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1901 November 7, Coalbrookdale, to My dear Lilly
Title:
1901 November 7, to My dear Lilly
Description:
Place of origin printed on stationery.
Date:
1901-11-07
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1866 February 22, Petersburg, to Anna
Title:
1866 February 22, to Anna
Date:
1866-02-22
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Julia Wilbur letter to her sister, April 26, 1865
Title:
Julia Wilbur letter to her sister, 1865
Description:
Photocopy. Discusses the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the public reaction.
Date:
1865-04-26
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
1900 August 21, Awbury, Germantown, to Hannah Simpson My dear Friend, England
Title:
1900 August 21, England
Date:
1900-08-21
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1865 April 11, B[altimore], to Mother & sisters
Title:
1865 April 11, to Mother & sisters
Description:
May be missing pages in the middle.
Date:
1865-04-11
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her children
Description:
Possibly a letter fragment. Abby appears to be staying in the South for some time. She writes about the Civil War, on both personal and political levels. She discusses and compares the generals Frémont, McClellan and Burnside. Expresses concern about Jimmy Lowell, likely the brother of the Civil War nurse Anna Lowell.
Date:
1862-07-13
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to her sister
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to her sister
Description:
Possibly a draft; contains several edits and is unsigned. Martha Schofield writes about the opening ceremony of the Schofield School which occurred the day before. The school has a new principal, whose father was Abraham Lincoln's first cousin.
Date:
1887-10-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield commonplace book, 1858-1884
Title:
Martha Schofield commonplace book, 1858-1884
Description:
Journal of poems, quotes, and prose extracts by various authors, copied by Martha Schofield between 1858-1865. Also contains some newspaper clippings and a list of "assumed names." Includes content about abolition, capital punishment, and the death of Abraham Lincoln. Authors of excerpts include Francis D. Gage, Maria Townsend, Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Hannah Flagg Gould, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, among others. Also features writing by Martha Schofield's family, friends, and students. Pages 3, 139, 148, 150, 151, and 154 are blank and were not scanned.
Date:
1858-1884
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Marietta Ridgeway Kirk letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Marietta Ridgeway Kirk letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Marietta Ridgeway Kirk distant cousin of Martha Schofield's and was the sister of Oldden Ridgeway. Briefly comments on George Washington's birthday and Abraham Lincoln's upcoming inauguration.
Date:
1861-02-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Discusses the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, over which Schofield has been in deep mourning. Describes the funeral procession in Philadelphia, the viewing held in City Hall, and a funeral oration by Miss Emma Hardings.
Date:
1865-04-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott provides her sister with news of family and friends, including several Quakers she knows who are serving as soldiers during the Civil War. She expresses a negative opinion of Abraham Lincoln and describes the funeral of Henry Grew.
Date:
1862-08-17
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Eliza Wright Osborne
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and Eliza Wright Osborne
Description:
In addition to discussing recent news of family and friends, Mott talks briefly about secession, quotes and discusses a relative's remarks in favor of compensated emancipation, gives her opinions of Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address from an antislavery perspective, and quotes some comments on it from "The Bugle" and the "Principia." She also discusses Caroline Stratton's divorce and the illnesses of various children in the family. Written from Roadside. ********** "When Lincoln and Seward and very many of the Republicans promise, or express a willingness, to strengthen the pro-Slavery parts of the Constitution and to yield the claim to rob and murder by thousands--an infinitely greater number, than in any probably war, might be slain--then 'the sacrifice of a few lives, ' in resisting such iniquitous provisions, may be a question."
Date:
1861-03-19
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott discusses the collective reaction to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln on April 15 and passes on other news of friends and family. She describes an incident in which her husband, James Mott, fell and injured himself. Mott also conveys sympathy for Frances Adeline Seward, whose husband and children had recently been injured in an assassination attempt.
Date:
1865-04-17
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Graceanna Lewis letter to Linnaeus Fussell
Title:
Graceanna Lewis letter to Linnaeus Fussell
Description:
Linnaeus Fussell was Graceanna Lewis' nephew. Lewis attempts to dissuade him from enlisting as a soldier in the Civil War. Though Lewis agrees that fighting for freedom would be brave and noble, she believes that Fussell would do more good if he joined her in generating anti-slavery sentiment to pressure Abraham Lincoln and the border states into declaring emancipation. She also points out that some Northern military commanders are pro-slavery, like one in cousin Joshua Fussell's regiment.
Date:
1862-07-25
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
George Luther Stearns letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
George Luther Stearns letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
George Luther Stearns was an abolitionist and recruiter of black soldiers for the Union Army during the Civil War. The letter discusses the recent death of Gibbons's brother John Hopper. Mentions Stearns' efforts to help Maria R. Mann's school. Talks about politics, antislavery, and Abraham Lincoln's ruthless ambition.
Date:
1864-07-31
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 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
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Wants to know where Sally is and when she will return home. Mentions visits from people including Joseph Choate and Sarah and James Thayer. Discusses how those involved in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and attempted assassination of his colleagues are being sentenced, and states, I never would give my voice in favor of any capital punishment but in this case would not dare to raise my voice against it. There seems to be a mention of the journalist Parke Godwin ("she goes to Parke Godwin by invitation").
Date:
1865-07-08
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Martha Schofield diary, 1864-1865
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1864-1865
Description:
Diary of Martha Schofield, with entries from July 1, 1864 to October 5, 1865. Schofield later added a few notes in pencil, dated 1914. Loose papers within the diary have been scanned at the end. Records her daily life, including her personal relationships and work as a teacher. Frequently discusses the Civil War and covers the death of Abraham Lincoln in detail. Attended a lecture Anna E. Dickinson (1865-05-04) about women. The diary concludes upon Schofield's move to South Carolina, where she was appointed to teach African Americans by the Pennsylvania Freedmen's Relief Association.
Date:
1864-07-01 - 1865-10-05
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. Clinton Wagner letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons.
Title:
Dr. Clinton Wagner letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons.
Description:
Written from a camp near Falmouth. Has arrived safely to serve as Medical Director of the division under Major General Sykes. Discusses events at the camp and considers his division to be the "Flower of the Army." The President, Secretary of War, and General Halleck visited the Army. Mentions Dr. John Stearns. Requests news from the hospital in Point Lookout, Maryland, and a copy of the Gazette. Thanks her for the book that he gave to his sister Rose Wagner.
Date:
1863-04-19
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abraham Lincoln
Title:
Abraham Lincoln
Description:
Written on back: Published by E. Anthony, 501 Broadway, New York. From Photographic Negative, from Brady's National Portrait Gallery.; From a Photograph album dating from the 1860s. Included are primarily photographs relating to Haverford College, at least some by the Philadelphia studio of F. Gutekunst -- of individual students, student groups, student athletic groups, buildings -- but also one of Abraham Lincoln by the (Mathew) Brady studio, views from abroad and an unindentified woman. Mostly albumen, some tintypes.
Date:
(approximate)1865
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers