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Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Discusses recent events, including attending her cousin's wedding. Briefly discusses her work as a teacher.
Date:
1859-09-15
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield; Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield; Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah J. Ash and Lydia A. Schofield were Martha Schofield's sisters. Sarah details the wedding of their cousin Henrietta Jackson Turner. Lydia discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends. Briefly mentions listening to a sermon by Lucretia Mott.
Date:
1869-02-28
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, 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
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Description:
Lucretia Mott details the wedding of her niece Ellen Wright and William Lloyd Garrison, Jr., especially the preparations (including the making of the marriage certificate).
Date:
1864-09-14
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her family
Description:
Lucretia Mott describes attending a relative's wedding and passes along other news of friends and family.
Date:
1866-11-09
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Edward Hopper and Elizabeth Coffin Yarnall
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Edward Hopper and Elizabeth Coffin Yarnall
Description:
Lucretia Mott is in Brooklyn visiting her daughter Martha "Pattie" Mott Lord, who has just given birth to a daughter named Anna. She mentions a visit to John Merritt's and Robert Collyer and discusses Quaker ideas about music, dancing, and weddings. "The solemnity of a marriage forbade its being made a festive occasion.... I thought 'the practice of music and the feelings of Friends had undergone such change, as to regard it less objectionable in this day—when dancing was little more than walking, and preferable to the kind of plays at weddings when some of us were young.'"
Date:
1865-07-06
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 talks about cleaning and organizing her home. She is excited about Martha's upcoming visit. She also talks about the upcoming wedding of her granddaughter Fanny Cavender to Thomas Parrish.
Date:
1868-04-03
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria Mott Davis letter to Anna Davis Hallowell
Title:
Maria Mott Davis letter to Anna Davis Hallowell
Description:
Written from Roadside. Briefly discusses complications in the printing of Lucretia Mott's biography. Talks about her granddaughter Maria "May" Hallowell and various writers and preachers, including Coleridge and Theodore Parker. Mentions that her cousin Fanny Cavender attending a "high ritualistic" Episcopal church because it was fashionable. Briefly contrasts her own "Quaker simplicity" with the "fine city houses" she visits.
Date:
1883-12-14
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah Ash was Martha Schofield's sister. She and her husband, Samuel Ash, are very grateful for Schofield's letter. She describes her recent activities, including attending a wedding (possibly that of their brother Benjamin Schofield).
Date:
1866-11-19
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Anna M. Jackson letter to Mary E. Davis
Title:
Anna M. Jackson letter to Mary E. Davis
Description:
Mary E. "Libbie" Davis was Anna Jackson's sister. Jackson discusses the illness of her husband, William Jackson, who is being attended by a Dr. Gilbert. She also describes recent social engagements and discusses what to wear to an upcoming wedding. Includes notes about the people mentioned in the letter that were likely written by Anna Jackson's daughter, Anna J. Theiss.
Date:
1878-07
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Phebe Tallcot diary
Title:
Phebe Tallcot diary
Description:
Titled "A journal of the peregrinations etc. of a comical character." Likely by Phebe Tallcot or one of her sisters; the last line points out that the author's "name is understood as it is nowhere mentioned in the whole volume." Details the family's journey to Yearly Meeting in New York City and back. Lists people who they visited and Quaker meetings they attended. Also discusses several weddings.
Date:
1818
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
"The Affair of the Night Before" Elkinton wedding account
Title:
"The Affair of the Night Before" Elkinton wedding account
Description:
An account of the night before the Mason-Elkinton wedding, specifically concerning the best man, Charles Thompson Moon. Describes Thompson's confinement to bed with a swollen foot and his subsequent "kidnapping" by the bride and groom so that he could attend the wedding.
Date:
1916-10
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Letter on the marriage of Katharine Wistar Elkinton and Howard W. Elkinton
Title:
Letter on the marriage of Katharine Wistar Elkinton and Howard W. Elkinton
Description:
Letter to Eleanor from "Mother." Addressed from "Logan" [sp]. Describes the wedding ceremony of Katharine Wistar Elkinton and Howard W. Elkinton, in particular the clothing of the couple and the attendees. Mention's Charles Thompson Moon's foot injury. Shares her opinion of each outfit and guest.
Date:
1916-10-15
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Wedding account of Katharine Wistar Elkinton and Howard W. Elkinton
Title:
Wedding account of Katharine Wistar Elkinton and Howard W. Elkinton
Description:
A detailed account of the events of the Mason-Elkinton wedding, including the preparations, the meal, the ceremony, the reception, and a poem that was read, entitled "The Epic of the Awksfoot."
Date:
1916-10
Collection:
Elkinton Family papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
1865 April 20, Haverford, to Clemmy
Title:
1865 April 20, to Clemmy
Description:
Edward D. offers spiritual advice to cousin Clementine, largely in the way of quotations from the New Testiment on suffering, consolation, judgment and forgiveness. Edward describes his experience as a groomsman at the wedding of Elizabeth S. and Alexis T. Cope, which Clementine apparently must not have attended. He was very much impressed with a prayer by minister Samuel Emlen. Edward plans on maving into the house previously owned by former Haverford School principal Joseph Harlan.
Date:
1865-04-20
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1896 September 27, Awbury, to My Dear Wife
Title:
1896 September 27, to My Dear Wife
Date:
1896-09-27
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1867 September 5, Awbury, to My dear Frank
Title:
1867 September 5, to My dear Frank
Description:
2 and 1/2 sheets
Date:
1867-09-05
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1901 January 19, to Father & Mother
Title:
1901 January 19, to Father & Mother
Description:
Letter written on January 19 & January 25, 1901. Written while at Bournewood Hospital receiving treatment for nervous breakdown.
Date:
1901-01-19
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Mira Sharpless Townsend and Samuel Townsend letter to their family
Title:
Mira Sharpless Townsend and Samuel Townsend letter to their family
Description:
Addressed to "Beloveds" and "Dear Ones, including her sister Lydia A. Sharpless, who have been traveling in the Middle East. Mira Sharpless Townsend discusses their correspondence and recent news. Mentions her work at the Rosine Association and that her written piece on capital punishment should be reprinted. Discusses various engagements/weddings, including the engagement of her stepdaughter Beulah and a wedding held at the Rosine Association for one of the women inmates." Samuel Townsend briefly reports on recent events.
Date:
1850-05-05 - 1850-05-13
Collection:
Mira Sharpless Townsend Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Discusses the upcoming marriage of her sister Sarah Jane Ash. Wishes she was still working as a teacher in Harrison, New York (Brouwer was one of her students); looks forward to Brouwer coming to visit her next spring. Will send a paper about the beached whale she recently saw.
Date:
1859-10-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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