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Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Discusses her religious life, including her feelings at Quaker meetings and the people she heard speak there; her struggles against the temptations of "the evil one"; her visits to various people for spiritual purposes; and her increasingly strong urge to speak in meeting. Mentions being appointed to "treat with a young woman who had joined the Society of Shakers." Also discusses illnesses and major life events among her family and friends.
Date:
1827 - 1840
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
[Fragment] 1889 September 17
Title:
[Fragment] 1889 September 17
Description:
Fragment-- begins on page "3".
Date:
1889-09-17
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Mostly discusses Kite's religious life, including her inner spiritual feelings, impromptu sermons she gave, and Quaker meetings she attended.
Date:
1841 - 1849
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Account of Mary Kite's trip to visit the Quaker meetings in North Carolina with Pennock and Mary Passmore. Name on the cover is Edith Sharpless; the book possibly belonged to her before Mary Kite.
Date:
1851
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Julia Wilbur "Lady's Almanac", 1857
Title:
Julia Wilbur "Lady's Almanac", 1857
Description:
Wilbur wrote brief, one-line entries summarizing personally significant events for each day of the year on the "Memoranda" pages of the almanac (pages 19, 21, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45, 49, 53, 59, 63).
Date:
1857
Collection:
Julia Wilbur Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Passmore diary
Title:
Mary Passmore diary
Description:
Account of journey to and visits in North Carolina with Pennock Passmore and Mary Kite.
Date:
1851 - 1852
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Mostly discusses Kite's religious life, including her inner spiritual feelings, impromptu sermons she gave, and Quaker meetings she attended. Also mentions her poor health.
Date:
1850 - 1861
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Kite diary
Title:
Mary Kite diary
Description:
Mary Kite diary with entries dated approximately 1814-02-10 to 1827-08-20. Primarily records her personal/spiritual thoughts, attendance at Quaker Meetings, and the deaths of several friends and acquaintances. Briefly discusses her work as a teacher.
Date:
1814 - 1827
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Mary Anna Longstreth was Rebecca Collins's niece. Discusses reading material and personal journal entries that Collins shared with her. Shares news about herself, others, and recent events, including her participation in the Prison Committee.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Rachel Coope diary extracts
Title:
Rachel Coope diary extracts
Description:
Rachel Sharpless Coope and her husband Benjamin Coope (also spelled Cope in some sources) taught among the Seneca people in New York. These extracts from her diary, copied by her father Joshua Sharples shortly after her death and sent to her sister Martha Sharpless, are dated between 1805-12-23 and 1807-07-22 and discuss her religious life.
Date:
1807-08-21
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Title:
Mary Anna Longstreth letter to Rebecca Collins
Description:
Mary Anna Longstreth was Rebecca Collins's niece. Primarily discusses their ongoing correspondence during Collins's time abroad, as well as the health of Collins and various friends/family.
Collection:
Rebecca Singer Collins Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Susanna Kite Sharpless diary
Title:
Susanna Kite Sharpless diary
Description:
Chronicle of Susanna Kite Sharpless's trip to New York state with her father Thomas Kite and his second wife Edith Sharpless Kite.
Date:
1828
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Aaron Sharpless travel journal
Title:
Aaron Sharpless travel journal
Description:
Account of Sharpless's travels. Includes a list of his expenses while travelling. Many pages are blank.
Date:
1831 - 1845
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Martha Schofield diary, 1896
Title:
Martha Schofield diary, 1896
Description:
Diary of Martha Schofield recording her tour across the western United States.
Date:
1896
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield notes and letter extracts
Title:
Martha Schofield notes and letter extracts
Description:
Bound book containing handwritten letter extracts between Martha Schofield and others, including Gen. Robert K. Scott and Dr. Matilda A. Evans. Includes biographical notes, newspaper clippings, and a list of Christmas gifts. Letter extracts copied in 1910; notes and newspaper clippings range from 1861-1913.
Date:
1861-1913
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield list of presents, 1879-1914
Title:
Martha Schofield list of presents, 1879-1914
Description:
Primarily an inventory of gifts and supplies that Martha Schofield and the Schofield Normal and Industrial School received between 1858-1914. Loose papers enclosed within the journal include newspaper clippings, subscriptions, notes, and letters.
Date:
1878-1914
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
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1901-09-15 through 1902-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's visitors, family, and friends; her attendance of reform society meetings, including a large suffrage convention in Washington, D.C.; her financial and legal affairs; and the weather. Also records Howland's trip to Northumberland County, Virginia, where she visited African American schools, and her time visiting friends and attending lectures in Philadelphia.
Date:
1901-1902
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1902-06-11 through 1903-06-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include meetings of local clubs and reform societies, as well as the health of Howland's friend Mary Reed. Records Howland's time at the National American Woman Suffrage Association's 1903 convention in New Orleans and her subsequent visit to the Tuskegee Institute with Susan B. Anthony. Also records Howland's visits to several other African American schools in the South, including the Kowaliga School and the Schofield School in Aiken, as well as her attendance of several education conferences in April 1903.
Date:
1902-1903
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run from 1904-07-11 to 1905-04-10 and chronicle Howland's daily activities. Recurring themes include Howland's involvement with the Sherwood Select School, her visitors, reminiscences on her earlier life, her travels, the deaths of friends and relatives, and records of the temperature. Also discusses attending several conventions and returning to a school in Virginia that Howland started in the 1860s.
Date:
1904-1905
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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