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Letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Signed "Allen." The handwriting resembles that in A00182994. Offers Schofield advice on buying a horse. Explains how he bought a store; asks her for business advice. Expresses great affection for her; asks for a photograph of her. Mentions that her former student Lawrence Obanyon Posey is in town.
Date:
1875-09-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Anna Webster Bunting letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Anna Webster Bunting letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Anna Webster Bunting was a close friend of Martha Schofield's. Discusses recent events, her poor health, and how she has fallen out of touch with their mutual friends.
Date:
1868-12-27
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield describes in detail her symptoms during a recent bout of breakbone fever. She discusses growing older and is excited that her cousin Abraham Bell is sending her a barrel of apples.
Date:
1880-02
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Schofield details the struggles of the newly enfranchised African Americans in the South to vote and the violence enacted against them by white men. She also discusses the rampant racism in Aiken and her own struggles as an educator and defender of African Americans. She says that if they see fit, they can submit parts of the letter to be published by the press.
Date:
1880-11-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield writes that she is staying to look after the Schofield School for awhile and is allowing her principal William Rodenbach and his family to travel for the summer. Rodenbach's trip will include a visit with Schofield's sisters. She mourns the death of Marietta Ridgeway Kirk, a distant cousin that Schofield was close to. She also reminisces about her deceased best friend Sadie Bartram and discusses the school's finances.
Date:
1884-06-23
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Describes the year-end exercises at the Schofield School. Paraphrases speeches given by Alfred Nicholson, a former student who had returned as a teacher, and Jacob H. Posey, another former student and also the brother of former student Lawrence Obanyon Posey. Quotes a poem John Greenleaf Whittier. Discusses her summer plans.
Date:
1887-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Discusses work she has been doing around her house, including buying furniture and having carpets taken up. Thanks her sisters for giving her a camel-hair dress. Discusses people leaving money to her school in their wills. Remarks on Phebe (Taylor's?) engagement. Shares news of her recent activities.
Date:
1887-06-12
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary H. Child was Martha Schofield's mother. Discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends. Writes about attending multiple Quaker Meetings.
Date:
1869-02-28
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Passes on news of friends and family. Offers to help Schofield with her will.
Date:
1875-11-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Discusses a recent visit to Schofield in Aiken with her son Herbert. Passes on news of friends and family. Says she will enclose her photograph for a student named Sophia Dickerson.
Date:
1871-05-25
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She describes making a new friend while travelling to Charleston, and then shopping in Charleston with her new friend. She also shares some news about friends and family.
Date:
1869-05-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
She describes visiting her friend Sophy, who taught near Ridge Spring, and was immensely impressed by her school. She shares that she got a refrigerator and briefly talks about her campaign to be appointed postmistress of Aiken.
Date:
1881-05-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield writes about a surprise visit from a man from Delaware County named Preston Thomas.
Date:
1881-12-11
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Discusses her work writing and printing the annual reports for the Schofield School with superintendent Samuel J. Entrikin. Turns down an offer of printing work because the student printers are away for the summer. Discusses her recent activity. Mentions Christian Science and faith healing.
Date:
1887-06-25
Collection:
Martha Schofield 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. This letter is a postscript attached to a letter written to Mary Taylor Stone prior to their marriage. He talks about Schofield's school and was glad to hear that the "'Music Room' has not lost its proven reputation for its concerts." He discusses croquet and offers a penny to one of Schofield's students for her "skill in writing Roman numbers."
Date:
1868-1869
Collection:
Martha Schofield 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 and Mary Taylor have not yet decided where they will live after they get married, but it will not be in Aiken, South Carolina. He is grateful for the close friendship between Schofield and Mary Taylor, and he, too, considers Schofield to be one of his best friends.
Date:
1869-06-17
Collection:
Martha Schofield 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 and his fiance Mary Taylor are trying to decide where to live after they get married but have not made any final decisions. He also discusses religion.
Date:
1869-05-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield writes that the new policy of the Schofield School is that they will no longer accept pupils from outside of Aiken unless they board at the school. She describes a recent scare when a fire broke out from a stove in the school, but William Rodenbach, the principal of the school, put it out before it could cause major damage.
Date:
1884-01-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield writes that her servant "Aunt Amy" fell and broke her rib, so she is bedridden while she recovers. Her other servant Anna is ill, but Schofield is managing without them. She also writes about her school, her recent activities, and talks in detail about Katrina Rodenbach, the daughter of the Schofield School's principal, William Rodenbach.
Date:
1884-03-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sisters
Description:
Martha Schofield details a recent illness of William Rodenbach, who was the principal of the Schofield School. She says she then taught some of the "upper classes" in her school how to care for the sick. She and those in her school are mourning the death of a student named Connors. Schofield then discusses at length the commencement ceremonies of her school and transcribes several of the speeches given by students and staff. She also discusses her activities immediately following the ceremony, which included having the "highest classes" to her home for tea. She is unsure of her plans for the summer.
Date:
1884-06-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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