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John Seymour Wood letter to John Russell Taber
Title:
John Seymour Wood letter to John Russell Taber
Description:
Confirms receipt of a check; offers services as lawyer.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Ada J. Dauman letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Ada J. Dauman letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Written on behalf of the Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity by district superintendent Ada J. Dauman. Discusses a woman named Virginia Hart, calling her a "professional beggar" and saying her ability to "beg rent" "dragged down" her young daughter. Discourages White from giving her any further money.
Date:
1904-07-23
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Description:
In response to White's inquiries, reports favorably on the Richard Carroll Industrial School in Columbia, South Carolina, and less favorably on the Jenkintown Industrial School.
Date:
1904-07-18
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Responds to White's questions about the reputability of several charities she was considering donating to. Recommends the Richard Carroll Industrial School in Columbia, South Carolina, as well as the Gwynedd Home for Convalescent Children in Gwynedd, Pennsylvania. Gives a "mixed statement" on the Salvation Army in Philadelphia, and requests more information on Mr. Gayle of Sumter, South Carolina.
Date:
1904-09-24
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Written by assistant secretary Helen Foss. Informs White that the Society had yet succeeded in finding information on several schools White was considering giving money to. See mc1166_11_04_11 and mc1166_11_04_12 for the Society's eventual conclusions.
Date:
1904-06-29
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Written by assistant secretary Helen Foss. Gives White news of Virginia Hart, a woman whose requests for help paying rent had led White to ask the Society about her several month earlier. Says that the Society had arranged for the Society to Protect Children to take Hart's daughter into custody and for Hart to be committed to the mental hospital in Norristown on the suspicion that she had a drug problem. Asks White for help paying for Hart's treatment there.
Date:
1904-10-20
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
H. H. Chesbro letter
Title:
H. H. Chesbro letter
Description:
Addressed to "Mr. S. & P. Montgomery." Complains of a litigious man named Smallwood, likely Dr. John Jefferson Smallwood, to whom the author owed money. Accuses Smallwood of tricking Northerners for profit and advises the recipient on how to make good on a debt involving Smallwood and the author.
Date:
1897-08-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Allen Mosher letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Allen Mosher letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on the letterhead of the First National Bank by cashier Allen Mosher. Discusses Howland's financial affairs and business with the bank.
Date:
1896-01-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Allen Mosher letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Allen Mosher letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written on the letterhead of the First National Bank by cashier Allen Mosher. Discusses Howland's financial affairs and business with the bank.
Date:
1896-03-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Description:
Discusses her business affairs, which her nephew Herbert was taking care of for her while she was away from home, and gives news of Herbert's mother Hannah.
Date:
1898-04-18
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Description:
Discusses her travels. Asks her nephew Herbert to send the newspaper extracts of her letter (likely A00186212) about recent conferences at the Tuskegee Institute. Gives Herbert instructions for taking care of some business matters during Howland's absence, including how to open her safe.
Date:
1897-03-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Herbert S. Howland
Description:
Written from the Schofield School. Asks her nephew Herbert to take care of several business matters for her in case she does not reach home by April 1st.
Date:
1897-03-16
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
E. R. Roberts letters to Emily Howland, Jesse O. Thomas, and George W. Kelly
Title:
E. R. Roberts letters to Emily Howland, and George W. Kelly
Description:
Rev. E. R. Roberts was a board member of the Voorhees Industrial School and served as principal from 1918-1922. Roberts's letter to Howland informs her of recent actions taken by the board of the Voorhees Industrial School and explains the other enclosed correspondence. The letters to educator Jesse O. Thomas concern his resignation as principal of the Voorhees Industrial School. The letter to George W. Kelly argues that Thomas's "self-seeking" actions while principal threatened to "destroy the foundation of the school."
Date:
1918-07
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
John Brooks Leavitt letter to William E. Benson
Title:
John Brooks Leavitt letter to William E. Benson
Description:
Written by New York City attorney and reformer John Brooks Leavitt to African American educator and businessman William E. Benson. Discusses a dispute between Benson and Clarence H. Kelsey over the management of the Dixie Industrial Company, in which Leavitt held stock. Also includes Leavitt's legal opinion of an agreement between the Dixie Industrial Company and the Kowaliga School, of which Benson was president.
Date:
1915-03-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rebecca White letter to Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker
Title:
Rebecca White letter to Frederick St. George De Lautour Booth-Tucker
Description:
Declines investing in the Reliance Trading Company.
Date:
1903-01-13
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Charles Roberts letter
Title:
Charles Roberts letter
Description:
Written to Philadelphia's tax assessors by Charles Roberts in his capacity as attorney for his cousin Rebecca White. Discusses what White owed in taxes.
Date:
1887-11-17
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
R. Lee Hemmings letter to Rebecca White
Title:
R. Lee Hemmings letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Appeal for financial support from R. Lee Hemmings, principal and treasurer of the Virginia Seminary Orphan and Industrial School.
Date:
1903-12-30
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Asks for money to offset debts the Society incurred through the relief of the poor. Signed by Abel Smith.
Date:
1894-05-25
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Discusses a man named James Kirk, calling him a "chronic beggar" and accusing him of being "a fraud who aims to live upon the kindnesses of charitably inclined people."
Date:
1901-02-18
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Title:
Mary Ellen Richmond letter to Rebecca White
Description:
Written by charity director Mary Ellen Richmond. Thanks White for making a criticism directly to Richmond.
Date:
1901-02-19
Collection:
Rebecca White papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College

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