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Edward Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Edward Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Written from the University of Pennsylvania. Discusses circulation of a letter by Martha Schofield published in the New York Herald Tribune (15 November 1876) describing the violence southern whites committed on African Americans. Discusses politics; alludes to the contested election of 1876.
Date:
1876-12-13
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Written by "Sarah." Briefly reminisces about Harmon Hutton. Reflects on life at a boarding house. Discusses the logistics of a money order. Says she is glad Schofield's lungs have been healthy. Reminisces on a trip to the South she and Lissy Bunting took last winter. Discusses her invalid friend Mary Field. Mentions Henry Ward Beecher.
Date:
1876-04-03
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Description:
Esther Fussell Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' mother. Lewis proposes a course of study for her sister Elizabeth Lewis involving botany and astronomy that will allow her to learn while staying to help at home. She mentions that her friend Getty (Gertrude Kimber Burleigh, wife of Charles C. Burleigh) in is now living in Massachusetts, notes the sectional tensions between the North and the South, and describes tensions in the Society of Friends around abolitionism that prevented her uncle Bartholomew Fussell from being appointed clerk of a Meeting out of fear he would cause divisions. Closes with a discussion of a school for black children in York, the recent fair and her family's pricing of goods, her unhappiness about children being exposed to ideas about violence, some of the girls at her school, and a scientific lecture she attended recently on the origin and condition of the Arabs.
Date:
1842-12-26
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter draft to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter draft to Isabel Howland
Description:
Draft of a letter written, possibly to Howland's niece Isabel, while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with reformer Mary F. Eastman; for the finished letter, see A00186172. Discusses a spontaneous detour to Beaufort, South Carolina, where they saw a funeral led by the Vanderbilt Benevolent Association. Relates a conversation with the mayor of Beaufort about state politics and the local African American population. Mentions a friendly interaction between a Union and Confederate veteran and the fading of the "hating spirit" of sectional tensions. Discusses visiting Elizabeth Botume, head of an African American school, and her plans to retire. Mentions meeting Robert Smalls (mistakenly called Samuel Smalls). Relates the life-story of their carriage driver, whose wife had died of cancer. Mentions Miss Eastman's suffrage proselytization. Describes their time in Savannah, Georgia, where they visited the Chatham Academy and a school for African Americans. Asks the recipient to publish extracts of the letter.
Date:
1891-04-10
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 Howland's sister-in-law. Remarks on visiting Chattanooga, Tennessee, and the nearby Lookout Mountain. Comments on visiting Roanoke and the effect of "Northern capital" on it. Describes the forests of the Shenandoah Valley and her visit to Natural Bridge.
Date:
1891-05-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written, possibly to Howland's niece Isabel, while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with reformer Mary F. Eastman; see A00186171 for a draft. Discusses a spontaneous detour to Beaufort, South Carolina, where they saw a funeral led by the Vanderbilt Benevolent Association. Relates a conversation with the mayor of Beaufort about state politics and the local African American population. Mentions a friendly interaction between a Union and Confederate veteran and the fading of the "hating spirit" of sectional tensions. Discusses visiting Elizabeth Botume, head of an African American school, and her plans to retire. Mentions meeting Robert Smalls (mistakenly called Samuel Smalls). Relates the life-story of their carriage driver, whose wife had died of cancer. Mentions Miss Eastman's suffrage proselytization. Describes their time in Savannah, Georgia, where they visited the Chatham Academy and a school for African Americans.
Date:
1891-04-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on Tuskegee Institute letterhead by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Wishes Howland a happy 100th birthday. Discusses African American educator Joseph Winthrop Holley and the Georgia Normal and Agricultural College in Albany, Georgia, at length. Also discusses the Hazard family's support for the school. Remarks on the prejudice of whites in Albany and in the North; comments on segregation in Philadelphia. Reminisces on visiting African American schools with Howland in 1903. Expresses doubt about the capabilities of many African Americans. Briefly discusses speaking at the Tuskegee Institute.
Date:
1927-11-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
W.A. Helsell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
W.A. Helsell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Responds to a letter by Martha Schofield published in the New York Herald Tribune (15 November 1876) describing the violence southern whites committed on African Americans. Asks Schofield to confirm the facts given in the letter "purporting" to be from her. Says that Northeners have a difficult time understanding conditions in the South.
Date:
1876-12-11
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College