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William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Major William Stone was a Union Army officer, Freedman's Bureau agent, and later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He also married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. He has a letter for Schofield from Major Emerson, who had done Schofield a favor. He is looking forward to being reunited with his fiance, Mary Taylor, and they will go to New England because he has received orders relieving him of his duties. He has had several recent speaking engagements where he has been talking to freedmen about education. He also discusses attending Fourth of July celebrations.
Date:
1869-07-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. She wrote Martha this letter to be read while travelling back to Aiken, South Carolina from her family home in Darby, Pennsylvania. She expresses her love for Martha and her admiration for her and all the good work she is doing. She feels sympathy for Martha after the marriage of her closest friend Sadie Brouwer Bartram.
Date:
1869-11-03
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
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 Lawrence Obanyon Posey and Allen A. Scott, former students of Martha Schofield's who were studying at Lincoln University; gives a detailed description of their academic performance. Stresses the importance of Schofield's continued interest in them. Describes students' typical summer jobs. Asks Schofield if she knows of any jobs near her that might hire graduating students. Includes a sketched plan of a house.
Date:
1870-06-01
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Philena Heald Letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Philena Heald Letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Text is faded. Like Schofield, Philena Heald taught freedmen in South Carolina after the Civil War. Heald describes her school and students, who are "breathless in attention and catch every word we say." She describes in detail the house where she is living, in which rebels once resided. She also describes attending a Black church. She expresses a desire to see Schofield since they are now living so close to each other.
Date:
1866-02-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rachel Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Rachel Jackson letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Rachel Jackson was Martha Schofield's aunt. Discusses a woman named Emily Preston (sp?) who worked in hospitals during the Civil War and taught African American freedmen in the South afterwards. Preston wants to take a job at an adult night school in Aiken, South Carolina, where Schofield lived and taught.
Date:
1870-1883
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Anna Webster Bunting letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Anna Webster Bunting letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Anna Webster Bunting was a close friend of Martha Schofield's. She writes about the school she has recently quit, the weather, and Christmas. She mentions that her wedding (to John Bunting) will take place in January. She is eager for word from Schofield about how everything is going and hopes they will see each other again soon.
Date:
1865-12-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Dorsey letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Elizabeth Dorsey letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Elizabeth Dorsey was treasurer of the Germantown Freedmen's Aid Association, an important source of funding for Martha Schofield's school in Aiken. Describes Isaac N. Rendall's report of the academic progress of Schofield's former students Allen A. Scott and Lawrence Obanyon Posey at Lincoln University and discusses the lack of funding to sponsor other African American students. Briefly talks about the recent death of Mr. Webb.
Date:
1871-02-05
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Laura Matilda Towne was an abolitionist, doctor, educator, and founder of the first schools for African American freedmen. Schofield and Towne worked together teaching freedmen on the Sea Islands of South Carolina. Is glad to hear that Schofield is settling comfortably into her new house and job in Aiken. Has shipped most of Schofield's belongings to her and requests a value estimate for the remaining supplies, which she is keeping for the other teachers. Discusses news concerning St. Helena and the school, including the teachers moving to Frogmore, the enlargement of the school house, the need for supplies, and more. Mentions multiple teachers and freedmen, including Schofield's former student Caroline Green.
Date:
1868-12-20
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Laura Matilda Towne was an abolitionist, doctor, educator, and founder of the first schools for African American freedmen. She shares with Schofield her expense report which has been sent to Robert R. Corson of the American Freedman's Union Commission. She complains that the teachers at her school are overwhelmed by large class sizes and has hopes that the Commission will send another teacher. She also discusses the teachers at her school.
Date:
1869-11-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Laura Matilda Towne was an abolitionist, doctor, educator, and founder of the first schools for African American freedmen. Updates Schofield on recent events since she left St. Helena Island. Discusses the lack of food available for the Island's residents. Shares news about multiple individuals including her co-teacher Ellen Murray, an African American boy named Pompey, and Schofield's student Caroline Green, from whom she has enclosed a letter (A00182768). Discusses the possibilty of Schofield leaving St. Helena permanently to work in Aiken; tells her to keep in contact.
