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Graceanna Lewis and Mariann Lewis letter to Edwin Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis and Mariann Lewis letter to Edwin Fussell
Description:
Edwin Fussell was Graceanna Lewis's cousin who married her sister, Rebecca Lewis Fussell. Lewis writes about her family, including her sister Rebecca, Aunt Rebecca, Grandfather, and Grandmother. The second part of the letter is written by her sister Mariann who talks about how Lucretia Mott had an appointed Meeting at Charlestown and Valley Meeting and mentions her studies, including French, exposition, and botany.
Date:
1836-10-16
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis and Rebecca Lewis Fussell letter to Linnaeus Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis and Rebecca Lewis Fussell letter to Linnaeus Fussell
Description:
Linnaeus Fussell was the son of Graceanna Lewis' sister, Rebecca Lewis Fussell. They ask him about his time in the military, the health of the men with him, and how well he is supplied to care for them. Both deplore the military logistics that have left him insufficiently supplied. Lewis discusses a group of women in Phoenixville working to bring aid to Union soldiers and briefly mentions goings-on at the farm. Fussell talks about a new-born relative and the draft in their hometown.
Date:
1863-07-19
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Esther Fussell Lewis
Description:
Esther Fussell Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' mother. Lewis's relative Edwin Fussell will be passing through York and West Vincent on his way to a gathering of Friends. The school in York has attracted more students, and a Cambridge graduate recently passed through town.
Date:
1843-04-09
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She asks whether the light shines within Townsend. She describes a trip to her uncle Joseph Fussell's house. While there she met Mary Grew and Margaret Jones and discussed with them the merits of a series of children's books (presumably on antislavery) as opposed to a paper. Lewis has found several anecdotes illustrating peace principles.
Date:
1845-07-11
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She thanks Townsend for the books she sent for Lewis's sister, who is recovering from an illness. She discusses the virtues of a man named C.M.B. (most likely Cyrus Moses Burleigh) and says she gave him a picture of Townsend. She also touches on the idea of universal love and her worry that her activism stems from love of right rather than love of man. Lewis alludes to the fact that Townsend is going to an antislavery meeting. She says that Libby has started her school, expresses her satisfaction at her family having hired a girl she finds satisfactory at her work. She also uses electricity in a metaphor.
Date:
1845-12-17
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Lewis recently attended an antislavery meeting where Elijah Pennypacker, her brother-in-law Edwin Fussell, and a Baptist minister named John Collins discussed communal living and its relationship to progress; the letter summarizes their positions. "Miss Abby" (likely Abby Kimber) was also there. Lewis discusses ideas of morality and religion; she also mentions attending a meeting of the Royal Spring Temperance Society and an anti-tobacco pledge that has been circulating.
Date:
1846-02-10
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Lewis discusses the details of selling Sunnyside, the family farm. She does not think she will get the position at Vassar College that she applied to; she believes that they would prefer to hire a man, even though she has gotten references from several scientists. She mentions that her cousin Susan Fussell is working with children in poorhouses and alludes to the financial difficulties she and Fussell have experienced.
Date:
1878-01-25
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Most of the letter recounts the process of moving out of the family farm of Sunnyside and describes Lewis' new house in Chester Springs. Parts of the house are temporarily being used as a school by "Adie" (likely their cousin Ada Fussell). Lewis also discusses her financial situation and a recent piece in the Woman's Journal.
Date:
1878-02-24
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Fussell's son Robert Fussell is dangerously ill, and Lewis is worried about him. She tells of a previous illness of his and how she tried to impart strength to him through physical contact. Hannah Wright Mifflin has come to visit. Lewis also discusses her hired help on the family farm (Sunnyside), which she is considering passing on to Hannah Wright Mifflin and Samuel Mifflin.
Date:
1876-07-05
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Lewis writes that she wrote an article that will be published in the "New Century." She discusses her farm and the birds and plants there, and says she has written to Andrew Dickson White at Cornell, who is chairing a committee that will judge her scientific charts. She also discusses a recent Peace Congress involving Julia Ward Howe, who she speaks very fondly of, and mentions "dear Lucretia Mott."
Date:
1876-07-16
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister. Lewis describes the work that has been done and that will be done to the family farm, Sunnyside.
Date:
1876-05-29
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Mary Townsend
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. Lewis writes that she has visited Edwin Fussell's "dwelling." She also says they have a community of black birds that greet them every spring. She has enclosed some moss with the letter for "Lizzie" to put in her flower pot to make the earth moist and look pretty.
Date:
1842-1843
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Alice Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Alice Fussell
Description:
Alice Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' great-niece. Lewis tells 7-year-old Alice about God's gifts, offers to give her and her brother Robert Fussell a pair of rabbits, and says she will move to Media, Pennsylvania, in a month.
Date:
1877-11-07
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Alice Fussell and Robert Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Alice Fussell and Robert Fussell
Description:
Alice and Robert Fussell were Graceanna Lewis' great-niece and great-nephew, respectively. Lewis writes extensively about her chickens and says that she has some rabbits for the kids.
Date:
1878-01-02
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mariann Lewis letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Mariann Lewis letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Mariann Lewis was Graceanna Lewis' sister. She recounts various goings-on in the family, including their mother's difficulty walking, their cousin Esther Ann Jacobs' pregnancy, someone named Aaron's escape from Blockley Asylum, and their sister Elizabeth "Libby" Lewis' schooling. She also mentions attending an antislavery picnic in Kennett, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1843-08-09
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mariann Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Title:
Mariann Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell
Description:
Mariann Lewis and Rebecca Lewis Fussell were Graceanna Lewis' sisters. Lewis writes that family members are on their way to Yearly Meeting. She adds that the school in York is doing well and there has been temperance activism lately.
Date:
1843-05-14
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joseph Fussell letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Joseph Fussell letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Joseph Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' cousin. Offers to lend books to Lewis; describes the value of good books and the role of reading in (Quaker) life. Relates that he wrote to Dr. Pliny Earle about patients in the asylum whose diseases the physicians said were "anxiety about religion." Describes Earle's response, the shapes of the patients' skulls, and phrenology and its relationship to fatalism.
Date:
1842-09-28
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Robert Fussell and Alice Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Robert Fussell and Alice Fussell
Description:
Alice and Robert Fussell were Graceanna Lewis' great-niece and great-nephew, respectively. Lewis tells them about various birds and plants around her, especially a singing brown thrush. Once Alice can write well enough to sign her name to the temperance pledge, Lewis wants her to send her a letter.
Date:
1877-04-30
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Robert Fussell and Alice Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Robert Fussell and Alice Fussell
Description:
Alice and Robert Fussell were Graceanna Lewis' great-niece and great-nephew, respectively. Lewis writes to them shortly after they paid her a visit. The first half of the letter gives details about her daily life and the plants and animals around her house. The second half discusses birds.
Date:
1877-1878
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell and Edwin Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Rebecca Lewis Fussell and Edwin Fussell
Description:
Rebecca Lewis Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' sister; Edwin Fussell was Rebecca Lewis Fussell's husband. Lewis offers them condolences after the death of their daughter Emma Jane Fussell. She has sent obituary notices to several abolitionist newspapers.
Date:
1862-08-21
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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