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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Written from Fort Morton to Howland's sister-in-law. Briefly discusses her school for freedmen and another in the area.
Date:
1866-08-29
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 Isabel. Discusses Howland's prot&eaccute;g&eaccute;e Sidney Taliaferro Boyer, an African American woman who was about to leave for Northumberland County, Virginia, to work as a teacher for freedmen. Howland considered trying to arrange for Boyer to visit Isabel at Cornell, but was too worried about the racism of people at the school; says that "civilization of this age has not yet outlived the influence of slavery, the color line is still very distinct." Passes on other news of friends and family.
Date:
1877-11-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Margaret Jones Burleigh letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Margaret Jones Burleigh letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Chides Howland for being overly self-critical. Offers support in the wake of the death of Edward Strange, a British ex-convict, formerly interned at Eastern State Penitentiary, who Burleigh had sent to Howland for rehabilitation; writes of Strange's life and his family. Discusses her activities in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, including visiting a plantation and the Laing School. Answers a number of questions from Howland's previous letter. Discusses the importance of the Laing School's work.
Date:
1872-03-28
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Novella M. Nelson letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Novella M. Nelson letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to abolitionist and educator Caroline F. Putnam by her former student Novella M. Nelson. Discusses arrangements to have a mattress and "springs" made for Putnam by a craftsman in Washington and shipped to her home in Lottsburg, Virginia. Passes on news of Nelson and some friends, including a woman who had fled from the Northern Neck to Point Lookout, Maryland, to escape her enslaver.
Date:
1896-09-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Written from the Contraband Camp. Addressed to "My dear Quakeresses (E, M and Anna), likely the Anna, Mary, and Emily" of letter A00185988, and possibly including Anna Searing. Describes the author's activities in the Contraband Camp (''contraband'' was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines) and gives news of the freedmen there. Also passes on other news of events in Washington. Mentions Dr. Breed and the Holts, and discusses Maria Mann and Abby Hopper Gibbons.
Date:
1863-09-30
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Written from the Contraband Camp. Addressed to "Anna, Mary, and Emily, possibly including Anna Searing. Describes the author's recent illness, their activities in the Contraband Camp (''contraband'' was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines), and their interactions with other aid workers. Relates interactions with Julia Wilbur and Harriet Jacobs as well as several reverends of whom the author was skeptical. Also discusses hearing an excellent sermon.
Date:
1863-10-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland journal
Title:
Emily Howland journal
Description:
Journal used for various purposes, primarily related to Howland's work at the Normal School for Colored Girls (Miner Normal School). Includes lists of students, sermons/essays addressed to students, poetry, Freedman Box accounts, recipes, and various miscellaneous lists. Multiple pages have also been used for handwriting practice. Much of the text written in pencil has faded and is difficult to read. The journal was sometimes written in upside down and from back to front. Therefore, in this digital facsimile some of the contents are written upside down and should be read from the back of the volume to the front.
Date:
1858-1865
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Fragment, likely written from Fort Morton in Arlington, Virginia, in June or July 1866. Discusses Howland's work with freedmen, many of whom had insufficient food. Mentions a plan to visit Harpers Ferry with Mary Reed and M. Wilson. Discusses the prospect of buying land at the urging of Lewis Carter and "Uncle Moses"; says that "it would be a permanent benefit where one's purposes could carried to something like completeness."
Date:
1866
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Fragment; likely written near the beginning of Emily Howland's time in Northumberland County, Virginia. Discusses the interest of local freedmen in politics and the quick spread of news among them. Says "I shall have to find the men food or let them lose time and go out to work which I think poor economy."
Date:
1866
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Tallcot Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Tallcot Howland
Description:
Written from Fort Morton to Howland's mother. Discusses her recent activities and the weather. Makes a few remarks about her aid work with freedmen.
Date:
1866-08-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans minute book vol. 06
Title:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans minute book vol. 06
Description:
Minutes of the meetings of the Board of Managers of the Association for the Care of Colored Orphans. Some minutes discuss the admission of formerly enslaved children into the Shelter. Pages 105-108 and 191 are blank and were not scanned. An index of names is found on pages 247-261.
Date:
1862-1869
Collection:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans admission papers
Title:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans admission papers
Description:
Admission papers indicating the child(ren) being surrendered to the Association, their age at surrender, the date of surrender, and who surrendered them. Many of the papers include additional information about the child(ren), primarily notes from doctors who examined them and the addresses of those who surrendered them. Page 72 is the freedom paper for three formerly enslaved children who were admitted to the shelter.
Date:
1850-1860
Collection:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans admission papers
Title:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans admission papers
Description:
Admission papers indicating the child(ren) being surrendered to the Association, their age at surrender, the date of surrender, and who surrendered them. Many of the papers include additional information about the child(ren), primarily notes from doctors who examined them and the addresses of those who surrendered them. Pages 41v, 50, and 57a describe children as "contraband, a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines.
Date:
1861-1865
Collection:
Association for the Care of Colored Orphans Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
New York Association of Friends for the Relief of those held in Slavery &c., Financial Papers
Title:
New York Association of Friends for the Relief of those held in Slavery &c., Financial Papers
Description:
Financial papers, mostly bills and receipts.
Date:
1840 - 1843
Collection:
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
New York Association of Friends for the Relief of those held in Slavery &c., minute book
Title:
New York Association of Friends for the Relief of those held in Slavery &c., minute book
Description:
Minutes from the Acting Committee and General Association, as well as constitution, membership lists, epistles, and other materials.
Date:
1839 - 1844
Collection:
The New York Association of Friends for the Relief of Those Held in Slavery and the Improvement of the Free People of Color, Quakers and Slavery, Swarthmore
Julia Wilbur diary, January to May 1865
Title:
Julia Wilbur diary, January to May 1865
Description:
See also Wilbur's pocket diary for 1865 (mc1158_01_02_004).
Date:
1865-01-08 - 1865-05-13
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Martha Schofield diary, 1865-1866
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1865-1866
Description:
Diary of Martha Schofield, with entries from October 6, 1865 to July 10, 1866. Pages 78-79, 88-89, and 91-92 were cut out. Records her daily life during the time she spent on Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, where she was appointed by the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association to teach African Americans. Focuses on her experiences aiding and educating African American freedmen; Schofield also documents her relationships with her friends, coworkers (Mary A. Sharp, H. A. Evans, and N.B. Fisk), African Americans (Robert Smalls), and former slave owners.
Date:
1865-10-06 - 1866-07-10
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. John Stearns, Jr., letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Dr. John Stearns, letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Gibbons and Stearns met during the Civil War while working at an army hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland. Stearns discusses an article about the freedmen living in Port Royal, SC, as well as Edward Philbrick's work with formerly enslaved people at Beaufort. He approves of General Grant's treatment of the "contras, i.e., contrabands, a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines.
Date:
1863-08-26
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter fragment
Title:
Emily Howland letter fragment
Description:
Undated fragment, possibly to Howland's niece and nephew Isabel and Herbert Howland. Remarks briefly the supply of food in the area, a recent election, the reluctance of poor whites to unite with African Americans politically, and various freedmen including "Uncle" Moses Washington, Julia Christopher, and William Taliaferro.
Date:
1867-1900
Collection:
Emily Howland Family 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. Thanks Abby for the medallion. Has heard of the suffering of the freed people. Jane Woolsey is planning to help the freed people after her hospital is closed.
Date:
1865-12
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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