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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 their correspondence, recent events, and news concerning family and friends. Talks about the importance of education and wishes she could be a student for a few more years.
Date:
1860-03-11
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 Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends. Wants Sadie to visit her. Mentions her interest in phrenology.
Date:
1860-04-15
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends, including a party attended by abolitionists Robert Purvis, Harriet Purvis, and Cyrus Whitson. Asks about Martha's new job teaching in Bayside, New York; briefly discusses her own work as a teacher. Reminisces about their deceased father.
Date:
1857-02-26
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:
Possibly a fragment. Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. She writes about travelling to Bayside and also about seeing off her cousin Abraham Bell, who had joined the Union army.
Date:
1863-11-23
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Bell was Martha Schofield's aunt. She thanks Schofield for sending her flowers. She discusses her recent activities and shares news of family and friends, including the engagement of Sadie Brouwer to Thomas Chalkey Bartram. She also expresses sorrow over her two daughters who died young and shares that Carrie Willets Frame recently had a stillborn child.
Date:
1869-03-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza H. Bell was Martha Schofield's aunt. Mentions a recent visit to Schofield in Aiken, South Carolina. Discusses Archer Walker, a former student of Schofield's now working for Bell's family. Passes on various news of friends and family.
Date:
1871-05-23
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Mary H. Child
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Mary H. Child
Description:
Mary Child was Martha Schofield's mother, and Eliza Bell was Child's sister. She shares news about family and friends.
Date:
1869-11-23
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Bell was Martha Schofield's maternal aunt. Intends to send Schofield books and paper supplies for her school in Aiken. Discusses recent events and news concerning family/friends, including Schofield's newlywed cousin Henrietta Jackson Turner.
Date:
1869-02-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza H. Bell was Martha Schofield's aunt. She asks if Schofield knows of a "colored" person who would be interested in working for her as a domestic servant. She discusses her family and the newly established Swarthmore College.
Date:
1869-03-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Archer Walker and Annie Bell Storm letters to Martha Schofield
Title:
Archer Walker and Annie Bell Storm letters to Martha Schofield
Description:
Annie B. Storm was Martha Schofield's cousin; Archer Walker was likely one of Schofield's former students in Aiken, South Carolina. Walker tells Schofield how he is adjusting to life in New York. Bell's letter passes on news of the family.
Date:
1871-05-10
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Jane J. Satterthwait and Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Jane J. Satterthwait and Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Jane "Jennie" J. Satterthwait was Martha Schofield's cousin and Eliza H. Bell was Schofield's aunt. They discuss recent events and news concerning family and friends. Bell encourages her to come home from New York where she has been working as a teacher.
Date:
1859-06-26
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield commonplace book, 1858-1884
Title:
Martha Schofield commonplace book, 1858-1884
Description:
Journal of poems, quotes, and prose extracts by various authors, copied by Martha Schofield between 1858-1865. Also contains some newspaper clippings and a list of "assumed names." Includes content about abolition, capital punishment, and the death of Abraham Lincoln. Authors of excerpts include Francis D. Gage, Maria Townsend, Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Hannah Flagg Gould, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Also features writing by Martha Schofield's family, friends, and students. Pages 3, 139, 148, 150, 151, and 154 are blank and were not scanned.
Date:
1858-1884
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline Willets Frame letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Caroline Willets Frame letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Describes her health. Discusses their friendship, Schofield's popularity with men, and Frame's love of solitude.
Date:
1860-05-12
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline Willetts Frame letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Caroline Willetts Frame letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Caroline "Carrie" Willets Frame describes recent events, including her trip to West Point. Says that she is currently the "sole mistress" while Emmie is away, possibly referring to working as a teacher.
Date:
1860-07-28
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. Discusses recent events and news concerning family and friends.
Date:
1859-02-28
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza H. Bell was Martha Schofield's maternal aunt. Discusses the recent death of her daughter Jane Hough Bell (1843-1858) and references her other deceased daughter Mary Christy Bell (1845-1854). Mentions an upcoming marriage
Date:
1858-05-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield diary, 1858-1860
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1858-1860
Description:
Describes Martha Schofield's daily life, including social engagements, lectures and other events she attended, Quaker meetings, and her reading circles. During this period, Schofield taught in several schools near New York City. Includes lists of books Schofield has read, letters she has sent, and letters she has received. Pages 141-149 are missing.
Date:
1858-01-01 - 1860-10-31
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 Bartram in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Expresses her regret over leaving Harrison, where she had been working as a teacher for the past ten months (Bartram was one of her students). Is staying with relatives in Bayside before traveling the rest of the way home to Darby, Pennsylvania. Discusses recent events.
Date:
1859-08-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Bell letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza H. Bell was Martha Schofield's maternal aunt. Invites Schofield to come live with them for a few months and offers to pay Schofield to tutor her children. Discusses her opinions on John Brown's raid of Harpers Ferry.
Date:
1859-12-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College