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Emily Howland letter draft to Frank Pierrepont Graves
Title:
Emily Howland letter draft to Frank Pierrepont Graves
Description:
Written to Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department. Thanks Graves for inviting her to receive an honorary doctorate, but declines on account of the travel required and her advanced age. Written on the back of a short typed note from H. J. Harby of Sumter, South Carolina, to the Lowry Institute and Industrial School of Mayesville, discussing a mortgage.
Date:
1926
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Irwin Esmond letter to Fred V. Lester
Title:
Irwin Esmond letter to Fred V. Lester
Description:
Written by Irwin Esmond, director and assistant counsel of the law division of the New York State Department of Education, to Fred V. Lester, a Department of Education superintendent in Locke, New York. Discusses the legal protocol for transferring the property of the Sherwood Select School from Emily Howland to the Department.
Date:
1926-04-01
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Wingate letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
James Wingate letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by James Wingate, a regent of the New York State Department of Education, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses a controversy over whether the Ledyard school district would be included in the "central rural school district" at Sherwood. Expresses gratitude for Emily Howland's contribution to education in the area.
Date:
1926-04-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses arrangements for the conferral of an honorary doctorate on Emily and asks for details of her career.
Date:
1926-07-10
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department. Apologizes for an error in a recent article about the Sherwood Select School, which the department was in the process of taking over from Howland. Asks for information on the school's history and congratulates Howland on the work she had done there.
Date:
1926-02-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department. Tells Howland that she will find the Board of Regents' action on the Sherwood Select School inside a copy of the Department's bulletin which Graves had enclosed.
Date:
1926-02-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Adelbert Moot letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Adelbert Moot letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Adelbert Moot, a member of the New York State Department of Education board of regents, which was in the process of taking over the Sherwood Select School long run by Howland. Thanks Howland for her letter and promises that he would read it to the board.
Date:
1926-02-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Fred V. Lester letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Fred V. Lester letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Fred V. Lester, a superintendent in the New York State Department of Education. Says he had enclosed two letters for Howland implying the Sherwood Select School had support in the state capital.
Date:
1926-01-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses school district boundaries. Asks after the health of Emily Howland and tells Isabel that the board of regents was interested in awarding Emily an honorary degree in October.
Date:
1926-04-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Thanks Isabel for information on Emily and discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Thanks Isabel for her instrumental role in getting Emily to travel to Albany in order to receive an honorary doctorate at the Department's convocation.
Date:
1926-11-09
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Expresses interest in publishing pictures of Emily Howland in her cap and gown in the Department's journal (Emily had recently been awarded an honorary doctorate by the State University).
Date:
1926-11-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Reasserts the board of regents' desire to award an honorary doctorate to Emily Howland and discusses the logistics of getting 99-year-old Emily to Albany for the ceremony. Lists previous recipients of the honor.
Date:
1926-06-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Title:
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Tells Isabel that the Department was interested in honoring Emily at their next university convocation. Asks if it would be possible for her to come and gives details of the event.
Date:
1927-05-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College