Search results

Log in for more access

[
]
Searching as Anonymous (not verified)
3 items [showing 1 - 3]
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. Her household is in mourning after the recent death of her nephew, Lawrence Corbin. She and her other sister Almira, who is visiting them in Charleston after the death of her young daughter, plan to visit Schofield in Aiken next week.
Date:
1870-03-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary Taylor Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Taylor Stone taught with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina, from 1868 to 1869. She describes her recent activities which included traveling with some friends on a boat; she saw Cornelia Hancock on the same boat, but Hancock did not acknowledge her. She asks if Schofield will consider taking on at the Schofield School a friend of hers named Mary who is unhappy teaching in Mount Pleasant.
Date:
1870-03-20
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He is very sad over the death of his nephew Lawrence Corbin. He writes that he talked to Major Edward Deane, who told him that he will most likely be able to have a schoolhouse built on Schofield's lot of land. He adds that he will be glad to be of any further assistance to Schofield regarding the matter.
Date:
1870-03-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College