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Penn Sewing School Certificate of Amendments and Alterations to Charter
Title:
Penn Sewing School Certificate of Amendments and Alterations to Charter
Description:
Certificate amending Articles and conditions of the Charter of the Penn Sewing School.
Date:
1876-01-25
Collection:
Penn Sewing School Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Penn Sewing School Treasurer's Report
Title:
Penn Sewing School Treasurer's Report
Description:
Prepared by Elma Hoopes. Contains an account of funds paid to various persons as well as funds received from annual subscriptions and interest.
Date:
1887
Collection:
Penn Sewing School Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Penn Sewing School Petition and Charter
Title:
Penn Sewing School Petition and Charter
Description:
The original petition for incorporating the Penn Sewing School. Contains the Charter with the articles.
Date:
1871-05-17
Collection:
Penn Sewing School Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to Graceanna Lewis
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to Graceanna Lewis
Description:
Lucretia Mott discusses the logistics of an antislavery meeting Graceanna Lewis is organizing.
Date:
1852-08-09
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:
Fragment. Lucretia Mott discusses daily life within her social circle, covering topics of candle-making, jellies, her current reading material, natural disasters, and spiritualism. She also mentions Mary Grew, Nathaniel Parker Willis, George Combe, Benjamin Hallowell, and the Fox sisters, among others. "Groceries and coal sold out very cheap to the Poor, and yet after all, thousands are in want--in rags--in vice and filth. Where is the radical reform?!!!!"
Date:
1850-02-06
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Joseph J. Janney letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Joseph J. Janney letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Joseph J. Janney was a Quaker involved in social activism. He thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for the information she provided on electing police matrons in New York and speculates on how to advance the cause.
Date:
1893-08-07
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Mary Putnam Jacobi letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Title:
Mary Putnam Jacobi letter to Mariana Wright Chapman
Description:
Mary Putnam Jacobi was a physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She discusses her social activities and how she still wishes to participate in the suffrage movement despite how busy she is.
Date:
1893-08-18
Collection:
Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Penn Sewing School Committee on Change of Work minutes
Title:
Penn Sewing School Committee on Change of Work minutes
Description:
Two meeting minutes prepared by the Chairperson of the Committee, Lydia J. Hallowell. The committee proposed a new way to divide the students of the sewing school and discussed the possibility of the children's mothers attending meetings.
Date:
1893
Collection:
Penn Sewing School Records, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College
Lucretia Mott letter to John and Rebecca Ketcham
Title:
Lucretia Mott letter to John and Rebecca Ketcham
Description:
Lucretia Mott thanks John and Rebecca Ketcham for the cushions sent to friends and family, and also describes her involvement with a local meeting, particularly of her disappointment at the lack of reporting for the Worcester Convention. Also mentioned is a series of court cases involving the arrest, recapture, or discharging of several runaway slaves.
Date:
1850-03-16
Collection:
Mott Manuscripts, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College