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Isaac N. Rendall letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Isaac N. Rendall letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Isaac N. Rendall was president of Lincoln University. Discusses Martha Schofield's former student Lawrence Obanyon Posey, who had just arrived at Lincoln. Describes his religious condition and tells Schofield to continue encouraging him in his studies. Discusses William Woodruff, principal of Lincoln's preparatory department. Also discusses Allen A. Scott, another student of Schofield's, and summarizes what Schofield has said about his life. Says Scott is welcome at the university.
Date:
1870-02-19
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Written from Lincoln University. Lawrence Obanyon Posey was an African American man from Aiken, South Carolina, who studied at Martha Schofield's school in Aiken. Posey went on to study at Lincoln and Howard Universities, ultimately graduating from Howard's law school in 1882 as valedictorian. Mentions Allen A. Scott, another former student of Schofield's who studied at Lincoln, and Elizabeth Dorsey, a Quaker woman involved with Schofield's school. Discusses his studies and summer plans. Describes the planting of a class tree.
Date:
1871-05-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lawrence Obanyon Posey was an African-American student of Martha Schofield's who graduated from Howard University in 1882 as valedictorian of his class and became a lawyer. Tells Schofield about his studies. Says he is leaving university in Columbia because teaching pace is too slow and he is invested in getting into Howard University. Thanks Schofield for her friendship and support. Worries about how Elizabeth Dorsey, a major funder of the Schofield School, will react to his leaving university.
Date:
1875-04-13
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dennis F. Douglass letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Dennis F. Douglass letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Dennis F. Douglass was a student of Martha Schofield's who went on to study at the Hampton Institute, teach at the Schofield School, and serve as principle of the public school in Montezuma, Georgia. Discusses his studies at Hampton. Says he wants to pursue a career as a teacher. Describes the planned school commencement.
Date:
1876-02-20
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Allen A. Scott letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Allen A. Scott letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Allen A. Scott was a former student of Martha Schofield's who went on to attend Lincoln University. Reports that Lawrence Obanyon Posey, another former student of Schofield's, has been injured in a sports accident. Will probably stay at school over the spring break and look for work. Mentions joining the Presbyterian Church. Considers Schofield a friend and mother figure and seeks her guidance.
Date:
1871-03-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Schofield School photograph
Title:
Schofield School photograph
Description:
Photograph of Schofield School students and teachers in front of new building. Collection includes a 4 x 5 in negative (not scanned).
Date:
1882
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William Warren Woodruff letter to Elizabeth Dorsey
Title:
William Warren Woodruff letter to Elizabeth Dorsey
Description:
William Woodruff was the principal of Lincoln University's preparatory department; Elizabeth Dorsey was a funder of the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina. Discusses the price and logistics of having one of the Schofield School's students, Lawrence Obanyon Posey, attend Lincoln University.
Date:
1870-01-11
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Student letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Student letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Students wish Howland well and hope to see her soon. Letters signed by Virginia Laws, Harriet Laws, and Louisa Ball; note on accompanying envelope indicates these were students who had been at Howland's school for freedmen for less than four months.
Date:
1867-09-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
William Letchworth letter to Emily Howland
Title:
William Letchworth letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Letchworth, of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, writes to invite Howland to particpate in their 11th cenference in St. Louis in the fall of 1884. His proposed topic is the condition of African American children in the South.
Date:
1883-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cleopla Jones school report
Title:
Cleopla Jones school report
Description:
School report written by Cleopla Jones, a student at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C. Discusses taking a walk to gather flowers for botany class and visiting Oak Hill Cemetery.
Date:
1857-1859
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cleopla Jones school report
Title:
Cleopla Jones school report
Description:
School report in the form of a letter, written by a student at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C. Discusses the celebration of Christmas among enslaved people.
Date:
1857-1859
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline F. Putnam and students letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Caroline F. Putnam and students letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Written from Lottsburg by students at the freedman's school of Howland's friends Sallie Holley and Caroline F. Putnam. Putnam's letter at the start notes that the students wrote to Howland for their composition exercise. The students mostly wish Howland and her sick father well and offer brief descriptions of life in Lottsburg. List of students: Florence Bailey, Elizabeth Carter, Ellen Smith, Novela Middleton [sp], Pyramus Johnson, Fanny Nutt [sp], Matilda Ann Carter, Mary Ann Johnson, Lusanna [sp], William J. Middleton [sp], Henrietta Middleton, Henry Washington, Codar North [sp].
Date:
1870-02-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline F. Putnam letter fragment to Isabel Howland
Title:
Caroline F. Putnam letter fragment to Isabel Howland
Description:
Undated fragment from reformer Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Lottsburg, Virginia, to Isabel Howland, a suffragist and niece of Emily Howland. Discusses Putnam's students, who she was teaching to recite Charles Sumner's speeches on equality before the law. Comments on the freedmen's houses. Invites Howland to visit and discusses what she might do in Virginia.
Date:
1872
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen A. Logans school report
Title:
Ellen A. Logans school report
Description:
School report in the form of a letter. Written by Ellen A. Logans, a student at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls in Washington, D.C. Discusses the geography of Switzerland and tells the story of Swiss folk hero William Tell.
Date:
1858-06-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Ellen A. Logans school report
Title:
Ellen A. Logans school report
Description:
School report in the form of a letter to Emily Howland, written by a student at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls. Discusses the importance of patience and perseverance. Highlights the importance of these virtues to the work of Isaac Newton. Argues that they were key to freeing African Americans from slavery.
Date:
1858-12-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Henry Gadsden letter
Title:
Henry Gadsden letter
Description:
Henry Gadsden was a freedman who lived near Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and likely attended the Laing School. The letter is addressed to "Dear Friend." Discusses Gadsden's enthusiasm for temperance and gives a few details of his life.
Date:
1878-03-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Miner School student list
Title:
Miner School student list
Description:
List of students taught by Emily Howland at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls from October 1857 to June 1858.
Date:
1857-10-01 - 1858-06-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Montgomery Industrial School class photograph
Title:
Montgomery Industrial School class photograph
Description:
Shows the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls' class of 1915 in a grassy yard. From left to right, the students in the back row are: Annie Bullard, Cynthia Heriton Drake, Clifford Mae Delaney, Annie Pearl Balden, Clara Elizabeth Grant, and Orlean Louise Sullivan. Middle row: Willie Isabel Seals, Cornelia Taylor Spann, Ollie Annie Roper, Lilybel Ernestine Scott, Mary Ella Jackson, and Frances Anne Webb. Front row: Josephine Lee Parker, Gladys Louise Hamblin, Geraldine Juliet McKenzie, and Lillian Belle Wellington. The back of the photograph lists more biographical details for many of the students.
Date:
1914-1915
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Wormley school report
Title:
Mary Wormley school report
Description:
School report in the form of a letter, written by a student at Myrtilla Miner's Normal School for Colored Girls. Discusses the arrival of spring.
Date:
1857-1859
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Piney Woods School photograph
Title:
Piney Woods School photograph
Description:
Depicts Taylor Hall at the Piney Woods School with a large number of people standing in front of it. A note on the back explains that the hall was named after a freedman who gave the school's principal and founder Laurence C. Jones money to start the school.
Date:
1912
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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