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1829 August 29, New York, to children
Title:
1829 August 29, to children
Date:
1829-08-29
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
August 19, to Chellie
Title:
August 19, to Chellie
Description:
Written on August 19th (uear unknown)
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1907 August 23, Jamestown, to My dearest Mother
Title:
1907 August 23, to My dearest Mother
Date:
1907-08-23
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1847 March 14, Providence, to Anna, Philadelphia
Title:
1847 March 14, Philadelphia
Date:
1847-03-14
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1908 June 6, Jamestown R.I., to Dear mother
Title:
1908 June 6, to Dear mother
Description:
Watermark reads, National Bond. "Brunswick" refers to the Brunswick Hotel in Boston.
Date:
1908-06-06
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1865 May 21, Baltimore, to Mother and sisters
Title:
1865 May 21, to Mother and sisters
Description:
Dated by archivist : [1865] Note in pencil at end of letter: “Rec’d package by E Carey but have not [---] [---] & dont know when I shall get the thing made.” Fairfield is the country home of Alfred Cope, father of Elizabeth Waln Cope, the bride “Lilly” mentioned in the letter. Fairfield was located on York Road near Olney Avenue. Elizabeth married Philip Cresson Garrett on May 18, 1865. (From Stokes’ Stokes Cope Emlen Evans Genealogy, cht. 3 and p. 39.) Federal Hill overlooks the city and harbor of Baltimore and is so named because of the celebrations held there in 1788 when Maryland ratified the Federal Constitution. (From Miller’s Baltimore Transitions: Views of an American City in Flux, p. 16.) The Copes’ home in Susquehanna is Woodbourne . The monument is probably the Washington Monument in Baltimore. Clemmy refers to it in an earlier letter. (Photograph scanned from Miller’s Baltimore Transitions: Views of an American City in Flux, p. 119.)
Date:
1865-05-21
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1836 August 14, Philadelphia, to Dear Henry
Title:
1836 August 14, to Dear Henry
Date:
1836-08-14
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Excelsior" diary, 1889
Description:
Wilbur wrote daily page-length entries describing events in detail, including her trips to Providence, New York, and Philadelphia. The memoranda at the end include a summary of the state of her health and her family, her finances for the year, and various facts, sayings, and literary extracts, including an abolitionist poem by James Russell Lowell and a quotation from Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Date:
1889
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
1904 August 13, Jamestown, R.I., to My dear mother
Title:
1904 August 13, to My dear mother
Date:
1904-08-13
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1840 August 25, Newport, to Alfred
Title:
1840 August 25, to Alfred
Description:
Written on August 25 & 26, 1840.
Date:
1840-08-25
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1845 November 14, Salem, to cousins, Providence
Title:
1845 November 14, Providence
Description:
Invitation to make a social visit to Chase home in Salem, Mass.
Date:
1845-11-14
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1905 August 22, North East Harbor, to My dear Chellie
Title:
1905 August 22, to My dear Chellie
Date:
1905-08-22
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1902 February 26, Boston, to Dearest Mother
Title:
1902 February 26, to Dearest Mother
Description:
Stationery bears emblem of The Brunswick, Copley Square, Boston, with "Herbert H. Barnes, Manager" underneath.
Date:
1902-02-26
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1839 June 8, Salem (Mass.), to My dear mother, Philadelphia (Pa.)
Title:
1839 June 8, Philadelphia (Pa.)
Date:
1839-06-08
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1841 April, to Frank, Philada.
Title:
1841 April, Philada.
Description:
Throughout the letter the author quotes liberally from other writers and sources. A partial list of identifications follows . “greatness sympathises with greatness”: essayist William Hazlitt, “The Indian Judges” “you can’t get a barrel of praties into a bushel basket”: aphorism, origin unknown “some are born to greatness, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them”: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night “Tantaene animis coelestibus irae?” [In heavenly minds can such resentments dwell?]: Virgil, The Aeneid “Memory is mortal forgiveness divine” [this is perhaps a restatement of “To err is human, to forgive divine”]: Alexander Pope, “Essay on Criticism” The Biblical admonition to “turn the other cheek” may be found in Matthew 5:38-40 . “cold obstruction” [in reference to death]: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure “Wellerism” [“a form of comparison in which a familiar saying or proverb is identified with what was said by someone in a specified but humorously inapposite situation” : from characters in Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers (definition from Oxford English Dictionary) “No man is a hero to his valet-de-chambre”: Marshal Catinat or Madame de Corneul The watermark is as follows : J Whitman Turkey Mill 1839 On the last page of the letter, the following text is written in pencil, in another hand, probably that of E.S.C.: 2 letters of Chas. Tabor to Francis R. Cope - 1841 (F.R.C. aged 20 - C.T. about same age - ) C.T. had published in “L’Entreprise”, a seranade written by F.R.C. When advised of the theft F.R.C. sends another poem entitled the “Thief.” For a description of many of the geographic locations mentioned in the letter, see Newport and How to See It (Newport: Davis & Pitman, 1869) . A “fippenny bit” is a corruption of “five-penny bit, ” a Spanish coin worth half a real or 6.25 cents. It was called fourpence in New England, fip in Pennsylvania, sixpence in New York, and a picayune in Louisiana. (Webster’s Dictionary)
Date:
1841-04-01
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1854 February 28, Providence, to Clemmy
Title:
1854 February 28, to Clemmy
Date:
1854-02-28
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1905 September 16, Jamestown, to Dearest Mother
Title:
1905 September 16, to Dearest Mother
Date:
1906-09-16
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1888 June 26, Philadelphia, to My Dearest Wife
Title:
1888 June 26, to My Dearest Wife
Date:
1888-06-26
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1901 September 5, Fowlers' Rocks, to My darling Chellie
Title:
1901 September 5, Fowlers' Rocks, to My darling Chellie
Date:
1901-09-05
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1853 November 6, Providence, to Clemie
Title:
1853 November 6, to Clemie
Date:
1853-11-06
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers

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