Date:
1868-06-14
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield and Mary Taylor Stone
Title:
Laura M. Towne letter to Martha Schofield and Mary Taylor Stone
Description:
Laura M. Towne was an abolitionist, doctor, educator, and founder of the Penn School, which was the first school for freedmen established after the Civil War. Mary Taylor Stone worked with Martha Schofield at the Schofield School in Aiken, South Carolina. Towne is sending medicine for Schofield after learning about her recent illness. She thanks them for the gift of the blackboard and is curious as to why Major Stone was called away. She also discusses her school and her students.
Date:
1869-03-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
S.C. Armstrong letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
S.C. Armstrong letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Samuel C. Armstrong was best known as an educator who founded Hampton University in Virginia (originally the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute for African Americans) and the Hampton University Museum, which is the oldest African American museum in the country. Written on the stationery of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute. Praises Schofield's efforts, promises to refund the money she spent sending him several students, and comments on the intelligence of African Americans.
Date:
1872-10-18
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
S. M. Landon letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
S. M. Landon letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
S. M. Landon [sp] describes her life as a new teacher on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, where Martha Schofield previously worked. Shares news about the island's inhabitants, including teachers Laura M. Towne and Ellen Murray moving to Frogmore and Schofield's previous students. Wishes there was another teacher to help her. Is thankful for the supplies Schofield left behind when she moved to Aiken and offers to reimburse her for the canned food. Is interested in hearing about Schofield's new school.
Date:
1869-01-07
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
S. M. Landon letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
S. M. Landon letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
S. M. Landon [sp] taught freedmen on Saint Helena Island in South Carolina after the Civil War. She describes the conditions on Saint Helena Island.
Date:
1869-03-22
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Edmund Willets letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Edmund Willets letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Comments on an essay Schofield sent him. Tells her that the Charity Society of Jericho and Westbury Meetings is likely to contribute money to her school for African American freedmen.
Date:
1874-02-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dennis F. Douglass and Major Mitchel letters to Martha Schofield
Title:
Dennis F. Douglass and Major Mitchel letters to Martha Schofield
Description:
These letters were written by two or three of Schofield's former students of the Aiken School who had just moved to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural School in Hampton, Virginia. They discuss conditions in the children's new home.
Date:
1872-10-24
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Oliver Johnson letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oliver Johnson letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oliver Johnson worked at the New York office of the American Anti-Slavery Society. He had forwarded Martha Schofield's letter expressing her desire to teach freedmen in the South to Francis George Shaw, President of the National Freedman's Association, and copies the reply. Shaw wrote that his Association will be sending teachers to North and South Carolina and are still considering applicants. Johnson encourages Schofield to write to Shaw and apply and says he will do anything he can to help her.
Date:
1863-09-11
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline Green letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Caroline Green letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Caroline Green was a student of Martha Schofield's. Discusses her schooling under Ellen Murray and Laura M. Towne. Enclosed with a letter from Laura M. Towne to Martha Schofield (A00182767).
Date:
1868-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter
Title:
Martha Schofield letter
Description:
Fragment; probably a letter draft. Likely addressed to Oliver Johnson, who worked in the New York office of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Schofield writes that she has a leading to teach the newly freed people in the South. She has already sent unsuccessful requests to James Miller McKim and William Lloyd Garrison, but she is determined. She adds that her circumstances make her unable to take a job without compensation. She has not yet told her family of her plan because she knows they will object. She mentions that she already has experience teaching African Americans in Philadelphia.
Date:
1863-09-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Monday Washington letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Monday Washington letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Monday Washington was a former student of Martha Schofield's from Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina. Writes that he and all the students were very disappointed when they learned that Schofield was not coming back to their school. He was hoping Schofield would return and teach him how to write. He hopes to put together a box to send to Schofield and all her children in Aiken.
Date:
1869-05-13
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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