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R. H. Sisson letter to Emily Howland
Title:
R. H. Sisson letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Discusses the "prevailing epidemic of 'flu, '" which had recently come to Rutherford and caused the cancellation of a temperance speech by Ella A. Boole sponsored by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Discusses a speech by Reverend Clees defending Prohibition and a concert by a quartet from Howard University. Contrasts city, town, and country life. Mentions a convalescent listening to a sermon and a concert over radio. Discusses the circulation of correspondence and passes on news of friends/family. Mentions the threat posed by the Inter-County Anti-Prohibition League.
Date:
1922-02-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Signature illegible. The back of the card bears an image of two women in a flower-lined alley during spring in the French Riviera, titled "Flore Artistique."
Date:
1919-09-22
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses a controversy over incorporating one school district in Cayuga County to another. Mentions a plan to award Emily Howland an honorary degree.
Date:
1925-04-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lois M. Otis letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Lois M. Otis letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Lois M. Otis, a Philadelphia botany teacher born in Sherwood, New York. Celebrates the recent passage of women's suffrage in New York state and hopes that the neighboring state of Pennsylvania will follow suit. Recounts celebrating with Agnes Tierney by telephone.
Date:
1917-11-08
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on the steamer "Resolute" by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Comments briefly on Tierney's voyage. The back of the card bears an image of the steamer.
Date:
1922-10-23
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 from Pocono Lake Preserve by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Thanks Howland for a $2 subscription. Discusses visiting relatives in Rhode Island. Discusses a German nurse named Elizabeth Rolten [sp?] who worked to evacuate French children during World War I. Remarks on German interest in Quaker principles, especially the Inner Light.
Date:
1923-09-09
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 by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Comments on Quaker responses to the Interchurch World Movement and the Organic Union and expresses distrust of the groups. Discusses Tierney's cousin Esther Morton Smith and her nephew Charles Wilbur Ufford.
Date:
1919-03-27
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 from Pocono Lake Preserve by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Passes on news of family and friends. Comments on the inaugural Foxhowe lectures organized by Susan P. Wharton at Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. Mentions that Quakers were beginning to turn against the Ku Klux Klan. Reminisces briefly on first meeting Howland and says "The world is more discouraging now than then, isn't it? We thought things were going to be better and better very soon."
Date:
1924-09-08
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 by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses porcelain German coins that Tierney had sent Howland and lays out her itinerary for an upcoming trip to Europe.
Date:
1922-10-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland and Catherine Meredith photograph
Title:
Emily Howland and Catherine Meredith photograph
Description:
Depicts Emily Howland (right) and Catherine Meredith (left) standing in front of an ivy-covered building. The note on the back says that the photo was taken at Wells College commencement by Lillian Richie. The note also says that Meredith was president of the Wells College Suffrage Club.
Date:
1913-11-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edith Pierrepont Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Edith Pierrepont Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Inquires after candidates for a primary school teaching position.
Date:
1903-05-26
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 to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of Emily Howland. Passes on news of friends, family, and neighbors. Tells of presenting Edward Letchworth with a history book.
Date:
1922-09-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department. Tells Howland that she will find the Board of Regents' action on the Sherwood Select School inside a copy of the Department's bulletin which Graves had enclosed.
Date:
1926-02-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Fred V. Lester letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Fred V. Lester letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Fred V. Lester, a superintendent in the New York State Department of Education. Says he had enclosed two letters for Howland implying the Sherwood Select School had support in the state capital.
Date:
1926-01-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses school district boundaries. Asks after the health of Emily Howland and tells Isabel that the board of regents was interested in awarding Emily an honorary degree in October.
Date:
1926-04-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Thanks Isabel for information on Emily and discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Thanks Isabel for her instrumental role in getting Emily to travel to Albany in order to receive an honorary doctorate at the Department's convocation.
Date:
1926-11-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Expresses interest in publishing pictures of Emily Howland in her cap and gown in the Department's journal (Emily had recently been awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University).
Date:
1926-11-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Title:
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Tells Isabel that the Department was interested in honoring Emily at their next university convocation. Asks if it would be possible for her to come and gives details of the event.
Date:
1927-05-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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