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Joshua Sharpless letters to Isaac Sharpless
Title:
Joshua Sharpless letters to Isaac Sharpless
Description:
Collection of letters written from Joshua Sharpless to his brother Isaac Sharpless. Most of the letters discuss his farm, world politics, books, his travels, and their family and friends. Several letters from 1802 describe a disease spreading around Philadelphia, presumably yellow fever. The letters are not in chronological order and many are in poor condition.
Date:
1795 - 1809
Collection:
Sharpless Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Haverford College
1882 September 7, Newport, to My dear Jonathan, Awbury
Title:
1882 September 7, Awbury
Date:
1882-09-07
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
The Growth of Peace Principles, and Methods of Propagating Them
Title:
The Growth of Peace Principles, and Methods of Propagating Them
Description:
Presented to the Triennial Woman's Council. Argues against war; discusses recent changes in society.
Date:
1895-02-28
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
'Peace and the Outlook: An American View"
Title:
'Peace and the Outlook: An American View"
Description:
Pacifist literature by Belva Lockwood. Lockwood begins by discussing the negative consequences and high cost of war in the framework of the recently fought Spanish-American War and the Cuban Revolution. She bridges into describing the United States' foreign relations with the world's great powers, with emphasis on many countries' efforts towards peaceful relations and highlights the many benefits of peace and disarmament for the U.S. and the world. She also talks extensively about the international peace conference held in The Hague in 1899. She then describes individual and organizational efforts towards world peace, including the work of the Universal Peace Union.
Date:
1899-08-27
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
1907 February 28th, Awbury, to My dear Lillie
Title:
1907 February 28th, to My dear Lillie
Description:
Count Appoyni (Albert Apponyi, 1846-1933) was a Hungarian politician who was the Hungarian delegate for the Versailles Peace Conference following WWII. He visited the US many times, lecturing and meeting with Presidents TR and Taft.
Date:
1907-02-28
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Fragment. In addition to giving her sister news of family and friends, Lucretia Mott discusses war, John C. Fremont, James Miller McKim's "blind concert, and the sickness of her granddaughter Lucretia Mott Hopper. Thousands and tens of thousands idle soldiers, to be clothed and cared for by the labor of women in great measure"
Date:
1861-11-10
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Possibly a fragment. Mott discusses the war and the chances of it ending slavery. She also mentions having recently had Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and William Lloyd Garrison to dinner at her house.
Date:
1861-11-04
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, Martha Mott Lord, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright, and Anna Coffin Temple Brown
Description:
Partially from Roadside and partially written from the home of her son-in-law Edward Hopper. In addition to passing along various news of friends and family, Lucretia Mott briefly discusses what she has read recently, a trip to speak at Camp William Penn (a Union Army training camp for African-American soldiers), proposed treatments for various relatives' health issues, aid for and public opinion about African-American freedmen, and her views on war. She also briefly comments on equality within marriage and makes a brief mention of Anna E. Dickinson.
Date:
1864-01-21
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Written from Roadside. Lucretia Mott gives her sister news of friends and family and discusses Abraham Lincoln, his cabinet, and the relationship of slavery to the war. Mott also talks at length of the dismissal of John C. Frémont, a Union general who favored emancipation and under whom Mott's son-in-law Edward M. Davis served.
Date:
1861-11-06
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Martha Coffin Wright
Description:
Lucretia Mott gives her sister news of friends and family. She also discusses the war, Lincoln's policy of confiscating slaves as confederate property and the public response to it, war in general, the sickness of her granddaughter Lucretia Mott Hopper (1838-1861), and mentions in passing that James Miller McKim is putting on a "blind concert." Possibly a fragment. "Petitions should now be poured in from all quarters so that poor Abe, McClellan and the others, may see how unavailing all their proslavery conservatism is."
Date:
1861-12-05
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Antoinette Brown Blackwell essay
Title:
Antoinette Brown Blackwell essay
Description:
Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a minister, author, and women's rights advocate. Expresses sentiments against war, primarily in the context of war against Spain.
Date:
1890-1900
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Anna Howard Shaw letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Anna Howard Shaw letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Anna Howard Shaw was a suffragist, temperance leader, and Methodist minister. Returns a Easter card that she suspects was not meant for her. Hopes for an end to the "cruel war."
Date:
1894-03-30
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Interparliamentary Conference Resolution
Title:
Interparliamentary Conference Resolution
Description:
Resolution unanimously adopted by the "11th Interparliamentary Conference" and reported by Frederick Bajer, who was president of the International Peace Bureau. The resolution implores the world powers to commit to "the peaceful solution of International differences" as voted by the Hague Conference in 1899. Criticizes the United States and Great Britain for becoming involved in wars after pledging support for arbitration at the Hague Conference, though it is also noted that President Theodore Roosevelt is interested in calling another congress at The Hague so that the United States may "secure arbitration treaties with all other governments which are willing to enter into them with us."
Date:
1903-09-08
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Belva Lockwood notes
Title:
Belva Lockwood notes
Description:
Titled "For the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress 'Pacigerance' or Peace Making by States." Lists the resolutions proposed by Lockwood at the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress in Boston on October 7, 1904, on behalf of Frederick Bajer, President of the Commission of the International Peace Bureau. Includes printed clippings of the resolutions of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress and the resolution adopted by the Eleventh Interparliamentary Conference (Lockwood-0087) which are glued to the pages and edited in pen.
Date:
1905-03-18
Collection:
Belva Ann Lockwood Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College