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Martha Schofield letter to Eliza H. Schofield
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Eliza H. Schofield
Description:
Eliza Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. Martha writes about giving marriage advice to the young bride of a friend, which she says she enjoys doing. She discusses attending a convention with her former student Alfred Nicholson where she spoke about temperance and helped settle a dispute. She also praises Nicholson's speech. She expresses her desire to have a woman doctor and is hopeful after getting a letter from a woman who just graduated from "Boston Medical School."
Date:
1882-07-11
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Eliza Schofield diary and notebook, 1853-1861
Title:
Eliza Schofield diary and notebook, 1853-1861
Description:
Diary of Eliza Schofield, sister of Martha Schofield (a Quaker teacher who devoted her life to providing education for African Americans and founded the Schofield Normal and Industrial School in Aiken, South Carolina). Text is faded, damaged, and illegible in multiple places. Pages 66-73 were written back-to-front; the book may have been bound at a later date. Content is primarily copied quotes and literature extracts about love, but Eliza Schofield also recorded personal events. Discusses multiple individuals, including her sister Martha Schofield, Robert Purvis, Samuel Aaron, and Susan B. Anthony; mentions Martha and their mother attending a women's rights convention and Susan B. Anthony speaking on women's rights.
Date:
1853-1861
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield greeting family photographs
Title:
Martha Schofield greeting family photographs
Description:
Two photograph versions of Martha Schofield greeting her family in front of her home (Oakwald), taken by an unknown photographer. Note on the back of the second photograph written by Sarah Jane Ash to her son Henry C. Ash. Carriage occupants front row: William Rodenbach, Samuel Earl Ash, Jr., Eliza H. Schofield. Back row: Samuel Shinn Ash, Sarah Jane Ash, Mary Ash Jenkins. Martha Schofield stands by the carriage. Her butler Warren Smallwood leads the horses.
Date:
1897
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College