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Florence Gaylord Gifford postcard to Emily Howland
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Florence Gaylord Gifford postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Florence Gaylor Gifford, a friend of Howland's niece Isabel. Discusses vacationing in Maine. The back of the card bears a photograph of Shore Road in Sargentville, Maine.
Date:
1917-07-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to Emily Howand's friend Caroline F. Putnam, who ran the Holley School for African Americans in Virginia. Describes vacationing in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Discusses returning old letters. Notes the death of Robert Bowne Howland and reflects on his life. Discusses Howland's reading, including Thomas Mott Osborne's "Society and Prisons." Remarks on the legal difficulties of the Fallins. Asks Putnam not to destroy any old letters she might still have.
Date:
1916-08-23
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. Passes on news of friends and neighbors.
Date:
1921-08-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Isabel Howland postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Isabel Howland postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Signed "I." Likely written by Isabel Howland, women's rights activist and niece of Emily Howland. Briefly discusses vacationing in Maine with a number of other women. The back of the card bears a photograph of the beach at Byard Point in Sargentville, Maine.
Date:
1917-07-24
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Lydia King
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Lydia King
Description:
Fragment. Written to Lydia King, who was staying with Emily Howland's niece Isabel during a period of ill health. Says that Howland has been delayed from leaving Little Deer Isle because of a severe bout of rheumatism. Mentions her plan to visit her friend Caroline F. Putnam in Virginia, and gives a brief description of Putnam in her old age. Discusses King's health over the past year.
Date:
1916-10-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to Emily Howand's friend Caroline F. Putnam, who ran the Holley School for African Americans in Virginia. Remarks on rereading and returning old letters. Discusses her plans to visit Putnam. Says that her young great niece would stay in the cool weather of Maine as long as possible "to spare the child the dangers of infant paralysis." Asks if Putnam had access to a telephone.
Date:
1916-10-01
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 Dr. Kate Munhall, a mutual friend whose suitcase was lost in transit. Remarks on using an automobile. Passes on news from Agnes Tierney. Mentions a local nasturtium festival.
Date:
1918-08-27
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 sharing the use of an automobile with a friend. Passes on news of family and friends.
Date:
1918-08-29
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
May Slingluff postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
May Slingluff postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Narrates the author's travels. The back of the card depicts the Chicago Coliseum.
Date:
1916-08-26
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 the automobile Isabel was letting her use. Passes on news of friends and neighbors. Mentions that the Sherwood Select School was having difficulty finding teachers due to "work for the war and the government." Mentions several houses being moved. Asks after replacing a cistern.
Date:
1918-09-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Stanley Howard Murdock letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Stanley Howard Murdock letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Discusses the difficult financial situation Murdock had been left in by the outstanding debts of his recently deceased father Marcus Murdock.
Date:
1913-08-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland and Isabel Howland letters to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland and Isabel Howland letters to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written by reformer Emily Howland and her niece Isabel Howland to educator Caroline F. Putnam. Emily's letter discusses a recent attack of rheumatism that had prevented her from visiting Putnam as planned; it also passes on news of herself and her family. Isabel's letter discusses Emily's health and their disappointment at not being able to visit Putnam.
Date:
1916-10-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Virginia, while Howland was vacationing in Maine. Describes reading Miss Knapp's letter aloud to her family. Discusses her botanical interest in the flora of Maine. Reflects on her' and Putnam's old age (both women were in their late eighties). Remarks on a recent speech by Jane Addams and role of women in restoring order to the world after the end of the World War. Discusses Thomas Jefferson, who Howland had recently read a biography of.
Date:
1915-08-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Virginia, while Howland was vacationing in Maine. Discusses reading Emerson's poetry. Describes the effect of the World War on Paris, from where Howland's niece Edith had just returned. Discusses the suffrage activism of Howland's niece Isabel. Mentions a woman named Edith Smith who was studying at Cheyney University.
Date:
1914-08-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written on Emily Howand's 89th birthday to her friend Caroline F. Putnam, who ran the Holley School for African Americans in Virginia. Discusses the birthday celebration put on for Howland by her niece Isabel, apparently the first she had ever had. Remarks on Howland's disappointment over not being able to visit Putnam because of rheumatism. Discusses sightseeing in Boston and describes it as "the city of the soul." Thanks Putnam for a shipment of fruit. Says that Isabel Howland had gone to a suffrage convention in Albany; briefly discusses Isabel's recent suffrage work. Mentions returning old correspondence. Mentions the re-election of Woodrow Wilson.
Date:
1916-11-20
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. Gives news of friends and neighbors, including Helen Judson, and encourages Isabel to stay on Little Deer Isle, Maine, as long as she might want.
Date:
1921-10-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College