Search results

Log in for more access

[
]
Searching as Anonymous (not verified)
16 items [showing 1 - 16]
1884 July 10, Awbury, to Lillie
Title:
1884 July 10, to Lillie
Date:
1884-07-10
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Theological text excerpt
Title:
Theological text excerpt
Description:
Theology. Theological text. Gothic bastard hand. Black ink. Some letters highlighted with red ink. Recto has a couple of words written in the right margin. 2 columns. Brown ink ruling.
Date:
(inferred)1400
Collection:
Single Leaf Manuscripts
Exempla sanctorum
Title:
Exempla sanctorum
Description:
Exempla Sanctorum (St. James?). Gothic bastard hand. Black ink. 2-line capital letters begin paragraphs in red ink. First letter of sentences is highlighted with red ink. Words in red appear at the end of some lines. Notations that look like plus signs appear in some margins. Writing on both sides of this bifolio document. Ruling in brown ink.
Date:
(inferred)1400
Collection:
Single Leaf Manuscripts
Theological text excerpt
Title:
Theological text excerpt
Description:
Theology; Theological text. Gothic hand. Light brown ink. Red ink fills in the letters which begin sentences. Two words written in a second hand stand in the left hand margin of the recto. Some writing in another hand is visible in the top margin of the verso. 2 columns. Writing on both sides. Metal point ruling.
Date:
(inferred)1300
Collection:
Single Leaf Manuscripts
Theological text excerpt
Title:
Theological text excerpt
Description:
Theology. Theological text (?). Gothic hand. Brown ink. Manuscript is badly faded. One column and a partial second column survive.
Date:
(inferred)1400
Collection:
Single Leaf Manuscripts
1883 July 29, Woodbourne, to Anna
Title:
1883 July 29, to Anna
Date:
1883-07-29
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1880 April 25, to Wife
Title:
1880 April 25, to Wife
Date:
1880-04-25
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Theological text excerpt
Title:
Theological text excerpt
Description:
Theological text. Black ink. Paragraphs begin with 2-line capitals in the left margin. First paragraph contains text that is bolder and larger than that in the rest of the manuscript. Verso has some crudely and simply decorated capitals. Spaces between words are nearly imperceptible.
Collection:
Single Leaf Manuscripts
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
Oldden Ridgeway letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Oldden Ridgeway was a distant cousin of Martha Schofield. Comments on a paper that Schofield sent him and on an article by Peter Cooper. Complains about his neighbors' narrow-mindedness and their literal interpretation of the Bible. Briefly discusses the place of knowledge and reason in theology and eschatology. "Creeds, Dogmas, and Ordinances can only be kept alive by stupidity."
Date:
1874-02-25
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Mott Lord
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott passes along news of friends and family, including the return of her granddaughter Fanny Cavender from visits to Boston and Brooklyn. She briefly discusses her family playing music, her and her relatives' domestic servants, and William Lloyd Garrison. She also writes briefly about theology, mentioning a visit from Henry Fowler and calling her sister Martha Coffin Wright "an arch-heretic ... on the guardian angel question!"
Date:
1866-03-26
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Oliver Howard Ash
Title:
Lydia A. Schofield letter to Oliver Howard Ash
Description:
Lydia Schofield was Oliver Howard Ash's aunt and the sister of Martha Schofield. Is visiting Martha on St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Discusses simple Christian theology and briefly relates interactions with African American children.
Date:
1868-04-01
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter
Description:
Fragment, perhaps to Mott's sister Martha Coffin Wright. Date inferred. Mott discusses the funeral of her cousin Ruth Bunker Chase, her travel plans for the New York State Woman's Rights Convention in Albany, grief over a death of a relative, and other news of friends and family. She also discusses a sermon by Rachel Moore, ideas of starting a Hicksite college, and essays on theology recently published in "The Atlantic."
Date:
1861-01-08
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright and her children
Description:
Written from Roadside. In addition to giving her sister Martha news of family and friends, Lucretia Mott discusses recent social engagements with "old abolitionists" including Sarah Pugh, Elijah Pennypacker, Graceanna Lewis, and Gertrude K. Burleigh; politics and the war; the Christmas gifts her grandchildren received; John William Colenso's recent book on the scriptures and her own opinion on theological issues; charity work being undertaken for the African-American freedmen in Port Royal and Washington, D.C.; James Freeman Clarke and Robert Collyer; and a "home for colored children, possibly the Association for the Care of Coloured Orphans.
Date:
1862-12-27
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rufus M. Jones Diary, 1926
Title:
Rufus M. Jones Diary, 1926
Description:
The 1926 Rufus M. Jones Diary chronicles Jones' journeys across the Pacific Ocean, to Japan, China, the Philippines and India, between June and December of 1926. While in Asia, Jones gave lectures at educational and spiritual gatherings and met with prominent political and spiritual leaders of the time, including Mahatma Gandhi, Silas Strawn, Eiichi Shibusawa and W. W. Yen. These experiences, as well as citations from Jones' contemporary research, are documented here.
Date:
1926
Collection:
Rufus M. Jones Papers
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
William Stone letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
Major William Stone was a Union officer and Freedman's Bureau agent who later served as Attorney General of South Carolina. He married Martha Schofield's friend and co-teacher in Aiken, Mary Taylor Stone. Discusses the visit his wife is currently paying to Schofield. Comments on Schofield's poor health and discusses his views on death and theology. Praises Schofield's educational work and mentions her success getting General Howard's support for a new school house. Mentions her neighbor Aunt Amy's need for a deed to her own house. "We thought that slavery was *the* monster evil of the country—and so it was—but now that it is abolished, we have to fight daily with the evil training it left on peoples, perverting their morals and destroying their sensibility. When this state of things is remedied, other evils hardly thought of now must be met by an equally hard front."
Date:
1870-04-09
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
H. A. Evans letter to Martha Schofield
Title:
H. A. Evans letter to Martha Schofield
Description:
H. A. Evans was a Freedman's Bureau agent who lived with Martha Schofield and other northerners on Wadmalaw Island during her first year teaching in South Carolina. Discusses Schofield's health. Praises her "high idea of life" and desire to do good. Discusses Christian theology. Praises her school in Aiken; says it will be her legacy. Discusses his belief in the equality of men and women; advocates women's suffrage as a means to abolish slavery and other injustices. Describes his own activities.
Date:
1870-05-26
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College