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Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses the romantic relationship between Abby Hopper Gibbons and her future husband James Sloan Gibbons.
Date:
1822-1833
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
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 seeing an Isaac T. Hopper who is planning to visit relatives in Duchess and Glen Cove.
Date:
1869-06-27
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her family
Description:
Says hello to her family. Jimmy Lowell, likely the brother of the Civil War nurse Anna Lowell, has died. Appears to be serving as an army nurse in Winchester. Will travel to Point Lookout, an army prison camp that holds Confederate soldiers and also serves as a place of dwelling for civilians and Union soldiers.
Date:
1862-07-18
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 recent news concerning family/friends. Sally is on a "pilgrimage." Her husband, James Sloan Gibbons, suspected Sally had malaria.
Date:
1883-08-05
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Description:
Has to deliver an announcement regarding a recent accusation that she is "hitched in to the Democratic party." Discusses recent news concerning family/friends.
Date:
1868-07-07
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Mentions that Robert Purvis and William Lloyd Garrison will be staying with her family next week.
Date:
1862-1863
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Description:
Possibly writes from Point Lookout or Washington, D.C., or while traveling by boat. "Tell thy father...not to write again to Washington while his wife is here." Says to soldiers, May you be found true, loyal men - and never return a slave to his master.
Date:
1862
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Discusses religion.
Date:
1865-03-24
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
George E. Baker letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
George E. Baker letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
George Ellis Baker was a writer, editor, and prison reformer, and worked in multiple governmental roles, such as private secretary for Senator William H. Seward. Discusses the appointment of Abby's husband James Sloan Gibbons as President of the Delaware Railroad. Discusses the ongoing reconstruction of Washington after the Civil War. Asks for the last report from the Home (later called the Isaac T. Hopper Home), a shelter for women ex-convicts.
Date:
1871-03-03
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses Abby's future husband James Sloan Gibbons and her own husband Jonathan Palmer. Also discusses Samuel Brown, the future husband of her sister Rachel. Mentions her brother Josiah Hopper.
Date:
1831-11-12
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses shopping for furniture with Abby's fiance James Sloan Gibbons.
Date:
1832-12-11
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons and Lucy Gibbons Morse
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons and Lucy Gibbons Morse
Description:
Is with a group of people in the Berkshires. Is reminded of her son Willie, who died while he was a student at Harvard in 1855.
Date:
1858-08-24
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:
Making plans.
Date:
1886-12-31
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 and home renovations.
Date:
1888-09-12
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 regarding her life.
Date:
1890-1892
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:
1889-12-13
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 the topic of health.
Date:
1889-07-11
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:
Things are busy at the house, with many people paying visits. Everyone misses Uncle John. Julia, Sally and Abby will all be at home for the summer.
Date:
1865-06-03
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 the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the health of Frederick Seward, the Assistant Secretary who was wounded during the assassination plot. Mr. Baker wrote to her of Mr. Seward, And believe me, all this terrible injury will not change his course of Christian kindness and justice to his and our enemies. Compares an exclamation of Mr. Seward's to something her husband, James Sloan Gibbons, would say. At the end of the letter, mentions a Charles, possibly Charles Gibbons.
Date:
1865-05-08
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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