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Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Passes on news of friends and family. Mentions difficulties finding white women to teach at her school for African Americans.
Date:
1908-03-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Desires exclusive control over hiring teachers at her school. Discusses having to fire a teacher because she was African American. Does not believe she can withdraw from managing the school.
Date:
1910-09-27
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Discusses conflicts with James Edgerton, whom the trustees had brought on as a business manager of the Schofield School. Feels that she is being ignored in her role as General Manager. Includes a list of expenditures and other financial information from the school.
Date:
1911-06-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Written on the stationery of the Shamrock Hotel. Discusses her travels. Speaks about visiting men in jail and encouraging them to do right.
Date:
1912-12-13
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Discusses putting money in a bank account for Jenkins's young daughter Mary. Discusses the history of the Philadelphia Saving Trust Fund.
Date:
1912-03-13
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
The Original Papers of Manumission by the Monthly Meetings Composing the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia
Title:
The Original Papers of Manumission by the Monthly Meetings Composing the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia
Description:
The original papers of manumission from the Quarterly Meeting of Philadelphia. Recorded by Abington, Exeter, Gwynedd, Haverford, Philadelphia, Northern District, and Southern District Monthly Meetings. Provides the name of their Meeting and names of their slaves.
Date:
1772 - 1790
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Alfred W. Nicholson letter to Mary Ash Jenkins; Matilda A. Evans letter to Alfred W. Nicholson
Title:
Alfred W. Nicholson letter to Mary Ash Jenkins; Matilda A. Evans letter to Alfred W. Nicholson
Description:
Alfred W. Nicholson was an educator and president of Bettis Academy for African Americans. Dr. Matilda A. Evans was the first African-American woman certified to practice medicine in South Carolina and advocated for improved healthcare of African Americans. Both Nicholson and Evans were students of Martha Schofield at the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in South Carolina. Mary Ash Jenkins was Martha Schofield's niece. Evans wants Nicholson to provide biographical material for and participate in the book she is writing about Schofield. Nicholson encloses the letter from Evans and says he will not participate in writing Schofield's biography unless explicitly asked by Jenkins.
Date:
1916-04-20 - 1916-04-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letter from Joseph Morris Evans to "Art," 2005 March 26
Title:
Letter from Joseph Morris Evans to "Art, 2005 March 26
Date:
2005-03-26
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers

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