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Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, Martha Mott Lord, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Description:
Partially from Roadside and partially written from the home of her son-in-law Edward Hopper. In addition to passing along various news of friends and family, Lucretia Mott briefly discusses what she has read recently, a trip to speak at Camp William Penn (a Union Army training camp for African-American soldiers), proposed treatments for various relatives' health issues, aid for and public opinion about African-American freedmen, and her views on war. She also briefly comments on equality within marriage and makes a brief mention of Anna E. Dickinson.
Date:
1864-01-21
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Lucretia Mott
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Lucretia Mott
Description:
Martha Schofield expresses deep gratitude for the gifts Lucretia Mott sent her, which she will use to "cheer the weary hearts who are still bearing the burden of recent sorrows." She calls Lucretia a beacon of light "in these dark days when in a state surrounded by the shadows of our nation's sins" and praises her labors in working towards freeing slaves. She discusses the horrible treatment of black people in the South and mentions the Hamburg Massacre and her fear the Governor Chamberlain will be defeated in the upcoming election. She also discusses her school, the Schofield Normal and Industrial School.
Date:
1877-04-07
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Elizabeth Pease Nichol
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Elizabeth Pease Nichol
Description:
Elizabeth Pease was a British Quaker social reformer. Mott discusses the British and Foreign Anti-slavery Society and brings up the rising factions within the society, with regards to dissenting opinions on what would most help freed slaves.
Date:
1841-02-18
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord; John Oliver letter to Lucretia Mott
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord; John Oliver letter to Lucretia Mott
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott describes laying the dining room carpet and talks about the carpets of several family members. She writes about attending a discourse given by Charles G. Ames on his Unitarian experience and becoming ill upon leaving the talk. Partially written over a letter dated December 1, 1875, to Lucretia Mott from John Oliver requesting help raising funds for an Institution to train colored men in the mechanical trade.
Date:
1876-01-14
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Thesta Dana was the wife of Brigadier General James Jackson Dana and a member of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. Asks Gibbons for help getting an African-American girl named Mary Louisa Smith from Washington to Plymouth. Discusses her husband's work. Lists the clothing measurements of Mary Dana (likely a pseudonym for Smith), age 10.
Date:
1866-01-17
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Thesta Dana was the wife of Brigadier General James Jackson Dana and was a member of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. Discusses recent events involving Maria R. Mann and the conflicts surrounding her efforts to run a school for African Americans. Discusses giving aid and education to specific African American individuals. Mentions Dr. Stearns and Helen Lee.
Date:
1865-03-23
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Thesta Dana letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Thesta Dana was the wife of Brigadier General James Jackson Dana and a member of the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children. Much of the letter is concerned with arrangements for an African-American boy named William David Norris, in which Abby Hopper Gibbons, Thesta Dana, Leah Dorman, and a Mrs. Sinclair are involved. Dana says Emily Howland believes that African-Americans "cannot, for a generation at least, trust white people, and she thinks this is why an African-American man associated with his natural enemies, the Irish papists." Also discusses looking for a friend's son who may have died of war wounds, her husband's career, and military promotions. It is possible that not all pages belong together.
Date:
1866-01-10
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Discusses her experiences as a war nurse. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends, including Julia's education. Discusses events at the military hospital at Point Lookout and the news of the army of the Potomac. Is visited by a formerly enslaved man who has previously escaped from and been reclaimed by his master.
Date:
1863-05-28
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Thomas Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Thomas Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Thomas Jackson was Martha Schofield's maternal uncle. He praises Schofield for the work she is doing in the South and is pleased to hear that she refused to shake the hands of Rebels. He condemns all the Rebels and the "arch-traitor" Andrew Johnson. He also discusses conflicts in Europe that he fears the United States will be drawn into. He says he was of the first settlers of California and promises to tell Schofield about his "adventures to this far off land" when he sees her again. He briefly discusses his time in the West Indies and interactions with the freedmen there. He also talks about a lengthy lawsuit he is involved in against "Rebels" regarding a land dispute. He talks of his adoration for Anna E. Dickinson and is impressed that Schofield has met her.
