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Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Hopes to see Howland before Tierney leaves Poplar Ridge. Discusses Howland's travels, Tierney's own travel plans, and the upcoming school commencement.
Date:
1905-06-06
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Describes her recent activities, including her subscription to Unity Magazine and her preparations for the upcoming school term. Mentions various family/friends. Says she missed getting to spend time with Howland over the summer and hoped for a visit from her in the winter.
Date:
1905-09-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Says Tierney had enclosed pacifist material to be distributed to women's suffrage organizations.
Date:
1916-05-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses Tierney's recent activities, including photos she received from Howland and her difficulties finding a domestic servant. Reminisces on trips she took with Howland.
Date:
1905-09-24
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Powell Bond letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Elizabeth Powell Bond letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Elizabeth Powell Bond was an educator and social activist who became the first Dean of Women at Swarthmore College. Bond, a Quaker, writes that she has been reading "The Quaker Cross, which recounts the story of the John Bowne House in Flushing, New York. She asks Anna Jackson if she is aware of any report of the celebration of the Bowne House several years prior that she would be able to send to her for further reading or alternatively guide her where to look for the information. She also inquires after Jackson's family and shares news about her own.
Date:
1917-11-29
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Invites Howland to visit Tierney, since both were in Philadelphia at the same time.
Date:
1907-11-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Stanley R. Yarnall letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Stanley R. Yarnall letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Reminisces on visiting Howland at her home. Mentions the honorary doctorate she had been awarded several years prior.
Date:
1928-02-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Likely written by Hannah Letchworth Howland around the time of her marriage to Emily Howland's brother William. Hopes that Emily and her parents will be able to attend the wedding.
Date:
1916-02-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses plans to visit Howland in Sherwood, New York.
Date:
1918-06-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses an anti-war organization called the Fellowship of Reconciliation at length. Discusses pro-war sentiment.
Date:
1917-12-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Comments on Quaker responses to the Interchurch World Movement and the Organic Union and expresses distrust of the groups. Discusses Tierney's cousin Esther Morton Smith and her nephew Charles Wilbur Ufford.
Date:
1919-03-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses porcelain German coins that Tierney had sent Howland and lays out her itinerary for an upcoming trip to Europe.
Date:
1922-10-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses their upcoming trip and her travel arrangements. Asks if Howland would object to a Quaker named Hannah Morris accompanying them on their trip, saying "she is not a shockable person - is a believer in Suffrage and greatly interested in negro schools."
Date:
1903-02-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Agnes L. Tierney was a Quaker minister, activist, and educator. Invites her friend Emily Howland to come over tomorrow evening, mentioning that S. Yarnall is eager to see her. Also mentions her own unstable health.
Date:
1903-04-30
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses Tierney's recent activities, including hearing a speech from educator Charlotte R. Thorne, participating in the Pennsylvania Peace Conference, and hearing a suffrage speech by Jane Addams. Mentions the death of Hepsibeth C. Hussey and the health of Howland's niece Isabel.
Date:
1908-05-06
Collection:
Emily Howland Family 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. Corlies comments briefly on Schofield's recent ill health and the generosity the freedmen showed her while she was sick.
Date:
1868-03-06
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. Discusses Schofield's work teaching African American freedmen. Comments on Schofield's idea of encouraging her students to become teachers themselves.
Date:
1868-03-20
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
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. Enjoyed Schofield's illustrations of her life in Aiken. She and Elizabeth Dorsey want to visit Schofield. Comments on the letters from Schofield's students that were read at the ladies' meeting and shares her views on the intelligence of African Americans. Discusses the work of a teacher named Miss Stevens (possibly Elizabeth A. Stevens) in Murfreesboro. Tennessee.
Date:
1869-02-18
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:
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

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