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Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister. Details her new living conditions and teaching position in Allentown, New Jersey. Discusses news concerning family and friends, including their brother, Benjamin Schofield.
Date:
1857-04-06
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield and Samuel S. Ash letters to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield and Samuel S. Ash letters to Martha Schofield
Description:
Lydia A. Schofield and Samuel S. Ash were Martha Schofield's sister and brother-in-law, respectively. Lydia reflects on the passage of time, discusses the plans of various friends/relatives to visit Martha in South Carolina, and describes meeting spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis. Ash describes furniture he is shipping to Martha and tells her that Dillwyn Parrish may visit her soon.
Date:
1872-03-20
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. Offers Martha comfort as she returns to Aiken, South Carolina, shortly after the death of their mother Mary H. Child. Says Child's spirit will be a guardian angel to Martha as she goes south.
Date:
1874-10-26
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Sadie Brouwer Bartram letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Brouwer discusses spiritualism, a recent visit from Schofield's sister Lydia, her views on theater, and a lecture by Anna E. Dickinson she recently attended.
Date:
1865-02-19
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Title:
Martha Schofield letter to Sadie Brouwer Bartram
Description:
Fragment. Martha Schofield met Sadie Brouwer in 1859 while teaching at a school in Harrison, New York, and the two remained close friends. Schofield passes on news of friends and family, talks about her health, and discusses the relationship between spiritualism and Christianity, especially Quakerism.
Date:
1865-02-15
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to her children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to her children
Description:
Lucretia Mott encloses an account of the death of her great-grandson Penrose Hallowell. She discusses her activities in Boston, which included attending the Free Religious Association meeting, where Octavius Frothingham delivered an excellent address. Other speakers included Dr. Cyrus A. Bartol and Celia M. Burleigh. She also mentions attending a funeral where Frothingham "preached the best funeral sermon, and Garrison spoke long and well - rather too much spiritualism."
Date:
1872-06-10
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
James Mott letter
Title:
James Mott letter
Description:
Discusses his experiences at a seance and his interest in spiritualism.
Date:
1810-1868
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Mary Townsend letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Mary Townsend was an author and close friend of Graceanna Lewis'. She has been ill for some time and has been attended by many doctors. She tells Lewis of a new physician who has been treating her, a woman named Miriam De Bonneville, and discusses the treatments De Bonneville uses. She also discusses Fredrika Bremer's travels in the United States, mentions a school that Lewis has been working at, and talks of paranormal phenomena reported at Rochester. The letter also includes several pages written in pencil by someone else, possibly Lewis's brother-in-law Dr. Edwin Fussell.
Date:
1849-1850
Collection:
Lewis-Fussell Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Deborah Main Phelps (spirit) letter to Samuel Phelps
Title:
Deborah Main Phelps (spirit) letter to Samuel Phelps
Description:
Letter to Samuel Phelps attributed to the spirit of his sister Deborah Main Phelps working through the medium Mrs. Twiny. The letter discusses the afterlife and offers Samuel religious counsel. Accompanied by Samuel's notes.
Date:
1880-1929
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Martha Schofield letter Sarah J. Ash
Title:
Martha Schofield letter Sarah J. Ash
Description:
Martha Schofield was Sarah J. Ash's sister. Discusses Ash's suffering and Schofield's nightly visitation by spirits.
Date:
1910-10-20
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield and Samuel S. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield and Samuel S. Ash letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Fragment. Lydia Schofield was Martha Schofield's sister, and Samuel Ash was her brother-in-law. Discusses Lydia's activities: she went to a lecture on spiritualism and a meeting of the "Peace Society" (likely the Universal Peace Union), where she saw Alfred Love.
Date:
1873-06-29
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College