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1893 September 20, Awbury, to My Dear Wife
Title:
1893 September 20, to My Dear Wife
Date:
1893-09-20
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1851 May 5, Philadelphia, to Dear Brother, Woodbourne
Title:
1851 May 5, Woodbourne
Date:
1851-05-05
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run sporadically from 1886-07-01 to 1888-05-07. Chronicles Howland's daily activities and trip to Bermuda. Includes a description of her interaction with Indian social reformer Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati(1858-1922).
Date:
1886-07-01 - 1888-05-07
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati
Description:
Typescript of an unsent letter from Emily Howland to Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati, an Indian social reformer and women's rights activist. Offers a brief sketch of Howland's early life as an abolitionist. Discusses her father Slocum Howland, her grandfather Joseph Tallcot, and one of her early teachers, likely Susannah Marriott. Explains the institution of slavery in the antebellum United States and the opposing abolitionist movement. Briefly discusses participating in the Underground Railroad. Discusses the establishment of the Miner School in Washington, D.C., and Howland's time teaching there. Relates an instance of Howland's students being harrassed by a gang of white men (for which see also A00186547). For one of Howland's other unfinished drafts of this story, see A00186549.
Date:
1888-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of Emily Howland. Discusses Isabel's voyage to Bermuda. Passes on news of friends and neighbors, including Mr. Prideaux's illness and Mrs. Brown's generosity in caring for him.
Date:
1927-12-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College