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Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchworth Howland
Description:
Recounts to her sister in law a string of visitors, including a Mrs. Cheney. Her beloved dog Grant got sick and was euthanized; arrangements to send the dog's brain to Dr. Burt G. Wilder at Cornell. The school at Auburn will receive a new roof. News on area property transactions. Difficulties staffing schools.
Date:
1882-09-11
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:
Addressed to "My dear friend"; likely to Caroline F. Putnam. Unsigned. Offers the recipient advice on traveling in Europe. Discusses Abraham Keralla, a young Syrian Quaker named staying with Howland who was pursuing a medical education in the U.S. after coming to the country for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Date:
1896-04-21
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:
Discusses Putnam's recent trip to Europe. Remarks on the speed of transportation, saying "what an age this is for conquering space, and the promise of the future transcends the imagination." Comments on the presidential campaign, calling it the the most remarkable Howland had ever lived through.
Date:
1896-10-25
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Margaret Jones Burleigh letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Margaret Jones Burleigh letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Discusses the ability of letters and poetry to offer encouragement. Quotes a poem; mentions Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning.
Date:
1872-01-09
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:
Undated letter to Isabel Howland, a suffragist and niece of Emily Howland. Passes on news of family and friends, including the sickness of Hepsibeth Hussey, the death of Elizabeth Child's mother, and the death of Sarah Halleck. Discusses fundraising by the women's suffrage movement.
Date:
1906-1908
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
She has just received a letter returned that she had mailed to Abby some time ago and encloses it with an additional letter. Is disappointed she missed Abby's visit to the contraband camp ("Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines). Is currently at home with family but will be traveling back to the camp soon. Sends congratulations to to Abby's daughter Sally on her marriage to William Emerson.
Date:
1863-12-05
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Student letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Student letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Students wish Howland well and hope to see her soon. Letters signed by Virginia Laws, Harriet Laws, and Louisa Ball; note on accompanying envelope indicates these were students who had been at Howland's school for freedmen for less than four months.
Date:
1867-09-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William R. Dudley letter to Emily Howland
Title:
William R. Dudley letter to Emily Howland
Description:
William Russel Dudley was a botanist who taught at Cornell University at the time of this letter. Identifies a plant specimen that Howland sent him, which he describes in detail, and enquires about the origins of another sample he does not recognize.
Date:
1876-06-28
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William Penn Howland letter to Emily Howland
Title:
William Penn Howland letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Emily Howland's cousin William Penn Howland, whose wife Cornelia had recently died. Says that he has enclosed a mat for Emily that Cornelia had begun working on shortly before her death. Mentions that William Penn had not received any money from Emily in several months.
Date:
1898-12-20
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice Stone Blackwell postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Alice Stone Blackwell, a suffragist and human rights activist. Discusses news about her Aunt Nettie and expresses gladness that Howland is a voter. The back of the postcard features an image of the United States Capitol.
Date:
1917-1919
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Undated fragment from educator Elizabeth Palmer Peabody. Praises Maria R. Mann, a young teacher related to Peabody, and advocates for her appointment to a normal school for freedmen. Discusses paying the teacher's salary and the finances of the school.
Date:
1862-1867
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edith Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Edith Morgan letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Undated. Accepts an invitation to an event at the Sherwood Select School. Describes a school play Morgan had recently attended.
Date:
1893-1929
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1901-09-15 through 1902-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's visitors, family, and friends; her attendance of reform society meetings, including a large suffrage convention in Washington, D.C.; her financial and legal affairs; and the weather. Also records Howland's trip to Northumberland County, Virginia, where she visited African American schools, and her time visiting friends and attending lectures in Philadelphia.
Date:
1901-1902
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1902-06-11 through 1903-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include meetings of local clubs and reform societies, as well as the health of Howland's friend Mary Reed. Records Howland's time at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1903 convention in New Orleans and her subsequent visit to the Tuskegee Institute with Susan B. Anthony. Also records Howland's visits to several other African American schools in the South, including the Kowaliga School and the Schofield School in Aiken, as well as her attendance of several education conferences in April 1903.
Date:
1902-1903
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1904-07-11 to 1905-04-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's involvement with the Sherwood Select School, her visitors, reminiscences on her earlier life, her travels, the deaths of friends and relatives, and records of the temperature. Also discusses attending several conventions and returning to a school in Virginia that Howland started in the 1860s.
Date:
1904-1905
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
1913 Wanamaker Diary filled out for 1918 by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on (including the diary pages for most of November and December) have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning for a list of the printed contents. Entries chronicle Howland's daily activities, with a focus on her social calls, health, and letters sent and received. They also periodically discuss her involvement with the Sherwood Select School and other causes. Howland's niece Isabel Howland is mentioned often.
Date:
1918
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Wanamaker Diary filled out by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning and end for a list of the printed contents. Diary entries chronicle Howland's daily activities.
Date:
1920
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Wanamaker Diary filled out by Howland. Most pages which Howland did not write on have not been scanned; see the indices at the beginning and end for a list of the printed contents. Diary entries chronicle Howland's daily activities.
Date:
1921
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
The book primarily contains diary entries by Emily Howland, chronicling her daily life from 1873-03-12 to 1873-08-20. It also includes miscellaneous accounts written in pencil, possibly written by Edward Strange and dated approximately 1871.
Date:
1871-1873
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Primarily contains short diary entries by Emily Howland chronicling her daily activities. Howland filled out the printed spaces for November 19 to December 31 in 1877, filled out the rest of the printed spaces over the course of 1878, and added entries for the last month-and-a-half of 1878 in the back of the book. Includes miscellaneous memoranda and sporadic financial records dating from 1878 to 1884-04-28.
Date:
1877-1878
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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