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Letter from Helen Calder Robertson to her family, undated
Title:
Letter from Helen Calder Robertson to her family, undated
Description:
Helen and her friends travelled to New York, had tea in China Town and visited Henry St. settlement.
Date:
1915
Collection:
Helen Calder Robertson Letters
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Addressed to "My dear friend"; likely to Caroline F. Putnam. Unsigned. Offers the recipient advice on traveling in Europe. Discusses Abraham Keralla, a young Syrian Quaker named staying with Howland who was pursuing a medical education in the U.S. after coming to the country for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Date:
1896-04-21
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Addressed to "my dear friend"; likely to Caroline F. Putnam. Thanks the recipient for sending detailed letters about traveling in Europe. Briefly Discusses Howland's eye problems. Offers sightseeing advice. Discusses Howland's time in Chautauqua and the broader Chautauqa educational movement.
Date:
1896-07-06
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Dr. John Stearns Jr. letter
Title:
Dr. John Stearns Jr. letter
Description:
Possibly a fragment. Describes the family's travels in Europe and their life in Vienna. Praises the city's hospital where he has been working.
Date:
1840-1893
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written to educator Caroline F. Putnam. Discusses Howland's time in London. Speaks briefly of Elizabeth Thompson. Describes meeting Queen Victoria in company with other foreign attendees of the International Council of Women. Discusses attending a reception hosted by Lady Aberdeen after the close of the Council; criticizes the tradition of low-necked dresses. Discusses Howland's time in the Netherlands and Belgium, including visting the Huis ten Bosch palace in the Hague. Expresses doubts about the ability of a peace conference at the Hague to "stem the tide of militarism which menaces humanity." Describes a church service in Ghent.
Date:
1899-07-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland notebook
Title:
Emily Howland notebook
Description:
The notebook primarily contains sporadic entries from 1899-07-14 to 1899-10-09, chronicling Howland's travels through Europe and voyage back to the United States. Remarking on the maintenance costs of a historic cathedral in England, Howland says "If that money and what is wasted on militarism could be wisely applied for the education of the people what a world this would quickly become. The world that has the power does not want those of fewer opportunities to have them." When discussing other passengers on the voyage, Howland expresses disapproval of a racist woman from South Carolina, saying "She and my friend Miss Purois [sp] have had some passages on the race question. She is not worth her ammunition. I think that the woman's talking shows that the Southern people feel that they must be always on the defence because they know that they are in the wrong." The notebook contains additional miscellaneous content, including an undated entry on anti-militarism and a list of names from 1903.
Date:
1899
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to her family
Title:
Emily Howland letter to her family
Description:
Discusses correspondence Howland had sent and received while traveling in Europe. Discusses meeting Queen Victoria in company with other foreign attendees of the International Council of Women and attending a reception hosted by Lady Aberdeen after the close of the Council. Describes sightseeing in the Netherlands and Belgium, including visits to the Huis Ten Bosch palace in the Hague and to Edam, Rotterdam, Vollenden, and Alkmaar. Mentions having lightning rods installed on her property in New York.
Date:
1899-07-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to her family
Title:
Emily Howland letter to her family
Description:
Asks after various friends and acquaintances in New York. Discusses sightseeing in Bruges and Ghent; describes a church service Howland attended in Ghent. Discusses plans for her time in Britain. Remarks on the recent publication of a book on Sallie Holley by Holley's long-time partner Caroline F. Putnam. Describes visiting Mrs. Corey and her family.
Date:
1899-07-29
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Grace E. Babbitt letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Title:
Grace E. Babbitt letter to Caroline F. Putnam
Description:
Written by public librarian Grace E. Babbitt to educator Caroline F. Putnam. Asks about the possibility of meeting up with mutual friend Emily Howland. Discusses Babbitt's recent trip to Europe.
Date:
1910-1916
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Rebecca Moore letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Rebecca Moore letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Rebecca Fisher Moore, a British social reformer of Irish Quaker descent. Discusses reformer Samuel J. May's opinion of the Dreyfus Affair. Invites Howland and Mrs. Osborne to tea. Suggests English cathedrals for sightseeing.
