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Jane Day letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Jane Day letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Thanks Jackson for the Christmas card; did not send one in return due to being busy with relief work. Would like to discuss her relief work with Jackson. Sends her well wishes.
Date:
1915-02-03
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joel Bean letter to Anna M. Jackson and William Morris Jackson
Title:
Joel Bean letter to Anna M. Jackson and William Morris Jackson
Description:
Joel Bean was a Quaker minister. He writes to the Jacksons to say farewell and thank them and the other Quakers in their Monthly Meeting for being welcoming to him.
Date:
1905-05-01
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John Ashworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
John Ashworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
John Ashworth, a Quaker from England, responds to a recent letter from Anna Jackson, marveling at what she and others have accomplished in unifying different groups of Quakers. He goes on to list some of his past accomplishments, including being a delegate to the Thirteenth International Peace Congress in Boston in 1904. He prays that World War I will not divide the British and American Quakers.
Date:
1916-07-18
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John Ashworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
John Ashworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
John Ashworth, a Quaker from England, apologizes to Anna Jackson for not writing to her sooner. He says that he interested in the account of her grandson and shares that he lost three nephews in the war. He plans to attend Yearly Meeting in London which will be concurrent with New York Yearly Meeting.
Date:
1919-05-10
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Gordon Bennett Jr. letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
James Gordon Bennett Jr. letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
James Gordon Bennett Jr. was publisher of the New York Herald. Addressed to 'Madam"; likely to Anna Jackson. He writes that he agrees that photographs of 'youthful delinquents' brought before the court should not be published. As a result of her request, he has ordered that no portrait sketches be included in the reports of the court proceedings.
Date:
1911-06-11
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
David Ferris letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
David Ferris letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
David Ferris was a Quaker from Wilmington, Delaware. Discusses Jackson's cousin Charles W. Price. Recounts his own prison reform efforts in Delaware and asks her to write to New York newspapers about abolishing cruel punishments.
Date:
1907-05-24
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John B. Shaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
John B. Shaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
John B. Shaw was the reverend of the West End Presbyterian Church in New York. Tentatively agrees to "serve" Jackson next March if he is available.
Date:
1902-10-11
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucile Roberts letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Lucile Roberts letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Lucile Roberts, writing from the Colored Orphan Asylum of New York, says she thinks about Jackson frequently and reminds her to visit on Friday. Mentions her progress in school.
Date:
1907-02-01
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Jacob A. Riis letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Jacob A. Riis letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Jacob A. Riis was a social reformer and journalist. While he would like to attend Jackson's meeting in February, he is going away for a month and doesn't think he will be back in time.
Date:
1901-01-14
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eleanor Taylor letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Eleanor Taylor letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Eleanor Taylor was the committee secretary of the Mayor's Committee of Women on National Defense. Thanks Jackson on behalf of the committee for her letter to Police Commissioner Woods and Mayor Mitchell concerning policewomen.
Date:
1917-09-14
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Helen Sanger letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Helen Sanger letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Helen Sanger was an office executive of the National Board of the Young Women's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Acknowledges Jackson's note agreeing to speak to the National Training School students on December 10.
Date:
1913-11-25
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John B. Shaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
John B. Shaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
John B. Shaw was the reverend of the West End Presbyterian Church in New York. His schedule is too full to make an engagement he previously agreed to with Mrs. Boole.
Date:
1902-09-17
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
H. B. Laidlaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
H. B. Laidlaw letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Harriet Burton Laidlaw was a social reformer and suffragist. Written on "Woman Suffrage Party of New York" stationery of which Laidlaw is listed as chairman. She thanks Anna Jackson for the "information concerning December 14th."
Date:
1912-11-30
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Matthew McKeon letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Matthew McKeon letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Matthew McKeon was a captain in the New York City Police Department. He thanks Anna Jackson for her letter of remembrance. He shares some thoughts about the subjects within it.
Date:
1915-04-13
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Patrick F. McGowan letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Patrick F. McGowan letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Patrick F. McGowan was president of the A. Lincoln Realty Company in New York. He writes that he agrees with Anna Jackson that they should have more policemen but supposes that Commissioner Waldo is doing the best that he can under the circumstances.
Date:
1911-10-13
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Wolcott Wadsworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
James Wolcott Wadsworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
James Wolcott Wadsworth was a Republican politician from New York; he served in both the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Written on United States Senate stationery. He writes that he received the letter from Anna Jackson and her husband, William Morris Jackson, urging his support for the Child Labor Bill. He says he will give the bill careful consideration if it comes before the Senate for action.
Date:
1916-01-31
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the stationary of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, where Washington served as principal. He informs Anna Jackson that they have no lantern slides "of the view 'Out of the old, into the new.'"
Date:
1899-02-09
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Weitenkampf letter to Anna M. Jackson and William Morris Jackson
Title:
Frank Weitenkampf letter to Anna M. Jackson and William Morris Jackson
Description:
Likely written by Frank Weitenkampf, who was was an authority on engraving and chief of the art and print departments at the New York Public Library. He and his mother send their sympathies to Anna Jackson over the death of a relative (likely her grandson, Morris Bacon Jackson, who died of pneumonia on October 27, 1918).
Date:
1918-10-30
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rosalie Loew Whitney letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Rosalie Loew Whitney letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Rosalie Loew Whitney was a lawyer and suffragist. She is sending Anna Jackson a book and thanks her for the kind Christmas gift.
Date:
1905-01-01
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Booker T. Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Booker T. Washington was American educator, author, orator, and advisor to presidents of the United States. Written on the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute stationary, where Washington served as principal. In response to a letter from Anna Jackson, he writes that at Tuskegee, they divide the time equally between industrial and literary branches.
Date:
1907-11-26
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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