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Eliza H. Schofield and Mary H. Child letters to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Schofield and Mary H. Child letters to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Schofield and Mary H. Child were Martha Schofield's sister and mother, respectively. Discusses various Quaker meetings, as well as Cornelia Hancock's jibes about Schofield. Passes on news of friends and family, including Schofield's friends Chalkley and Sadie Bartram.
Date:
1870-04-24
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 writes that she is going to Philadelphia to tend to her sister Almira whose daughter was recently badly burned by scalding water. Her husband, Major William Stone, will not be going with her. She talks about her recent activities and shares that Cornelia Hancock came to Charleston but did not come to see her.
Date:
1870-01-30
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
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sarah J. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Sarah Ash was Martha Schofield's sister. She rebukes the recent "unchristian" conduct of Cornelia Hancock towards Schofield. She shares news about her family and discusses the books her son Howard is reading. She describes two recent murders in her area and says that there is a man set to be executed for one of them (the other murderer killed himself).
Date:
1869-04-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Title:
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Description:
Taken by Phillip Studio in Philadelphia. Depicts abolitionist and educator Cornelia Hancock with a small child.
Date:
1890-1927
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Title:
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Description:
Depicts educator Cornelia Hancock holding an umbrella.
Date:
1916
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchwood Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Hannah Letchwood Howland
Description:
Addressed to her sister-in-law. Relates details of travel to Philadelphia. Attended Ward Charity meeting with Cornelia Hancock at which the latter gave a report. Went to visit the "Historical rooms, at which she was shown the wampum belt given by the Lenape to William Penn.
Date:
1880-04-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield diary, 1869-1871
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1869-1871
Description:
Martha Schofield moved to South Carolina after the Civil War to run a school for African American children. Her diary describes her daily activities with a focus on her social life. Running themes include Schofield's deeply conflicted feelings over the engagement of her best friend Sarah "Sadie" Brouwer to Thomas Chalkley Bartram; her health problems involving her lungs, which she believed would be fatal; and the founding of what became the Schofield Normal and Industrial School. It also discusses her co-teacher Mary Taylor Stone and attending churches in Aiken. Entries are far less frequent after the end of 1869. Page numbers jump from 45 to 56. The last several pages contain records of Schofield's weight from 1871-1875 and an account of an examination by a Virginian phrenologist named Dr. Trotter in 1878.
Date:
1869-01-01 - 1871-03-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza H. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield; Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Eliza H. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield; Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Eliza Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister and Mary Child was their mother. Eliza Schofield asks Martha about her recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, and shares news about family and friends. Mary Child also shares news about family and friends. Both women allude to a situation involving Cornelia Hancock insulting Martha and a woman named Mary (likely Mary Taylor Stone). Of special note: Mary Child mentions attending a lecture and reading of "Moses" by its author, the African American author and activist Francis Ellen Watkins Harper.
Date:
1869-04-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Mary H. Child letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Mary Child was Martha Schofield's mother. She discusses Yearly Meeting and her recent visitors. She describes discussing Schofield's recent issues with Cornelia Hancock with one of her visitors. She also discusses Swarthmore College and the fundraising they have been doing for the school.
Date:
1869-05-16
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. She writes that she has been recently reading over old letters from Martha and reminiscing. She calls Cornelia Hancock's recent conduct towards Martha "unaccountable" and adds that she pities "such an unchristian spirit" but hopes her "wickedness does not make her unhappy." She also shares recent news concerning family and friends.
Date:
1869-04-04
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College