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Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Written to her daughter Julia, who is visiting Europe. Discusses friends/family, including her eventual son-in-law James H. Morse, whom she considers very manly. Mentions the Isaac T. Hopper Home.
Date:
1870-01-21
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to James Sloan Gibbons
Description:
James is abroad in Europe. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends. Received a bequest of five hundred dollars for The Home (later called the Isaac T. Hopper Home).
Date:
1869-09-23
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Written to her daughter Julia who is visiting Europe. Discusses recent events concerning family/friends, including the death of Dr. J. Stearns's daughter and the publication of "The fairy egg, and what it held" illustrated by her daughter Lucy Gibbons Morse. Mentions the Isaac T. Hopper Home.
Date:
1869-12-17
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses travelling to Albany to receive government funding for her charities, the Infant Asylum and The Home (later the Isaac T. Hopper Home). Mentions aid from Joseph Choate. Less money was awarded to The Home, as the House Speaker did not have faith in "so called" sinners. Of the women associated with The Home, she says she will "stand by them long as I live." Discusses her daughter Julia's active involvement in the Diet Kitchen. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. James B. Thayer wrote her to announce the birth of another daughter.
Date:
1874-04-03
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to her daughter
Description:
Likely written to Sally. Discusses recent news concerning family/friends. Is busy with her organization, the Isaac T. Hopper Home (a shelter for women ex-convicts), as well as with the German Industrial School, of which she is president.
Date:
1865-05-06
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Julia Gibbons
Description:
Written to her daughter Julia, who is visiting Europe, and whom she misses. Had dinner with her daughter Lucy and her future husband James H. Morse. Mentions the Isaac T. Hopper Home.
Date:
1870-01-14
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers
Lucy Gibbons Morse letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Lucy Gibbons Morse letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Updates her mother Abby Hopper Gibbons about her recent activities and news concerning family/friends. Reports on the operation of the Home (later known as the Isaac T. Hopper Home) and a girl who was recently admitted there.
Date:
1863-04-26
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Adaline Hepworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Adaline Hepworth letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Adaline Hepworth was an author and reformer. She tells Anna Jackson that at the last meeting of the Women's Prison Association and Isaac T. Hopper Home, a bill that would fine people for public intoxication or disorderly conduct was discussed, and they united in opposition to it.
Date:
1899-12-06
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College