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letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 222 Collections and/or Records:

Valda Sauter letter

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-210
Abstract

This collection contains a letter written by Valda Sauter to John Cary.

Dates: 1955

Booker T. Washington letters to Henry Pleasants Jr.

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-003-136
Abstract

This collection consists of two letters written by Booker T. Washington to Henry Pleasants Jr. in December 1905 and March 1906. Washington discusses his recent visit to and lecture at Haverford College and a donation by the Haverford Civics Club to the Tuskegee Institute.

Dates: 1905 December 16 - 1906 March 16

John G. Whittier Letter

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-302
Abstract

This collection contains a letter from John G. Whittier to Eliza Channing Higginson concerning the death of William Henry Channing, her uncle.

Dates: 1885

Letter about George Williams

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-801-02-009
Abstract

The collection consists of a letter from 1827 addressed to the Mayor of Philadelphia, Joseph Watson, about a potentially fugitive enslaved man, George Williams.

Dates: 1827 June 18

Elizabeth U. Willis scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-015
Abstract Elizabeth U. Willis's scrapbook includes photos and clippings about her and Sarah F. Underhill, photos of the Underhill family, clippings, illustrations, and portraits of Quakers, meeting houses, and Quaker birthplaces. Quaker autographs and letters are included as well. Letter writers include Samuel Fothergill, Anne Mott, David Sands, William Allinson, William Dillywn, William Rickman, J. Stephenson, George Jones, Lindley Murray, Richard Mott, and John Barrow. Confederate money, fractional...
Dates: 1850-1898

Thomas Willis papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-207
Abstract

This collection contains a letter by Thomas Willis and a transcribed account of an earlier event.

Dates: 1792-1859

Eleanor Wills Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-309
Abstract

This collection contains two letters written by Gladys Fatty and Lois Marjorie Doctor to Eleanor Wills in 1937. Eleanor Wills was a teacher at the Friends Indian School, (also known as the Tunesassa Friends School) in Quaker Bridge, New York. Fatty and Doctor were both students of Wills at this school.

Dates: 1937

Winston-Clark Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1165
Abstract

Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families began in the Midwest, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education, the Civil War and friends/family fighting in the Confederate army, and other topics.

Dates: 1814-1900

Caspar Wistar Morris Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-04-23
Abstract

This collection contains letters, speeches, and articles between 1825 and 1843. The materials were cut from newspaper articles and bound together. Some of the newspapers include the National Intelligencer, Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, and Commercial Advertiser.

Dates: 1825 - 1843

Thomas Wistar letterbook

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-02-029
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the single volume letterbook of Thomas Wistar. The majority of the letters copied in this volume are personal correspondence between Thomas Wistar and various family members and friends. A few letters included are letters of sympathy from friends and family written upon the death of Thomas Wistar in January, 1876.

Dates: 1875-1876