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1839 March 12, Savannah, to Dear Father, Philadelphia
Title:
1839 March 12, Philadelphia
Date:
1839-03-12
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1911 May 5, Awbury, to My dear Lillie
Title:
1911 May 5, to My dear Lillie
Date:
1911-05-05
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1907 April 24, Ann Arbor, to My dear Annette
Title:
1907 April 24, to My dear Annette
Date:
1904-04-24
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1839 March 12, Charleston, to Dear Brother, Haverford College
Title:
1839 March 12, Haverford College
Date:
1839-03-12
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1856-11-08
Title:
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1856-11-08
Description:
Letter from Elihu Burritt regarding the Free Produce Movement. Particularly in reference to his peace and anti-slavery paper (The Citizen) and a farmer Burritt sent to the United States to begin a free labor cotton farm in the South (Charles Dowman). Image has been adjusted for readablity.
Date:
1856-11-08
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
1911 May 10, Awbury, to My dear Lillie
Title:
1911 May 10, to My dear Lillie
Date:
1911-05-10
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Screven House restaurant menu
Title:
Screven House restaurant menu
Description:
Day's menu for the Screven House restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, owned by T. S. Nickerson. Also includes a "traveler's guide" with information on transit to various cities. Handwritten notes say that Screven was visited on 6 April 1871 by Martha Schofield, Eliza H. Bell, Jennie Satterthwait, E. H. Bunting, and Jeannie R. Bunting, who went on to hear Lydia Thompson speak.
Date:
1871-04-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter draft to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter draft to Isabel Howland
Description:
Draft of a letter written, possibly to Howland's niece Isabel, while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with reformer Mary F. Eastman; for the finished letter, see A00186172. Discusses a spontaneous detour to Beaufort, South Carolina, where they saw a funeral led by the Vanderbilt Benevolent Association. Relates a conversation with the mayor of Beaufort about state politics and the local African American population. Mentions a friendly interaction between a Union and Confederate veteran and the fading of the "hating spirit" of sectional tensions. Discusses visiting Elizabeth Botume, head of an African American school, and her plans to retire. Mentions meeting Robert Smalls (mistakenly called Samuel Smalls). Relates the life-story of their carriage driver, whose wife had died of cancer. Mentions Miss Eastman's suffrage proselytization. Describes their time in Savannah, Georgia, where they visited the Chatham Academy and a school for African Americans. Asks the recipient to publish extracts of the letter.
Date:
1891-04-10
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, possibly to Howland's niece Isabel, while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with reformer Mary F. Eastman; see A00186171 for a draft. Discusses a spontaneous detour to Beaufort, South Carolina, where they saw a funeral led by the Vanderbilt Benevolent Association. Relates a conversation with the mayor of Beaufort about state politics and the local African American population. Mentions a friendly interaction between a Union and Confederate veteran and the fading of the "hating spirit" of sectional tensions. Discusses visiting Elizabeth Botume, head of an African American school, and her plans to retire. Mentions meeting Robert Smalls (mistakenly called Samuel Smalls). Relates the life-story of their carriage driver, whose wife had died of cancer. Mentions Miss Eastman's suffrage proselytization. Describes their time in Savannah, Georgia, where they visited the Chatham Academy and a school for African Americans.
Date:
1891-04-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1854-11-06
Title:
Letter to George Washington Taylor, 1854-11-06
Description:
Letter from Elihu Burritt regarding the Free Produce Movement. Particularly regarding the establishment of the first Free Produce Colony in the South. Image has been adjusted for readability.
Date:
1854-11-06
Collection:
Quakers and Slavery, Haverford College
Rebecca White travel journal
Title:
Rebecca White travel journal
Description:
Describes her trip to the South with Dr. Ann Preston, Anna E. Massey, & Elizabeth Carr.
Date:
1857-05
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Georgia. Discusses the hotel where White was staying, the sea voyage to Georgia, and the local plants.
Date:
1857-05-06
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter fragment
Title:
Rebecca White letter fragment
Description:
Undated fragment; probably written in 1857. Discusses traveling in Florida and Georgia and discussing slavery with Silvia, a chambermaid at White's hotel.
Date:
1857
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia. Discusses riding in a carriage and visiting Buonaventura Cemetery. Pays particular attention to the kinds of trees present in Savannah. Briefly comments on the state's economy and agriculture and mentions the institution of slavery.
Date:
1857-05-09
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Savannah, Georgia. Briefly reports on an interaction with an enslaved woman and on an African American religious meeting.
Date:
1857-05-10
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Georgia and Florida. Discusses their correspondence and household maintenance. Reports on her activities, including her interactions with an enslaver and an enslaved woman. Discusses whether various southerners inferred from White's use of plain speech that she was a Quaker.
Date:
1857-05-27
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Hannah White Richardson
Description:
Written by Rebecca White to her sister while vacationing in Georgia and Florida. Discusses her activities, including the collection of plant specimens.
Date:
1857-05-22
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Charles Waring letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Title:
Charles Waring letter to Beulah Hurley Waring
Description:
Brief letter congratulating Beulah Hurley Waring on her engagement/marriage to P. Alston Waring.
Date:
1928-09-04
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College