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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 and upcoming visiting plans. Mentions a friend who donated funds to three of Abby Hopper Gibbons' organizations: the Infant Asylum, the Isaac T. Hopper Home, and the Diet Kitchen. Also mentions government funding and that the "panic" of illness - likely cholera - has become less intense.
Date:
1873-09-26
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, 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 Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Also addresses money. Sally is abroad. Possibly "visited the Shakers."
Date:
1873-09-12
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. Receives a letter from Mary Choate. Sally seems to be travelling abroad and is currently in Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Date:
1873-08-28
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. Mentions fundraising for the Infant Asylum. Has contacted the Commissioner/officials to discuss her problems with their policies.
Date:
1874-01-16
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:
The President's health is not improving, but the surgeon Frank Hastings Hamilton is set to operate on him, and Abby hopes Hamilton will be able to improve his condition. Discusses upcoming plans and recent news concerning family/friends. Mentions "Beverly Beach, possibly a location at Beverly Farms, Massachusetts. Julia attended a Temperance meeting. Mentions a General Howland, possibly Joseph Howland.
Date:
1881-07-24
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:
Has been traveling; just left Wilmington and is on her way to Greenwood. Date looks like "1880, but appears to be addressed to Sally as a child, and Sally has marked it 1850" on the back of the letter. Envelope addressed to James Sloan Gibbons at Ocean Bank in New York. Says "Give my love to Grandfather"- possibly Isaac T. Hopper.
Date:
1850-07-18
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 mail.
Date:
1881-07-01
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. "Mayor Grace has left the city." Mentions the White Mountains, possibly in New Hampshire: "Happy letters come from thee - and the White Mountains."
Date:
1882-07-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott writes about recent visitors that she has had and implores her daughter, Martha, to come visit soon. She talks about James Gibbons who is suffering from some health issues. She also mentions the recent illness of William Lloyd Garrison. Expresses her approval of Ulysses S. Grant and the Fifteenth Amendment.
Date:
1869-03-05
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, 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, including about recent appointments to positions in the Health Department and other appointments.
Date:
1873-07-04
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. Discusses her work at the "Asylum" and says, We took in our first colored baby, although Mrs. Garrison expressed a hope that we would never get so low as that–no one had the courage to ask a white mother to take it–I do not care what the color is, if I can do it any good. Briefly discusses work "with our Home sisters" from the Isaac T. Hopper Home and the fact that Julia is getting ready to go to Beverly.
Date:
1873-07-18
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:
'This is the Philosopher's last day in this region." Mentions a Mrs. Emerson. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Mentions The Home (later the Isaac T. Hopper Home), a shelter for women ex-convicts, in a conversation with a friend, possibly as a resource for a place he can get his clothes mended, or that can teach him how to mend clothes.
Date:
1870-11-09
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:
Includes a newspaper clipping of an article written by Julia - a review of a German primer. There is an upcoming election. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends, especially the illness of a friend. Mentions "the Philosopher, Sally Thayer, and a General Van Allen.
Date:
1870-10-31
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, particularly people's health.
Date:
1880-07-11
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Maria Hopper letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Maria Hopper was Abby's niece. Talks about the passing of James Gibbons (Abby's husband) and mentions that Lucy made all the arrangements for the service.
Date:
1892-10-21
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria Hopper letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Title:
Maria Hopper letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Description:
Maria Hopper was Abby's niece. Details her travels throughout Europe and looks forward to James arriving in Paris soon.
Date:
1869-09-03
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 and the state of the house.
Date:
1883-07-17
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 visiting plans. Mentions Mary Dewey, potentially the biographer Mary E. Dewey. Mentions Rockaway as a location.
Date:
1882-07-24
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Sloan Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
James Sloan Gibbons letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Says that James Sloane Gibbons misses Abby Hopper Gibbons and is sad that she has not sent him a letter recently. Implies that he is staying somewhere away from home with their daughter Sally.
Date:
1834-1855
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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