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Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Allen A. Scott
Title:
Lawrence Obanyon Posey letter to Allen A. Scott
Description:
Written from Congress Hall. Lawrence Obanyon Posey and Allen A. Scott were African Americans from Aiken, South Carolina. Both had studied at Martha Schofield's school in Aiken and gone on to Lincoln University. Describes Cape May. Says he has gone there to work as a waiter. Mentions gardening in exchange for board while at Lincoln University. Expresses dislike of the vices present in Cape May and fears that he will yield to temptation if he stays there. Discusses his financial situation. Is worried he will be robbed. Misses Schofield.
Date:
1871-08-21
Collection:
Martha Schofield Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Emily Howland letter to Sarah Jacobs
Title:
Emily Howland letter to Sarah Jacobs
Description:
Visted the Hospice of St. Bernard. Commented on the contrast between its pure and spitural inhabitants with the greasy, portly monks who regularly beg in the streets. Descriptions of local flowers and fruit. Swiss children and young adults are fine looking but the old people are some of the ugliest that she's ever seen, probably indicating a low intellectual state. English girls painfully pinch their waists and as they get older tend to get very fat, probably due to beer drinking. One rarely sees interesting faces as one might observe at home in a Wilburite Friends' meeting. Sidney (Sidney Taliaferro Boyer) would like dried corn and peaches.
Date:
1884-10-05
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College