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William M. Canby letter to Mary Reed
Title:
William M. Canby letter to Mary Reed
Description:
Extract from a letter from botanist William M. Canby to Mary Reed, likely copied by Reed's friend Emily Howland. Offers advice for a botanical collecting trip in the southern United States.
Date:
1879-02-20
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 Howland's niece from Micco, Florida, while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with her friend Mary F. Eastman. Discusses spending time with a Mr. Harris and her botanical activities. Describes the inn at which she stayed, the plants surrounding it, and its owners.
Date:
1891-04-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter fragment
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter fragment
Description:
Fragment. Addressed to "Dear Friend." Lewis discusses how she wants to be better at keeping constant and frequent communication through letters with her friend. She also talks about her scientific charts and how she is planning to change them, her observations of organisms where she lives, and her readings of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and other poets.
Date:
1902-06-08
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Virginia, while Howland was vacationing in Maine. Describes reading Miss Knapp's letter aloud to her family. Discusses her botanical interest in the flora of Maine. Reflects on her' and Putnam's old age (both women were in their late eighties). Remarks on a recent speech by Jane Addams and role of women in restoring order to the world after the end of the World War. Discusses Thomas Jefferson, who Howland had recently read a biography of.
Date:
1915-08-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
1836 May 20, Haverford, to Dear Mother, Philadelphia
Title:
1836 May 20, Philadelphia
Date:
1836-05-20
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers

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