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Mary Kite letter to her nieces and nephews
Title:
Mary Kite letter to her nieces and nephews
Description:
Written while minister Mary Kite was visiting Quaker meetings in the Southern states. Discusses her travels south through Maryland and Virginia, including the landscape, people she met along the way, natural resources, and local customs.
Date:
1851-09-12
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Description:
Possibly a letter fragment. Abby appears to be staying in the South for some time. She writes about the Civil War, on both personal and political levels. She discusses and compares the generals Frémont, McClellan and Burnside. Expresses concern about Jimmy Lowell, likely the brother of the Civil War nurse Anna Lowell.
Date:
1862-07-13
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was a prominent American educator. Discusses Maria R. Mann and her struggles against racist attitudes to establish a school for African Americans.
Date:
1863-1870
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Discusses her visit to Harpers Ferry, including observations on the area's geology and history.
Date:
1866-07-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Excerpts from John Ketcham's letters to his mother
Title:
Excerpts from John Ketcham's letters to his mother
Description:
Lieutenant John T. Ketcham was a Quaker soldier in the 4th New York Cavalry. Discusses multiple subjects, including the death of his brother Lt. Edward H. Ketcham at Gettysburg and John Brown. Expresses passionate patriotic and abolitionist sentiments.
Date:
1863
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rebecca White journal
Title:
Rebecca White journal
Description:
Records White's trip "on a tour to the South and West" with her father Josiah White and sister Hannah White Richardson. The largest part of the journal concerns travel in Virginia and West Virginia, but the full route ran to Washington via Baltimore, then through Virginia and West Virginia to Huntington via Harpers Ferry, along the Ohio River to Cincinnati and Louisville, overland across Kentucky through Lexington, back along the Ohio River to Pittsburgh, and overland to Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Passages throughout the journal pay attention to the state of settlement and "improvement" of the land they passed through, as well as its natural resources, geology, and fitness for farming. Other themes include railroads and canals, as well as occasional observations on the "blighting effects of slavery" on the "spirit of enterprise" of Virginia and Kentucky's white inhabitants. Incidents of particular interest include an account of hearing Congress's debates on the Fortification Bill; lengthy descriptions of several famous geological formations in Virginia, including the Grand Caverns at Weyers Cave, the Natural Bridge, and a number of hot springs; a brief biography of a free African American man who the travelers hired to drive them from Louisville to Frankfort; and a brief meeting with Joseph Ritner, governor of Pennsylvania, in Harrisburg.
Date:
1836
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White, Hannah White Richardson, and Josiah White letter to Elizabeth White
Title:
Rebecca White, and Josiah White letter to Elizabeth White
Description:
Letter to Elizabeth White from her daughters Rebecca and Hannah and her husband Josiah. Discusses the group's journey from Washington, D.C., to Harpers Ferry via canal, including a visit to the falls of the Potomac. Discusses the tans and sunburns they had acquired.
Date:
1836-05-25
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College