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Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends, notably Joseph and Mrs. Choate and a Miss Putnam (likely Mary Putnam Jacobi). Mentions "The Home" (the Isaac T. Hopper Home). Mentions that James B. Thayer was appointed as a professor of law at Harvard. Discusses the mistreatment of working-class communities/children by the "Commissioners": "The Island condemns the Commissioners and I hold them convicted of gross neglect and inhumanity." Discusses the upkeep of and donations to her organizations.
Date:
1873-12-30
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Julia is abroad and they miss each other. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends, including Joseph Choate, William Choate (possibly William Gardner Choate), and her husband James.
Date:
1870-02-15
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rosalie De Wolf Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Rosalie De Wolf Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
'Rosa" De Wolf Hopper was Abby's sister-in-law. Expresses concern that Abby and Sally are not receiving her letters. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends. Tells the story of the engagement of Josephine Shaw and Col. Charles Lowell.
Date:
1863-03-11
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to "Mary"
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to "Mary"
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Talks of family grieving over the death of her son William. Describes visiting her brother John Hopper and his wife Rosa when she gave birth to their son, Willie (William DeWolf Hopper).
Date:
1858-04-05
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Mentions Joseph Choate.
Date:
1869-08-03
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses travelling to Albany to receive government funding for her charities, the Infant Asylum and The Home (later the Isaac T. Hopper Home). Mentions aid from Joseph Choate. Less money was awarded to The Home, as the House Speaker did not have faith in "so called" sinners. Of the women associated with The Home, she says she will "stand by them long as I live." Discusses her daughter Julia's active involvement in the Diet Kitchen. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. James B. Thayer wrote her to announce the birth of another daughter.
Date:
1874-04-03
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends.
Date:
1886-12-27
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses socializing with politicians in Albany, lobbying for her charities. Mentions the help of Joseph Choate. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Praises her daughter Julia's interest in and activism for the Diet Kitchen.
Date:
1874-03-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Joseph Hodges Choate was a lawyer and diplomat. Thanks her for the gifts to his young son. Will tell his son when he's older about Abby's deceased son William Gibbons, who was one of Choate's peers.
Date:
1865-01-16
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Maria received word from Fanny [sp] that she is heartbroken over her mother's deteriorating health. Had Joseph Choate, Wilson Powell, Mr. Carter, and others over for tea yesterday. Suggests that Sally considers going to the School of Design.
Date:
1865-09-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Had tea with Joseph Choate and is going to [Greenwood?] with him and others. Discusses the mortgage and the will.
Date:
1865-05-15
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Theodore B. Bronson and E.C. Donnelly
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Theodore B. Bronson and E.C. Donnelly
Description:
Regarding the New York Infant Asylum, of which she was the Chairman of the House Committee. Gives a positive report of the Asylum and its finances.
Date:
1879-04-16
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Joseph Hodges Choate was a lawyer and diplomat. Wishes Gibbons a happy New Year, and encloses a ten dollar subscription to the Isaac T. Hopper Home, a shelter for women ex-convicts. Is willing to speak at the Hampton meeting but suggests that she find some new speakers.
Date:
1892-01-02
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Thanks Sally for her letter and Uncle Edward for his gift. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Mentions her visits to committees and institutions of social service. Is happy to hear that Sally is doing well and has "no feeling to hurry [her] home." Asks Sally to let her know if she should send more clothes, and tells her not to "ride and walk in [her] black silk." Mentions that she received a visit from the lawyer and diplomat Joseph H. Choate.
Date:
1856-05-03
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Hugh J. Grant
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Hugh J. Grant
Description:
Encourages Mayor Grant to re-appoint Mary Nash Agnew and Grace Hoadley Dodge to the New York City Board of Education.
Date:
1889-11-08
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Joseph H. Choate letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Joseph Hodges Choate was a lawyer and diplomat. Encloses a letter from Smyth for Abby to use to influence senators.
Date:
1889-04-06
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Susan B. Anthony letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Susan B. Anthony letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She requests that her secretary, Emma B. Sweet, be made a regular or alternate New York delegate to the Convention at Des Moines to help New York appear as strong as possible. Wishes that they had the power to prevent Joseph Choate from going to the US Senate; "I would rather have a henchman of Tammany than that lordly, aristocratic, wire-pulling, Constitutional-Convention President."
Date:
1896-12-26
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College