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Hannah Letchworth Howland letters to Emily Howland
Title:
Hannah Letchworth Howland letters to Emily Howland
Description:
Likely written by Hannah Letchworth Howland around the time of her marriage to Emily Howland's brother William. Hopes Emily and her parents will attend the wedding. Asks if Emily would be interested in taking a trip to New York City, Trenton, and Philadelphia.
Date:
1852-1855
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Benjamin Howland
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Benjamin Howland
Description:
Letter to Howland's brother Benjamin telling him that their aunt Rebecca Talcott was mortally ill and discussing travel arrangements to go see her. The back of the paper bears a draft of a story about an infirm girl from New York and her quest for an education.
Date:
1850-1870
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lydia King letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Lydia King letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Date estimated based on stamp used. Urges Howland to visit King in Philadelphia on her way from upstate New York to the South.
Date:
1870-1886
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Written while Waring was in France as a relief worker. Describes concluding her relief activities in France and making preparations for her next assignment assessing postwar conditions in Austria and Poland. Also discusses her fellow relief workers.
Date:
1919-10-06
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Title:
Beulah Hurley Waring letter
Description:
Written while Waring was in Europe as a relief worker. Discusses her journey to and arrival in Warsaw on relief business. Also discusses her travel plans home to the U.S.
Date:
1919-11-18
Collection:
Beulah Hurley Waring papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
Emily Howland letter
Title:
Emily Howland letter
Description:
Undated fragment; signed "Aunt Emily." Discusses the travel plans of Howland's friend Sidney Taliaferro Boyer to Cayuga County, New York, presumably from Northumberland County, Virginia. Mentions getting a "Revivalist."
Date:
(inferred) 1866 - (inferred) 1890
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Hopes to see Howland before Tierney leaves Poplar Ridge. Discusses Howland's travels, Tierney's own travel plans, and the upcoming school commencement.
Date:
1905-06-06
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Antoinette Brown Blackwell letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Antoinette Brown Blackwell letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Dictated by women's rights activist Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Discusses plans for a summer trip to Northern Europe with Howland. Mentions the effect of a recent storm on the sea wall of her property on Martha's Vineyard.
Date:
1910-01-06
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 Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of Emily Howland. Discusses Isabel's travel plans and the ill health of Amanda Gifford.
Date:
1923-03-22
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 Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of Emily Howland. Asks after Isabel's health and plans. Encourages Isabel to visit her brother Herbert S. Howland in France over the summer. Passes on news of friends and neighbors, including Helen Judson, Miss Thompson, the Jacobses, and the Morses.
Date:
1923-03-26
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maurice Gregory letter to Anna M. Jackson
Title:
Maurice Gregory letter to Anna M. Jackson
Description:
Maurice Gregory was the Secretary of the Friends' Association for Abolishing the State Regulation of Vice. Probably addressed to Anna M. Jackson. Discusses his upcoming travel plans and wishes to consult the recipient and the New York Friends. Mentions that he has received a letter written by Josephine Butler that he wants to read at "the Convention."
Date:
1907-10-09
Collection:
Branson-Jackson Family 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 Emily Howand's friend Caroline F. Putnam, who ran the Holley School for African Americans in Virginia. Remarks on rereading and returning old letters. Discusses her plans to visit Putnam. Says that her young great niece would stay in the cool weather of Maine as long as possible "to spare the child the dangers of infant paralysis." Asks if Putnam had access to a telephone.
Date:
1916-10-01
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland; postmarked "Pocono." Discusses Tierney's travel plans.
Date:
1916-06-22
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney postcard to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses plans to visit Howland in Sherwood, New York.
Date:
1918-06-12
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses porcelain German coins that Tierney had sent Howland and lays out her itinerary for an upcoming trip to Europe.
Date:
1922-10-14
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses their upcoming trip and her travel arrangements. Asks if Howland would object to a Quaker named Hannah Morris accompanying them on their trip, saying "she is not a shockable person - is a believer in Suffrage and greatly interested in negro schools."
Date:
1903-02-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Harriet May Mills
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Harriet May Mills
Description:
Written to Harriet May Mills, a women's rights activist and friend of Howland's niece Isabel. Discusses plans to attend a celebration at Dresden.
Date:
1921-08-08
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:
Unsigned; possibly a fragment. Written to Caroline F. Putnam, who ran a school for African Americans in Virginia. Thanks Putnam for a barrel of "Virginia's sweet tubers." Discusses plans to visit Putnam in Virginia. Briefly remarks on the World War.
Date:
1914-11-15
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Title:
Frank Pierrepont Graves letter to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written by Frank Pierrepont Graves, Commissioner of the New York State Education Department, to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Thanks Isabel for information on Emily and discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-17
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Title:
C. B. Heisler to Isabel Howland
Description:
Written to Isabel Howland, a women's rights activist and niece of reformer Emily Howland. Discusses arrangements for Emily's trip to Albany to receive an honorary doctorate.
Date:
1926-09-27
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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