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Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield's who joined the Union army during the Civil War. Says he has been bedridden with rheumatism. Discusses the military situation and the advance of Confederate troops.
Date:
1861-08-23
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield's who joined the Union army during the Civil War. Written from Camp Tennally. Describes the state of the war and predicts its future course.
Date:
1861-09-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield's who joined the Union army during the Civil War. Written from Camp Pierpont. Describes the difficulties his rheumatism caused for him on a march. Discusses his views on violence and the death of General Edward Baker.
Date:
1861-10-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield who joined the Union army during the Civil War. Written from Camp Pierpont. Discusses his friendship with Schofield and the emotional support she has given him in the past. He does not expect the war to last much longer.
Date:
1861-11-25
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield's who joined the Union army during the Civil War. Describes his life at Camp Wayne, including his uniform and his schedule. Hopes Schofield will come visit him.
Date:
1861-07-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Essay about Martha Schofield and Elizabeth Yarnall
Title:
Essay about Martha Schofield and Elizabeth Yarnall
Description:
Titled "To Martha and Elizabeth of the household of Faith." Written in biblical style. Summarizes the Civil War and describes Martha Schofield's and Elizabeth Yarnall's decision to teach African American freedmen in South Carolina.
Date:
1866-1870
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Fragment. Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Discusses her commute to work and reflects on the approaching end of the year. Says she recently attended a lecture by Henry Ward Beecher.
Date:
1861-12
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Fragment. Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Describes Fourth of July celebrations and advocates for spending the holiday at charitable work. Discusses the increasingly anti-slavery views of people in the North.
Date:
1861-07-05
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Discusses the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, over which Schofield has been in deep mourning. Describes the funeral procession in Philadelphia, the viewing held in City Hall, and a funeral oration by Miss Emma Hardings.
Date:
1865-04-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Probably written to Sadie Brouwer Bartram, whom Martha Schofield met in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and remained close friends with. Rejoices in the Union capture of Richmond. Discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends, including her friend Elizabeth Steel. Inquires about acquaintances from New York.
Date:
1865-04
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:
Fragment. In addition to giving her sister news of family and friends, Lucretia Mott discusses war, John C. Fremont, James Miller McKim's "blind concert, and the sickness of her granddaughter Lucretia Mott Hopper. Thousands and tens of thousands idle soldiers, to be clothed and cared for by the labor of women in great measure"
Date:
1861-11-10
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott offers condolences for the death of Earle's mother, Phebe Folger Hussey. She discusses recent news of family and friends. Mott also briefly comments on Charles Wood's marriage to Emma Parker and mentions that Maria Hopper is going to City Point, Virginia, to join her aunt Abby Hopper Gibbons and cousin Sally Emerson as a military nurse.
Date:
1864-07-19
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Description:
Mott tells her cousin about a relative's death in battle and relays other news of friends and family.
Date:
1863-01-11
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Mary Hussey Earle
Description:
Written from Roadside on a printed circular titled "To the Friends of the Cause of Woman, dated January 15th, 1854 and bearing the names of Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, and others. Mott offers condolences for the death of Earle's sister Phebe Hussey Gardner (1800-1863) and discusses family members recently injured or killed in battle.
Date:
1863-08-01
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:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses the recent remarriage of Charles Wood (ex-husband of her cousin Caroline Chase Stratton) and various people's reaction to it. She briefly discusses Wendell Phillips Garrison's and Lucy McKim's romantic involvement. She relates news about friends and family, including Augusta Stratton Needles's recent run-in with Confederate soldiers.
Date:
1864-07-17
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:
Written from Roadside; possibly to Martha Mott Lord. Lucretia Mott gives various news of friends and family, including the continued illness of her granddaughter Maria Hopper. Briefly mentions Rachel W. Moore going to speak to soldiers at Camp William Penn. Talks about her servants. Briefly comments on the upcoming wedding of her niece Ellen Wright and William Lloyd Garrison, Jr.
Date:
1864-08-23
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:
Written partially from Roadside; may also have been addressed to Martha Mott Lord. Lucretia Mott passes on recent news of friends and family to her sister Martha "Pattie" Wright and briefly describes a lecture by Anna E. Dickinson. Mott also makes brief mention of sending supplies to Iowa and recent trouble at Camp William Penn (a Union Army training camp for African-American soldiers), and tells stories about her granddaughter Mary Mott Lord (born 1861) and great-granddaughter Maria "May" Hallowell (born 1860).
Date:
1864-04-19
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:
Possibly a fragment. Mott discusses the war and the chances of it ending slavery. She also mentions having recently had Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and William Lloyd Garrison to dinner at her house.
Date:
1861-11-04
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:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott provides her sister with news of family and friends, including several Quakers she knows who are serving as soldiers during the Civil War. She expresses a negative opinion of Abraham Lincoln and describes the funeral of Henry Grew.
Date:
1862-08-17
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and family
Description:
Written over the course of several days, in part from Roadside. Lucretia Mott explains why she has not had time to not write to her sister lately and passes on news of friends and family. In addition to briefly discussing the annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society and an antislavery fair hosted by Elizabeth Perot, Mott offers lengthier comments on the wedding of Ann Mather, her family's Christmas cooking for the African-American soldiers at the nearby Camp William Penn, other Christmas arrangements, the illnesses of various friends from the antislavery movement, and the wedding of her cousin Laura Stratton to Fitzhugh Birney, an Episcopalian ("I never witnessed a wedding in a church before, save a Quaker meeting"). Mott also makes brief allusions to her views on war and her own mortality, and a George Ward's employment of African-American farmers.
Date:
1863-12-20
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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