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Rosalie De Wolf Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Rosalie De Wolf Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
'Rosa" De Wolf Hopper was Abby's sister-in-law. Expresses concern that Abby and Sally are not receiving her letters. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends. Tells the story of the engagement of Josephine Shaw and Col. Charles Lowell.
Date:
1863-03-11
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She thanks Anna Jackson for her sympathy and says she is doing well but will not be able to go abroad as she had planned.
Date:
1869-1905
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Women's Prison Reform Committee record book
Title:
Women's Prison Reform Committee record book
Description:
Record book of the Women's Prison Reform Committee (New York Chapter), documenting meeting minutes and the Committee's actions. Anna M. Jackson was the Chairman of the Committee. Includes a lists of members' names and addresses.
Date:
1894-1897
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Aaron M. Powell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Aaron M. Powell letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer who helped found the American Purity Alliance. He writes that he has just learned from Mrs. Butler (probably Josephine Butler) about a conference that will be held in Brussels, Belgium, to consider measures in relation to the propagation of syphilis. He hopes that Jackson and her husband will attend the Executive Committee meeting of the American Purity Alliance, and asks if she and Mrs. Lowell (probably Josephine Shaw Lowell) can present an outline regarding legislation on the matter.
Date:
1898-12-18
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Herman C. Kudlich letter to Josephine Shaw Lowell
Title:
Herman C. Kudlich letter to Josephine Shaw Lowell
Description:
Herman C. Kudlich was a New York City Magistrate; Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. Kudlich informs Lowell that he will be taking some time off to go to New England and study the "probation system of Massachusetts." He asks for any information that she has on the system as well as the "amendments to the proposed charter on the subject" as submitted by the Women's Prison Association.
Date:
1897-01-29
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Prison Reform Committee record book
Title:
Prison Reform Committee record book
Description:
Record book of the Women's Prison Reform Committee (New York Chapter), primarily documenting the Committee's actions and petitions to police/prison administrators. Anna M. Jackson was the Chairman of the Committee. Includes a list of members' names and addresses.
Date:
1897-1907
Collection:
Branson-Jackson 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 the death of John Stickney. Passes on news of friends and family, including Anna Greene, Cornelia Hancock, and Mary Reed. Discusses a speech by Ellen Martin Henrotin on federating women's clubs and one by Josephine Shaw Lowell on arbitration. Comments on the "handicapping" effect of women's clothing.
Date:
1895-03-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She insists Mariana Wright Chapman to meet with a Mrs. Curtis and hear what she has to say.
Date:
1893-11-25
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Josephine Shaw Lowell letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She invites Mariana Chapman Wright to attend a meeting discussing a new law that will allow the New York police board to appoint "matrons" to station houses.
Date:
1890-03-06
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Margaret Dye Ellis letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Margaret Dye Ellis letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Margaret Dye Ellis was a temperance activist who served as superintendent of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's department of legislation. Asks Jackson to extend an invitation for an upcoming meeting to Mrs. Lowell (probably Josephine Shaw Lowell), noting Lowell's influence over the press.
Date:
1903-04-15
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
George Miller Sternberg letter to Josephine Shaw Lowell
Title:
George Miller Sternberg letter to Josephine Shaw Lowell
Description:
George Miller Sternberg served as the 18th U.S. Army Surgeon General. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a prominent social reformer. Promises to distribute unspecified documents once he receives them.
Date:
1902-03-10
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College