Date:
1899-09-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Samuel Jacques Brun letter to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Title:
Samuel Jacques Brun letter to Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Description:
Draft of a letter written to Howland's niece while Howland traveled around the Southern U.S. visiting African American schools with reformer Mary F. Eastman; for the finished letter, see A00186170. Discusses sight-seeing and flower-collecting in Charleston, South Carolina.
Date:
1891-04-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Charlotte Pearl Letchworth to Byron Smith and Charlotte Thompson Smith
Title:
Charlotte Pearl Letchworth to Byron Smith and Charlotte Thompson Smith
Description:
Written to Letchworth's sister-in-law Charlotte Thompson Smith (nee Letchworth) and her husband Byron Smith. Discusses the Letchworth's travel plans, saying she and her companions would stay in Italy longer than expected.
Date:
1890-06-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Caroline F. Putnam letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Caroline F. Putnam letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by educator Caroline F. Putnam from the Holley School in Lottsburg, Virginia, likely in response to Howland's letter of 1899-07-30 (A00186234) discussing a visit with English abolitionist Rebecca Moore. Responds to a review Moore had written about Putnam's recent book "A Life for Liberty" and praises Howland's letter describing the visit, saying Putnam would send it to Samuel May. Discusses sightseeing in England. Describes Putnam's presentation to a potential donor to the Holley School. Remarks on how schools in the South were teaching the history of the Confederacy. Discusses Northumberland County and the prosperity of the African American community there. Discusses her habit of displaying various busts and medallions to local visitors.
Date:
1899-08-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland account book
Title:
Emily Howland account book
Description:
Record of Howland's expenses, including those from her travels in Europe in the summer of 1885.
Date:
1885-06-01 - 1887-03-02
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's niece Isabel, who was staying at the Gleason Sanitarium with her mother Hannah. Discusses Howland's correspondence and Booker T. Washington's role as representative of African Americans while abroad. Shares her travel plans. Mentions Susan B. Anthony's recent movements. Remarks on the many missionaries staying alongside Howland at Mrs. Corey's; passes on their opinions on temperance in Asia.
Date:
1899-08-11
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's niece Isabel while Howland was traveling in Europe. Offers explanations for difficulties with the international mail. Refers to Isabel's "intense anxiety" as part of a discussion either of Isabel's own mental health or of her elderly mother Hannah's health. Describes Eastnor Castle, home of Lady Henry Somerset, which Howland visited. Ponders Lady Somerset's character.
Date:
1899-08-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Addressed to her niece Isabel Howland, who Emily Howland is glad has returned home safely. Discusses her travel through Athens and Eleusis with her niece Edith Howland, making observations about Greek culture, fashion, architecture, and flora. Remarks on the lack of established tourism industry, and compares Roman Catholic priests and churches to Greek Orthodox ones. Also comments on the high cost of their hotel, saying "It may be we pay more for the honor of having men for chambermaids. We women have heard a great deal about the danger of getting out of our sphere and have been often ridiculed by the depicting of just such exchanges of place as we find here, one of the speakers before the Boston Com. of Leg. [sp] supposed just such a state of things as exists in this house as one of the monstrosities to follow granting civil rights to women. I wonder if the working women of Athens feel so horrified at the men getting out of their sphere." Mentions their plan to travel to Constantinople.
Date:
1885-05-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's niece Isabel while Howland was vacationing in England. Discusses Howland's friend Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Virginia, and mentions receiving a letter from educator Martha Schofield. Relates her sightseeing in England.
Date:
1899-09-03
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Howland's niece Isabel while Howland was vacationing in England. Discusses her sightseeing activities. Briefly remarks on Susan B. Anthony, who had also been in England recently.
Date:
1899-08-23
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland diary
Title:
Emily Howland diary
Description:
Entries run sporadically from 1886-07-01 to 1888-05-07. Chronicles Howland's daily activities and trip to Bermuda. Includes a description of her interaction with Indian social reformer Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati(1858-1922).
Date:
1886-07-01 - 1888-05-07
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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