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Emily Howland letter draft to Frank Pierrepont Graves
Title:
Emily Howland letter draft to Frank Pierrepont Graves
Description:
Written to Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department. Thanks Graves for inviting her to receive an honorary doctorate, but declines on account of the travel required and her advanced age. Written on the back of a short typed note from H. J. Harby of Sumter, South Carolina, to the Lowry Institute and Industrial School of Mayesville, discussing a mortgage.
Date:
1926
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland headstone photograph
Title:
Emily Howland headstone photograph
Description:
Depicts Emily Howland's gravestone, which bears the following inscription: "Emily Howland / November 20, 1827 / June 29, 1929 // She wished to have these / words upon her stone / I strove to realize / myself and to serve // purposes nobly fulfilled." A note on the back describes the location of the gravestone.
Date:
1967-08
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland record of gifts and loans
Title:
Emily Howland record of gifts and loans
Description:
Record of gifts and loans of money without interest with little prospect of return. Includes money given to individuals, donations to schools and reform/ charitable organizations, subscriptions to periodicals, and expenses from the Sherwood Select School. Significant funds are recorded as given to African American schools, women's suffrage organizations, African American individuals (Novella M. Nelson, Sidney Taliaferro Boyer and family, etc.), and teachers. Blank pages not scanned.
Date:
1885-1909
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily and Slocum Howland portrait with dog
Title:
Emily and Slocum Howland portrait with dog
Description:
Taken by Ryder Studio in Syracuse, New York. Depicts Emily Howland, her father Slocum Howland, and the family dog Grant. Emily stands, while Slocum and Grant sit on chairs. A note on the back of the photograph mistakenly labels Slocum as his son Benjamin.
Date:
1861-1881
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Howland family portrait
Title:
Howland family portrait
Description:
Depicts six members of the Howland family in front of a house with a dog. Standing, left to right: Clarence Howland (1861-1933), Isabel Howland (1859-1942), Emily Howland (1827-1929). Sitting, left to right: Caroline Mauldin Howland (1871-1955), Louise Howland (1907-1978), and one of Clarence Howland's sisters. Also includes a note questioning whether the woman in the middle of the back row was Isabel Howland.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Emily Howland was an abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and suffragist. She discusses the difficulties of appealing to politicians who live far away about the suffragist cause. She also lets Chapman know that she will not be able to make the convention in Des Moines.
Date:
1896-12-28
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written from Camp Casey in Arlington, a contraband camp ("contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines). Apologizes for having missed seeing Abby when she was in Washington. Talks about Miss Maria R. Mann and her struggle to gain permission to go to Savannah and organize schools and relief for freedmen. Asks if Abby can use her influence to help Miss Mann.
Date:
1865-02-08
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written from the Washington Contraband Camp. "Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines. Has copied a letter from General Martindale regarding a situation with Dr. Breed being insubordinate (written on the last page). Discusses the impact of the letter upon Dr. and Mrs. Breed, with whom she had been staying.
Date:
1863-03-30
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written from the Washington Contraband Camp. "Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines. Provides more information about the situation with Dr. Breed.
Date:
1863-04-07
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written from the Washington Contraband Camp ("Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines). Further updates on the situation with Dr. Breed. Says she has enclosed a letter from a contraband woman for her husband in the hope that Abby will have success getting it to him.
Date:
1863-04-10
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. John Stearns Jr. letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Dr. John Stearns Jr. letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Gibbons and Stearns met during the Civil War while working at an army hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Written from Fort Richardson. Mentions an investigation of educator Maria R. Mann. Briefly discusses Emily Howland, who lived nearby and took an interest in one of his African-American patients, and gives a brief overview of his activities.
Date:
1865-01-14
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Description:
Typescript of an unsent letter from Emily Howland to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, an Indian social reformer and women's rights activist. Offers a brief sketch of Howland's early life as an abolitionist. Discusses her father Slocum Howland, her grandfather Joseph Tallcot, and one of her early teachers, likely Susannah Marriott. Explains the institution of slavery in the antebellum United States and the opposing abolitionist movement. Briefly discusses participating in the Underground Railroad. Discusses the establishment of the Miner School in Washington, D.C., and Howland's time teaching there. Relates an instance of Howland's students being harrassed by a gang of white men (for which see also A00186547). For one of Howland's other unfinished drafts of this story, see A00186549.
Date:
1888-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria M. Morgan letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Maria M. Morgan letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Morgan discusses the memoir written about Gibbons's deceased son William. Morgan also talks of her cousin Emily Howland and mentions the needs of "colored people" in Washington.
Date:
1860-1865
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to her parents
Title:
Emily Howland letter to her parents
Description:
Fragment. Written while Emily Howand was working with African-American refugees in Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia. Discusses an unnamed friend of Howland's whom a superintendent had ordered arrested, perhaps J. R. Johnson. Mentions that Howland had acquired a photograph for a freedman called Uncle Moses.
Date:
(inferred) 1863 - (inferred) 1867
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Slocum Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Slocum Howland
Description:
Fragment of a letter written by Emily Howland from a steamer on the Potomac, likely to her father Slocum Howland on June 10, 1866. Discusses a piece of property in Northumberland County, Virginia, that Emily was interested in buying and informs her father about the surrounding area.
Date:
1866-06-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter (published)
Title:
Emily Howland letter (published)
Description:
Letter written from Rome by Emily Howland and published in a local paper, likely the Auburn Journal. Describes sightseeing in Rome and speaking with other English-speaking travelers there. Also comments on Roman politics with regard to the unification of Italy, the city's "great extremes of wealth and poverty, and the treatment of animals.
Date:
1885-01-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter (published)
Title:
Emily Howland letter (published)
Description:
Letter written from Rome by Emily Howland and published in a local paper, likely the Auburn Journal. Describes sightseeing in Rome, especially the forum, and relates a long lecture on ancient Rome.
Date:
1885-01-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam; Caroline F. Putnam letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam; Caroline F. Putnam letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Fragments written by Emily Howland and Caroline F. Putnam, likely to each other. Howland's letter discusses Charles Perkins, who had recently written a short biography of Gerrit Smith. Putnam's letter discusses mutual acquaintances.
Date:
1912
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Undated fragment, likely to Caroline F. Putnam. Discusses placing portraits of Mr. Nash and others in Howland and the recipient's schools in Northumberland County, Virginia, in recognition of their work for the area.
Date:
(inferred) 1880 - (inferred) 1917
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Fragment, possibly to Caroline F. Putnam. Asks if the recipient has a particular photograph of Howland because she wanted to make copies of it (see A00186815 for the photograph). Discusses mutual friends and comments on the weather.
Date:
(inferred) 1905 - (inferred) 1917
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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