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Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Discusses the Schofield School's financial issues and her conflict with the school board. Says that she would rather put all her own money into the school than let it go into debt. Threatens to resign as general manager, saying that the faculty would follow her out.
Date:
1912-01-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her friends
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her friends
Description:
Photocopy. Discusses business concerning the Schofield Normal and Industrial School, including its financial situation, donations she has received, and negotiations with local politicians.
Date:
1906-12-01
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to the board of trustees
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to the board of trustees
Description:
Addressed to the board of trustees of the Schofield Normal and Industrial School. Discusses the printing of the annual report and the success of the school.
Date:
1908-11-27
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ethel Bedient Gilbert letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Ethel Bedient Gilbert letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Ethel Bedient Gilbert, director of Publicity and Finance at Fisk University. Discusses the university's shaky financial situation. Praises its music program and credits it with the widespread interest in spirituals despite the department's lack of resources. Discusses Quaker involvement in Fisk.
Date:
1928-09-22
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Martha Schofield was a Quaker educator who founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial Institute for African Americans. Probably addressed to Anna M. Jackson. Responds to claims that she is becoming forgetful in her old age and explains that she feels close to death. Discusses her life's work and the financial troubles of the Schofield School relating to the previous Business Manager James N. Edgerton. Comments on the new Business Manager John Landis.
Date:
1912-01-01
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Mary Jenkins was Martha Schofield's niece. Schofield says she has lost her last tooth. Briefly discusses several topics about the Schofield School, including paying a student's board after her house was destroyed in a storm, the tendency of male graduates not to pay back student loans, students' ability to find work after graduation, and a teacher who was recently hired. Briefly mentions corresponding with Booker T. Washington. Says that women are better able determine the deepest and highest parts of someone's character. Discusses friendship and love between women and women, men and women, and men and men. Gives Jenkins advice on the role of a wife. Discusses news of family and friends.
Date:
1903-03-01
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby D. Munro letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Abby D. Munro letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Abby D. Munro was principal of the Laing School in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina, and founder of the Mt. Pleasant Home for Destitute Children. She encloses receipts for checks that Anna Jackson sent her. She discusses the financial troubles of her school and expresses her desire for an "Endowment Friend." She also provides a general update about the school and herself.
Date:
1907-04-08
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Mary Ash Jenkins
Description:
Martha Schofield was Mary Ash Jenkins's aunt. Discusses conflicts with James Edgerton, whom the trustees had brought on as a business manager of the Schofield School. Feels that she is being ignored in her role as General Manager. Includes a list of expenditures and other financial information from the school.
Date:
1911-06-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah Corlies was secretary of the Germantown Freedmen's Aid Association, an important source of funding for Schofield's school in Aiken. Thanks Schofield for sending letters about her work teaching freedmen. Discusses her organization's support for Schofield's teaching.
Date:
1868-04-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Charles Wilfred Conard letter to Mary M. Leeds
Title:
Charles Wilfred Conard letter to Mary M. Leeds
Description:
Discusses a Shelter mortgage settlement. Letter dated 1914-01-31 and envelope dated 1913-12-31.
Date:
1913 - 1914
Collection:
Aimwell School records, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Isaac N. Rendall letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Isaac N. Rendall letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Isaac N. Rendall was president of Lincoln University. Discusses Lawrence Obanyon Posey and Allen A. Scott, former students of Martha Schofield's who were studying at Lincoln University. Discusses the boys' financial support from Elizabeth Dorsey and others. Offers Schofield encouragement.
Date:
1870-09-17
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. Passes on news of family and friends, including a disabled boy named Henry Hancock who was scared he would need a crutch for life. Discusses the poor judgement of the boy's doctor. Comments on Schofield's plans to build a schoolhouse on her property in Aiken; asks about school funding. Discusses news of friends and family. On page 6 there is an obscure reference to James and Lucretia Mott meeting Mary Child.
Date:
1870-05-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sallie F. Corlies was secretary of the Germantown Freedmen's Aid Association, an important source of funding for Schofield's school in Aiken. Mentions construction Schofield has had done at her school. Briefly discusses fundraising.
Date:
1874-04-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah Corlies was a friend of Martha Schofield and the secretary of the Germantown Freedmen's Aid Association, an important source of funding for Schofield's school in Aiken. Tells her that the Association will continue to support the school another year. Suggests people Schofield might solicit for donations. Mentions Allen A. Scott and Lawrence O. Posey, former students of Schofield's studying at Lincoln University. Mentions the death of Charles Dickens.
Date:
1870-06-12
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edmund Willets letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Edmund Willets letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Tells Schofield that the Charity Society of the Jericho and Westbury has decided to contribute money to her school for African American freedmen. Asks about African American interest in the temperance movement.
Date:
1874-03-03
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter draft
Title:
Martha Schofield letter draft
Description:
Describes the crowded conditions in her school and thanks the recipient for a donation to help the institution. Presumably written from Aiken, South Carolina.
Date:
1872-01-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah F. Corlies letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah Corlies was a friend of Martha Schofield and the secretary of the Germantown Freedmen's Aid Association, an important source of funding for Schofield's school in Aiken. Tells Schofield how much she has enjoyed receiving Schofield's letters. Discusses the Association and the money it has raised for Schofield. Gives news of their mutual friends Sally Bowman and Lizzie Dorsey. Says she is enclosing reports. Discusses summer work for Schofield's former students Allen A. Scott and Lawrence Obanyon Posey.
Date:
1871-05-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
R. Lee Hemmings letter to Rebecca White
Title:
R. Lee Hemmings letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Appeal for financial support from R. Lee Hemmings, principal and treasurer of the Virginia Seminary Orphan and Industrial School.
Date:
1903-12-30
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Charlotte R. Thorn letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Charlotte R. Thorn letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on Calhoun Colored School letterhead by principal Charlotte R. Thorn. Thanks Howland for a recent donation. Discusses the school's financial difficulties and Thorn's health. Says that recent donation trends had favored higher education at the expense of secondary schools.
Date:
1928-11-26
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alfred W. Nicholson letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alfred W. Nicholson letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alfred W. Nicholson, the principal of the Bettis Academy, a school for African Americans in Trenton, South Carolina. Thanks Howland for her long-lasting support of the Academy. Discusses Nicholson's health and that of his family.
Date:
1929-03-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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