual Convention Program of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Description:
Program that lists session details for the 25th Annual Convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Mariana Wright Chapman is listed as President of the Brooklyn Woman's Suffrage Association.
Date:
1893
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
A Message from the Years: To the Officers and Members of the Brooklyn Woman's Club
Title:
A Message from the Years: To the Officers and Members of the Brooklyn Woman's Club
Description:
Tribute poem to the Brooklyn Woman's Club, written by author Anna Olcott Commelin.
Date:
1888-1906
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Discusses an upcoming Quaker conference to be held at Swarthmore.
Date:
1896-06-09
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Discusses articles about Mrs. Johnson being shared with other periodicals; mentions the English Parliament.
Date:
1897-07-10
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. She apologizes for not including a fuller account of the anniversary of the Brooklyn Woman's Club in the Woman's Journal. Discusses the Journal's work with the suffrage movement and her belief that the argument of the "Antis" in Albany is feeble and inconsistent.
Date:
1899-03-06
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Discusses a letter that was signed by multiple women to be printed in the Women's Journal.
Date:
1897-07-27
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Extends regrets that he was unable to attend the Prison Reform Committee meeting.
Date:
1891-04-21
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Includes information about the upcoming National Purity Congress. Invites Mariana Wright Chapman to give a speech at the congress on the topic of "Equal Suffrage as Related to the Legal Aspects of the Purity Movement." Mentions a possible upcoming conference in New York in December and invites Mariana Wright Chapman to also give the same speech there. Apologizes for declining an invitation and discusses the upcoming Canada Conference Committee meeting.
Date:
1895-07-30
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Encourages Mariana Wright Chapman, as well as Louisa Stabler, to go to an event. Discusses and encloses a description of a "very objectionable bill which has been sent to Albany by the so called 'Law & Order Society' of this City." Adds that "Our Alliance has already protested against its passage" (enclosure no longer attached).
Date:
1896-04-13
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He asks Mariana Wright Chapman to present on prison reform to the "Half Year Meeting" and "Philanthropic Session."
Date:
1897-10-24
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for her paper on the Peace Movement in Europe and the United States which she has provided to the Half Yearly Meeting Philanthropic Session.
Date:
1897-11-08
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He asks Mariana Wright Chapman to speak on the subject of "The New Militarism and Purity" at the annual meeting of the American Purity Alliance. He specifically asks that she talk about "the women of the native race" and "equality of rights for women in general." He adds that if she is unavailable on the day he listed for the meeting, then they may be able to reschedule to accommodate her.
Date:
1898-12-15
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Dictated letter. Blackwell is compiling a memoir about her mother, Lucy Stone. Thanks Chapman for forwarding a letter written by Stone. Describes the materials being used for the memoir.
Date:
1893-11-22
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Apologizes for accidentally printing someone else's article rather than an article by Chapman on the same subject.
Date:
1895-05-17
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. She regrets to inform Chapman that her mother, Lucy Stone, is too ill to accept her invitation and too ill for Blackwell to leave her.
Date:
1893-09-25
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. She discusses Helen Kendrick Johnson's book, Woman and the Republic, expressing that she feels "pretty wrathful" about the book's contents and points out its factual inaccuracies. Refers to a "confidential" message Chapman has sent her about the Meridian Club.
Date:
1897-07
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Charles Rufus Skinner letter to Jessie J. Cassidy
Title:
Charles Rufus Skinner letter to Jessie J. Cassidy
Description:
Charles Rufus Skinner was was a politician who served as superintendent of the Department of Public Education of the State of New York and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reply to a letter from Jessie J. Cassidy, a writer and suffragist, regarding "the township bill." He discusses the issues surrounding women voting in school board elections and expresses his support for their right to vote.
Date:
1897-06-28
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Condolence letters to the family of Mariana W. Chapman
Title:
Condolence letters to the family of Mariana W. Chapman
Description:
Condolence letters from friends and relatives regarding Mariana W. Chapman's recent death. Includes one newspaper obituary clipping. The letters beginning on pages 28 and 35 are in reference to Chapman's mother Mary Willets Wright, who died in 1904.
Date:
1904-1907
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Carrie Chapman Catt letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Carrie Chapman Catt letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Cannot stay at Heronwood for long due to her work load. Her baggage at Chautauqua has gone astray.
Date:
1898-07-26
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Carrie Chapman Catt letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Carrie Chapman Catt letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She is too busy to stay with Mariana Wright Chapman. Hopes to be at the Richmond and Buffalo Conventions.
Date:
1880-1905
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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