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Box 1

 Container

Contains 38 Results:

Correspondence, 1890

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 33
Scope and Contents

Includes photocopy of the Call for the First Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington Twenty-One Years Since. Correspondents include Elizabeth Comstock, Phebe Frost, Lydia King, R.J. Laws, Mary Reed, S. Searing, Mary Taliaferro, and Sidney Taliaferro, among others

Dates: 1890

Correspondence, 1891

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 34
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Elizabeth Comstock talking about society and Pandita Ramabai (January 30), letters from African American individuals seeking aid for housing or schools, and letters mentioning suffrage meetings. Correspondents include R.J. Laws, John Taliaferro, Anna Searing, Sarah Dolley, Ellen O'Connor, Alfreda Bosworth Withington, and Phebe Coffin, among others.

Dates: 1891

Correspondence, 1892

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 35
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Alfreda Withington describing recent medical cases and life as a woman physician (February 4), and many letters discussing women's suffrage. Correspondents include Alfreda Bosworth Withington, Anna Searing, D.E. Colins, W.D. Laws, Bettie Urquhart, and Sallie Holley, among others.

Dates: 1892

Correspondence, 1893

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 36
Scope and Contents

Many letters discuss women's suffrage events and ideas. Includes a photocopy of a letter from Susan B. Anthony (July 22). Correspondents include Catherine Helen Spence, Anna Searing, Mary F. Eastman, Eliza Wright Osborne, Bettie Urquhart, A. Gertrude Flanders, Sallie Holley, Amanda T. Jones, Clara Bewick Colby, and Jane Slocum, among others.

Dates: 1893

Correspondence, 1894

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 37
Scope and Contents Many letters discuss women's suffrage events and ideas. Includes a letter from Booker T. Washington, as principal of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, regarding a chapel fund and the Christian Register (November 3). Correspondents include Diana C. Williams, Jane E. Thompson, Ellen S. Mussey, Caroline Lacy, John Taliaferro, Jane Slocum, Serena Myers, Eliza Wright Osborne, Zobedia Alleman, Harriet May Mills, Amanda Sanford Hickey, Bettie Urquhart, Lydia King, Kate Gordon, and...
Dates: 1894

Correspondence, 1895

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 38
Scope and Contents

Many letters discuss women's suffrage events and ideas. Correspondents include Jean Greenleaf, Mrs. E.G. Draper (Sister Charlotte), T. Taliaferro, and Zobedia Allemen, among others.

Dates: 1895

Correspondence, 1841 - 1853

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents

Includes letter from Phoebe Hathaway about raising funds for Chaplin while he was imprisoned, likely referring to William Chaplin who was imprisoned for assisting enslaved people; letters from Henry Ince (1852) regarding the Young Ladies Anti-Slavery Sewing Society and fundraising for escaped enslaved people.

Dates: 1841 - 1853

Correspondence, 1853 - 1854

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of a letter from Josiah Letchworth about the failed apprehension of an enslaved man from Auburn Prison under the Fugitive Slave Act (March, 1854).

Dates: 1853 - 1854

Correspondence, 1855 - 1856

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Miles S. Griswold discussing politics and slavery and mentioning the Frederick Douglass lecture in Auburn, NY (1856).

Dates: 1855 - 1856

Correspondence, 1857

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from abolitionist Caroline F. Putnam discussing literature; a detailed letter from Putnam describing the lecture of Wendell Phillips about world history and the advancements of civilization; and a letter from Sallie Holley, among others.

Dates: 1857