Date:
1866-06-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Description:
Briefly discusses the "Diet Kitchen" she set up in Washington, D.C. Discusses the gratitude of the soldiers whom the Sanitary Commission aided at Fredericksburg and her work as a nurse there. Describes her trip by boat to the towns of White House and Norfolk, including "contraband" and freed people of color ("Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines).
Date:
1864-06-12
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Julia Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Julia Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Passes on news of family and friends. Mentions that Dr. Sewall has sent a dollar for "the Gazette, " likely the Hammond Gazette, produced by patients at the military hospital where Abby Hopper Gibbons worked as a nurse. Discusses several "contraband" freedmen who Abby Hopper Gibbons helped escape to the north ("contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines); gives a few details of their lives in New York City. Says "we don't believe in the contras as servants in these parts . . . they are fully as far from the Kingdom of Heaven as most of us, and not so grateful as might be expected."
Date:
1863-06-10
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter
Description:
Fragment. Describes her nursing work during the Civil War, including a young man who died of a head wound. Discusses the poor conditions of the freedmen in Virginia.
Date:
1861-1865
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter
Description:
Fragment. Describes the discovery of a spy and talks about a freedwoman (named Mary?) and her family. Briefly discusses the attitudes of freedmen towards their former masters. "I did not think when I left you that I should pass a night with rebels, under their roof."
Date:
1862-1864
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Student letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Student letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Students wish Howland well and hope to see her soon. Letters signed by Virginia Laws, Harriet Laws, and Louisa Ball; note on accompanying envelope indicates these were students who had been at Howland's school for freedmen for less than four months.
Date:
1867-09-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Unsigned fragment. Possibly from Sarah Redwood Longstreth Parrish or one of her children, based on the address. Asks for details about the situation of freedmen in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, on behalf of a relief organization. Likely related to a report of the New York Freedmen's Association published in the Friends' Intelligencer on 1865-02-04.
Date:
1864-12-26
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary R. Tucker letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Mary R. Tucker letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Mary R. Tucker, an African American registered nurse. Discusses a formerly-enslaved friend of Tucker's whose 100th birthday was coming up. Asks if Howand wanted any more diaries.
Date:
1900-1924
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline F. Putnam and students letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Caroline F. Putnam and students letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Written from Lottsburg by students at the freedman's school of Howland's friends Sallie Holley and Caroline F. Putnam. Putnam's letter at the start notes that the students wrote to Howland for their composition exercise. The students mostly wish Howland and her sick father well and offer brief descriptions of life in Lottsburg. List of students: Florence Bailey, Elizabeth Carter, Ellen Smith, Novela Middleton [sp], Pyramus Johnson, Fanny Nutt [sp], Matilda Ann Carter, Mary Ann Johnson, Lusanna [sp], William J. Middleton [sp], Henrietta Middleton, Henry Washington, Codar North [sp].
Date:
1870-02-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline F. Putnam letter fragment to Isabel Howland
Title:
Caroline F. Putnam letter fragment to Isabel Howland
Description:
Undated fragment from reformer Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Lottsburg, Virginia, to Isabel Howland, a suffragist and niece of Emily Howland. Discusses Putnam's students, who she was teaching to recite Charles Sumner's speeches on equality before the law. Comments on the freedmen's houses. Invites Howland to visit and discusses what she might do in Virginia.
Date:
1872
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland account book and diary
Title:
Emily Howland account book and diary
Description:
Consists primarily of financial records. Also contains journal entries, lists of students Howland taught, records of supplies she received, and other occasional miscellany, including reports to military officers about her teaching and notes from her medical studies. Most of the contents date from Howland's time working with freedmen in the 1860s, but some parts are later; the financial records in particular often last into the 1870s, with a few reaching into the 1890s. The book was often written in upside down and from back to front. Therefore, in this digital facsimile some pages are presented upside down and should be read from the back of the volume to the front.
Date:
1863-1898
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland account book and notes
Title:
Emily Howland account book and notes
Description:
Primarily contains names of freedmen with whom Howland worked, often along with notes on clothing they needed and the ages and genders of their children. Also contains some records of Howland's expenses and a pair of recipes for diarrhea remedies.
Date:
1866
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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