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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. Discusses reading Emerson's poetry. Describes the effect of the World War on Paris, from where Howland's niece Edith had just returned. Discusses the suffrage activism of Howland's niece Isabel. Mentions a woman named Edith Smith who was studying at Cheyney University.
Date:
1914-08-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield diary, 1869-1871
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1869-1871
Description:
Martha Schofield moved to South Carolina after the Civil War to run a school for African American children. Her diary describes her daily activities with a focus on her social life. Running themes include Schofield's deeply conflicted feelings over the engagement of her best friend Sarah "Sadie" Brouwer to Thomas Chalkley Bartram; her health problems involving her lungs, which she believed would be fatal; and the founding of what became the Schofield Normal and Industrial School. It also discusses her co-teacher Mary Taylor Stone and attending churches in Aiken. Entries are far less frequent after the end of 1869. Page numbers jump from 45 to 56. The last several pages contain records of Schofield's weight from 1871-1875 and an account of an examination by a Virginian phrenologist named Dr. Trotter in 1878.
Date:
1869-01-01 - 1871-03-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Brouwer describes her recent activities, including a smallpox vaccination, and her relationship with Schofield. Brouwer refers to herself as Schofield's husband in several places; for example, as it [the letter] is to my husband, she must overlook all imperfections, even if she is a 'schoolmarm,' and she signs the letter "thy devoted friend and wife."
Date:
1865-02-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Schofield's neighbor and close family friend Joseph Dodgson has died, and Schofield describes in detail the service for him, which included speeches from many prominent Quakers. She thanks Brouwer for the book she sent her but indicates a preference for non-fiction over fiction. She then lists the books she has recently read. She mentions that they will be having another concert benefit for the hospital and that "Contraband meetings" are being held at her house every week. She thanks Brouwer for the description of her bedroom and says she longs to be in it with her. She sends a ring to Brouwer and signs the letter "thy devoted lover."
Date:
1863-03-01
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. She writes that she believes Bartram is her most loyal and true friend. She talks about several funerals she has recently attended and her admiration for Washington Irving. She discusses the Civil War and her concern after the Union defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga. She praises Governor Andrew Curtain of Pennsylvania for "how nobly he worked for the soldiers comforts." Schofield also mentions the upcoming 25th anniversary of "Uncle and Aunt" (likely Bartram's uncle and aunt) and expresses her admiration for couples who are married for many years.
Date:
1863-09-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. She assures Schofield that she can always trust Sadie to maintain her confidence. She talks about her views on marriage. She discusses her trip to Chappaqua, and talks about the books she is reading and planning to read. She also talks about the Civil War Draft and a Quaker she knows who is a conscientious objector. She hopes Schofield will come to her aunt and uncle's upcoming anniversary celebration and encloses her invitation.
Date:
1863-10-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Schofield and Mary H. Child letters to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Schofield and Mary H. Child letters to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Schofield and Mary H. Child were Martha Schofield's sister and mother, respectively. Eliza passes on news of family and friends, including the return of invalids from Florida, the death of someone's child, and their reading. Child says she is glad her daughters "so grace their womanhood, instead of living without any aim in life as too many of the fair sex do." Describes Martha as "very independent, going where no other white ladies go, not a bit afraid of what the world will say."
Date:
1870-05-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dalton Hall
Title:
Dalton Hall
Description:
Two students reading inside Dalton Hall.
Date:
(approximate)1900 - (approximate)1929
Collection:
Bryn Mawr College Photo Archives

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