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Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield; Jane Jackson Price letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield; Jane Jackson Price letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary H. Child and Jane Jackson Price were Martha Schofield's mother and aunt, respectively. They describe the trip from Aiken, South Carolina, to Philadelphia.
Date:
1872-05-03
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends.
Date:
1855-01-22
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends, including her return from Auburn to Philadelphia. Talks about a woman named Miss Chapman from Massachusetts who has been struggling to find subscribers for her wreath-making business.
Date:
1855-07-04
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Description:
Written over a letter from Ellen Wright Garrison to 'Henry." Lucretia Mott is in Danby, Vermont, for a select quarterly meeting; she describes her trip there from Newburgh, New York, via Poughkeepsie, where she visited the recently founded Vassar College. She also discusses the hospitality of her host, Israel Drake.
Date:
1866-08-28
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Description:
Mott describes her trip home from Auburn, New York to Philadelphia. Letter is written on a printed circular titled "To the Friends of the Cause of Woman, dated January 15th, 1854 and signed by Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and others.
Date:
1862-07-23
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott has returned home from a visit to Nantucket and talks about the Nantucket relatives she visited with.
Date:
1869-09-12
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Screven House restaurant menu
Title:
Screven House restaurant menu
Description:
Day's menu for the Screven House restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, owned by T. S. Nickerson. Also includes a "traveler's guide" with information on transit to various cities. Handwritten notes say that Screven was visited on 6 April 1871 by Martha Schofield, Eliza H. Bell, Jennie Satterthwait, E. H. Bunting, and Jeannie R. Bunting, who went on to hear Lydia Thompson speak.
Date:
1871-04-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Esther Ann Jacobs letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Esther Ann Jacobs letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Esther Ann Jacobs was Graceanna Lewis' cousin. She apologizes for not writing letters to Lewis sooner. She informs her that her uncle John Thomson [sp] has died and briefly discusses his funeral. She shares some family updates and comments on the weather.
Date:
1827-1842
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ada Fussell letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Ada Fussell letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Ada Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' cousin. She expresses concern over Lewis' eye troubles. She wishes she could come stay with her for the winter.
Date:
1896-12-22
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Jackson letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Alice Jackson letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Written in Harmony Grove. Jackson says that she misses Lewis, asks about antislavery in York, and discusses recent antislavery and temperance picnics and a planned convention in Philadelphia at the end of the year. She also describes a trip to a wedding in Delaware County made difficult by flooding.
Date:
1843-10-11
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Esther Jane Trimble letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Esther Jane Trimble letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Signed "E" and likely written by Graceanna Lewis' cousin Esther Jane Trimble Lippincott. She describes her trip to England and his visit to Charlotte Bronte's home. She plans to go to Ireland next. The main reason for her letter is to make a request to have an inscribed stone to the memory of her parents placed in Merion.
Date:
1884-09-26
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He talks extensively about coal. He discusses his travels and says that Kentucky feels like a Northern state.
Date:
1869-03-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Lewis recounts how a Miss Watkins asked her whether she wanted to be addressed as "Miss" or "Professor" on paper, and Lewis states that although she would prefer the title Professor, considering she does do a large amount of work in teaching students, unfortunately since the institution where she teaches is "not an endowed one, she cannot take this title. She laments that this would maybe have helped her publish her book. Lewis writes of her stress about the work she has to create for her students on the topics of Geology, Paleontology, Botany, and Zoology. She mentions that she has been examining over fifty plants as of late and hopes to look at more. Lewis brings up a Miss Kelsie" who has worked as a missionary in China and talks about her interest in "foreign people."
Date:
1884-05-21
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Hunt letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Elizabeth Hunt letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Asks if her son Theodore can stay with Abby in New York for a short time while he is visiting the city. Hopes Abby will come stay with her at least one night during the summer.
Date:
1868-05-08
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:
Discusses her activities and travels, as well as news concerning family/friends. Mentions visiting Lucretia Mott.
Date:
1865-12-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to her family
Title:
Emily Howland letter to her family
Description:
Letter likely addressed to "Howland Home." Writes of traveling. References educators Caroline F. Putnam, poor Miss Putnam has no more freedom than a galley slave, Putnam's companion Sallie Holley, and Putnam's sister Miss Peet.
Date:
1883-12-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written from Nine Partners' Boarding School; signed "Susan." Briefly describes a trip over the Catskills and discusses the types of landscapes she prefers. Gives "a dissertation on the pleasures and pains of a journey in the [train] cars." Asks if Howland will continue her paper and discusses a style of shorthand called phonography. Discusses the recent Women's Rights Convention in Rochester and gives her opinion of the Declaration of Sentiments.
Date:
1848-12-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cornelia Hancock letter to Mrs. Phillip S. Justice
Title:
Cornelia Hancock letter to Mrs. Phillip S. Justice
Description:
Written by Quaker reformer and educator Cornelia Hancock. Letter of introduction for Emily Howland and her niece to friends in London. States that EH is an old abolitionist and would like to visit Ernestine L. Rose.
Date:
1883-12-30
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, who was staying at the Gleason Sanitarium with her mother Hannah. Discusses Howland's correspondence and Booker T. Washington's role as representative of African Americans while abroad. Shares her travel plans. Mentions Susan B. Anthony's recent movements. Remarks on the many missionaries staying alongside Howland at Mrs. Corey's; passes on their opinions on temperance in Asia.
Date:
1899-08-11
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:
Letter from abolitionist and educator Margaret Jones Burleigh. While travelling to summer in Maine with Mary (probably Mary Grew), spent time at Fanny Villard's home on the Hudson. Planning to travel to Boston and Philadelphia next.
Date:
1884-08-29
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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