Box 30
Contains 60 Results:
Woodworth, F.G. The draft riot in New York, 1872 3mo 24
Lightfoot, Thomas to Jeans, Mary. Nohert, Nebraska, 1872 10mo 5
With receipts concerning work concerning work with the Iowas and Sac & Fox of the Great Nemaha Reservation
Coleman, Ann. Audit of Estate, 1872 12mo 6
Foulke, Phebe W. to "Esteemed friend", 1871 8mo 14
Phebe W. Foulke, first Matron of Swarthmore College (1870-1878), describes clothing guidelines in order to answer concerns about extravagence in dress of female students. (Plainness testimony, plain dress.)
Wilson, Sidney, Rahway, NJ,, to dear friends Amy Exton, Clinton, NJ., 1871-05-13
Family news, plans to attend meeting in Plainfield.
Fell, C. M. to dear cousin [Jones, Elias] , 1870-05-01
Smith, E. C., Darlington, to My dear cousin, 1867-05-19
Smith described a letter she received from her brother who was having a difficult time because his slaves had been liberated and left him with no help to work his fields.
Upton, S. B., Woodbury, to dear cousin., 1870-11 [?]-13.
Family news, including an outbreak of smallpox creating a panic for vaccinations. She wrote that diphtheria and scarlet fever continue to baffle science. Quaker meetings, and she recalled the "troublesome times of the Wilburite difficulties."
Dickinson, Anna Elizabeth, Atlantic City, NJ, to Brown, Arthur, 1871-07-24, 1871-09-11
The letters concern rescheduling lecture dates. Dickinson (1842-1932) was a renowned lecturer and orator and advocate for women's rights and the abolition of slavery.
