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Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Palmer
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Palmer
Description:
Discusses German immigrants as domestic servants, the health of Gibbons's two-year-old daughter Lucy and her fresh air regimen, and Quaker politics involving John Comly.
Date:
1841-08-16
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Margaret Murray Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Margaret Murray Washington letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Margaret Murray Washington was the principal of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, which later became Tuskegee University, and was the third wife of Booker T. Washington. She was happy to receive Anna Jackson's invitation to speak but declines due to not having any plans to be in New York over the summer. She says that as a colored woman, she hates that foreigners are coming and taking work from the young people.
Date:
1906-01-12
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College