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1865 March 15, Locust Shade, to Annie
Title:
1865 March 15, to Annie
Date:
1865-03-15
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Sarah Hopper Palmer letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses recent events concerning family/friends, including Lucretia Mott. Discusses female teachers and the education of women. Mentions a course of co-ed lectures about zoology and comparative anatomy that she is interested in attending.
Date:
1832-10-17
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons and Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson letter to Sally Thayer
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons and Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson letter to Sally Thayer
Description:
Wants her to visit. Sarah Emerson will begin working as a school teacher next Monday, taking over the work of Abby's recently deceased daughter Julia.
Date:
1890-01-04
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to William Wharton and family
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to William Wharton and family
Description:
Talks about her school and and other schools nearby. Has been trying to have her classroom enlarged. Describes her schedule as a teacher. Discusses her younger siblings. Recently saw time-intensive textiles at a fair. The heading "New Amsterdam" is an old name for New York City.
Date:
1831-10-19
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Thesta Dana
Title:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Thesta Dana
Description:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was a prominent American educator; Thesta Dana was the wife of Colonel James Dana. Discusses the pardoning of individuals and confiscation of property. Discusses Maria R. Mann and her struggles to establish a school for African Americans.
Date:
1863-1870
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was a prominent American educator. Discusses Maria R. Mann and her struggles against racist attitudes to establish a school for African Americans.
Date:
1863-1870
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mrs. E. D. Leonard letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Mrs. E. D. Leonard letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Possibly written by Elizabeth D. Leonard (1807-1879). Thanks her for the book, which she praises and has lent out to others. Glad that Gibbons and her daughter Sally have returned to work as Civil War nurses for wounded soldiers. Recommends a young lady who wishes to volunteer as an educator for slaves/contrabands ("Contraband" was a term used during the Civil War to refer to formerly enslaved people who had escaped to Union lines).
Date:
1863-01-26
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary A. Donaldson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Mary A. Donaldson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Asks Gibbons to attend the next Monthly Meeting, which will address the conflicts surrounding Maria R. Mann. Mann is being pressured to resign from the Home.
Date:
1864-09-28
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria R. Mann letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Maria R. Mann letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Written from the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children (the "Home"), where she was a teacher. She is in distress over the affairs and interests of the Home, particularly the fact that several women are trying to have her ejected. Implores Abby to come to the Home as soon as possible to make her own assessment of the issues and provide counsel.
Date:
1864-02-27
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Maria R. Mann letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Maria R. Mann letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses in detail the issues with the establishment and successful operation of her school for African Americans, including the effects of the formation of a competing public school system. Also comments on the status of relief organizations such as the Freedmen's Bureau and the United States Sanitary Commission as sources of educational funding.
Date:
1866-01-30
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary A. Donaldson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Mary A. Donaldson letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Possibly a fragment. Discusses the establishment of an organization for visiting jails, workhouses, and poor houses. Discusses recent events concerning friends, including a Mr. Blatchford and Maria R. Mann. General Howard has offered to find pupils for Mann's school and pay her fifty dollars a month.
Date:
1867-07-01
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney photograph
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney photograph
Description:
Shows Agnes Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, and educator, standing in a yard. The door of a house is visible in the background.
Date:
1880-1920
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney photograph
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney photograph
Description:
Shows Agnes Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, and educator, examining plant foliage in a yard. The door of a house is visible in the background.
Date:
1880-1920
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney portrait
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney portrait
Description:
Depicts Agnes Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, and educator.
Date:
1895-04
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Title:
Cornelia Hancock portrait
Description:
Depicts educator Cornelia Hancock holding an umbrella.
Date:
1916
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Jane M. Slocum photograph
Title:
Jane M. Slocum photograph
Description:
Depicts Quaker educator Jane M. Slocum writing while seated at a table.
Date:
1900
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Harriet Aspinwall Hilton letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Harriet Aspinwall Hilton letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Written on the letterhead of Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of the Department of Public Education of the State of New York, for whom she was the secretary. Aspinwall Hilton is concerned that "our leaders in the suffrage movement were very unwise to antagonize [Mr. Skinner] one of the truest and most useful friends we have ever had in our State." Commented that she had met Miss Anthony on a St. Lawrence steamer and was "pleased to find her as reasonable, clear-headed, and conservative as ever."
Date:
1897-08-07
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary B. Thomas letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Title:
Mary B. Thomas letter to Abby Hopper Gibbons
Description:
Discusses recent events concerning multiple family/friends, including the illness of Abby's sister Rachel. Describes Abby an "independent character." Discusses a school where Abby used to be a teacher, possibly the Negro School at Philadelphia.
Date:
1830-07-01
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Agnes L. Tierney letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Written from Pocono Lake Preserve by Agnes L. Tierney, a Quaker minister, activist, educator, and friend of Emily Howland. Discusses Tierney's recent activities as an educator and passes on news of family and friends.
Date:
1923-07-08
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Alice E. Haden Merritt letter to Emily Howland
Title:
Alice E. Haden Merritt letter to Emily Howland
Description:
Asks Howland for help paying for Merritt's summer school at St. Paul School in Lawrenceville, Virginia, so that she could get a teaching certificate.
Date:
1929-04-19
Collection:
Emily Howland Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College

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