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Includes a letter from J.R. Johnson discussing instructing Chinese men in English and Christianity. Correspondents include Lillie Blake, Phebe Coffin, Sallie Holley, Sidney Taliaferro, and Phebe Wood, among others.

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Includes a letter discussing a Wendell Phillips lecture and upcoming Frederick Douglass lecture (January 2, 1877). Correspondents include Sallie Holley, Lydia King, Squire Raymond, Mary Reed, Benjamin Taliaferro, and Sidney Taliaferro, among others.

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Correspondents include Lydia King and Mary Reed, among others.

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Includes a photocopy of a letter from Mary Thomas discussing the Exodusters, part of the Exodus of 1879 where thousands of African Americans migrated to Kansas from post-Reconstruction Southern states. Correspondents include Emma V. Brown, Theodosia G. Chaplin, Phebe Coffin, Mary Reed, and Sidney Taliaferro, among others.

Scope and Contents Includes letter from Catherine discussing Quaker lodges in New York and their acceptance or denial of African American people. Some letters concern George Nash (then General Attorney of Ohio) and possible nonmarital child, the mother of whom was being cared for at a school by Anne Piper. A letter from M. Belle Nelson (February 23) describes the Five Points House of Industry. A letter from Carrie Lacy (August 16) asks for funding for poor African Americans and describes the changing local...

Scope and Contents Includes many condolence letters on the death of Slocum Howland, including a letter from Joseph L. McCoy, the "first colored public school teacher that ever taught in Westmoreland County"; a letter from Sarah Johonnot discussing Cornell University's lack of women on the board of trustees and as professors (August 9); and a letter from Howland to Anne Greene (December 28). Correspondents include Phebe Coffin, Cornelia Hancock, Carrie Lacy, M. Belle Nelson, Mary Reed, and Sidney Taliaferro,...

Scope and Contents Letters include discussions of the publication of a biography of Myrtilla Miner, with various people writing their thoughts about her; copies of letters about the origin of Howland School House and Howland Chapel; Universal Peace Union flier and constitution; Miner Normal School graduation pamphlet; condolence letters on the death of Benjamin Howland; a letter from Burt Green Wilder thanking Howland for her letter and offer of a brain, and describing his sadness at having to kill cats and...

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Includes a letter from D.E. Collins discussing suffrage (December 5). Correspondents include Phebe Coffin, Cornelia Hancock, Lydia King, Mary Ann Marsh, Ellen O'Connor, Anna Searing, Sidney Taliaferro, and Henrietta Wolcott, among others.

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Many letters contain well-wishes for Howland's trip to Europe. A letter from August 10 describes a small earthquake felt in Bozrah, Connecticut. Another letter from Anna Searing discusses the upcoming presidential election as well as a conversation with Frederick Douglass about the immortality of the soul (circa November) Correspondents include Anna Searing and Sidney Taliaferro, among others.

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Includes letters about Elizabeth Comstock's move to Union Springs. Correspondents include Theodosia Chaplin, Amanda Sanford Hickey, H. Hussey, Ellen O'Connor, Mary Reed, and Lydia King, among others.