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1889 September 8, Philadelphia, to My Dear Wife
Title:
1889 September 8, to My Dear Wife
Date:
1889-09-08
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Title:
Abby Hopper Gibbons letter to Sarah Hopper Gibbons Emerson
Description:
Discusses recent news concerning family/friends, notably Joseph and Mrs. Choate and a Miss Putnam (likely Mary Putnam Jacobi). Mentions "The Home" (the Isaac T. Hopper Home). Mentions that James B. Thayer was appointed as a professor of law at Harvard. Discusses the mistreatment of working-class communities/children by the "Commissioners": "The Island condemns the Commissioners and I hold them convicted of gross neglect and inhumanity." Discusses the upkeep of and donations to her organizations.
Date:
1873-12-30
Collection:
Abby Hopper Gibbons Papers, In Her Own Right, Swarthmore College