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Box 3

 Container

Contains 15 Results:

Correspondence, 1910

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5-6
Scope and Contents Correspondents include William J. Edwards, Wilson L. Gill, Martin Menafee, Rebecca Taliaferro, Debbie B. Young, Cornelia Bowen, Emma M. Gillett, Jennie Dean, A.W. Nicholson, Emanuel M. McDuffie, Charlotte Hancock, Alfred H. Love, Harriet May Mills, William H. Holtzclaw, Eliza Wright Osborne, William R. Carter, Katherine Munhall, Clara Colby, Leslie Pinckney Hill, Booker T. Washington, Jennie McKinney, Mrs. D.B. Williams, Adella Hunt Logan, Martha Schofield, Lyman Ward, and Harriet Taylor...
Dates: 1910

Correspondence, 1911

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents Includes a letter from Seraphine Dewey at the American Mission in Mardin, Turkey, about the state of the orphanage, two children that Howland sponsored, and photographs of the children and the mission yard (March 14). The letter also discusses men between 20-25 trying to escape conscription if they marry orphans, and how many young girls were recently married across the city. Correspondents include William E. Benson, Ellen Mussey, Jane E Thompson, Rebecca Taliaferro, A. Gertrude Flanders,...
Dates: 1911

Correspondence, 1912

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8-9
Scope and Contents Includes a letter from Seraphine Dewey at the American Mission in Mardin, Turkey, about the death of Esleem, a woman Howland had sponsored, and Wordie, who had recently married. Includes photographs of Esleem and Wordie (September 25). Correspondents include Caroline Putnam, Emily C. Wheeler, Mary McLeod Bethune, Harriet Taylor Upton, Sallie Ely, Henry D. Davidson, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker T. Washington, Emanuel M. McDuffie, A.W. Nicholson, Leslie Pinckney Smith, W.S. Montgomery, Emma...
Dates: 1912

Correspondence, 1913

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10-12
Scope and Contents Includes correspondence from Jane E. Thompson about the death of Jennie Dean (May),. Correspondents include Laurence C. Jones, Arthur W. Mitchell, Caroline Putnam, Emma M. Gillett, Emanuel M. McDuffie, Adella H. Logan, Nettie Lovisa White, Eliza R. Whiting, Cornelia Bowen, A. Eugene Thompson, William Frost, Anna Stanton, Jane E. Thompson, William R. Holtzclaw, A.W. Nicholson, Eliza Hussey, Clara Colby, Katherine Munhall, William R. Carter, Emily C. Wheeler, Henry D. Davidson, Leslie Pinckney...
Dates: 1913

Correspondence, 1914

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include William E. Benson, Cornelia Bowen, Arabella Carter, William H. Holtzclaw, William James, Addie Jayne, Laurence C. Jones, Martin Menafee, A.W. Nicholson, and Caroline Putnam, among others.

Dates: 1914

Correspondence, 1915-01 - 1915-09

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include William E. Benson, M.C. Calhoun, Seraphine Dewey, Sallie Ely, William H. Holtzclaw, Laurence C. Jones, Adella H. Logan, Martin Menafee, A.W. Nicholson, Caroline Putnam, Anna Howard Shaw, and Lyman Ward, among others.

Dates: 1915-01 - 1915-09

Correspondence, 1916

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents

Some letters address the death of Booker T. Washington in 1915. Correspondents include Henry D. Davidson, Ernest T. Eaton, William J. Edwards, Josephine Eschenbrenner, Alfred J. Griffin, William H. Holtzclaw, Addie Jayne, William James, Emanuel M. McDuffie, Martin Menafee, Katherine Munhall, A.W. Nicholson, Ethel Phelps, Lyman Ward, and Emily C. Wheeler, among others.

Dates: 1916

Correspondence, 1917

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 16
Scope and Contents

Includes a photocopy of a letter from Anna Howard Shaw calling the Silent Sentinels (a group of women who protested in front of the White House for women's suffrage) the "silliest thing a sane body of women ever did" (January 31). Correspondents include William R. Carter, A. Gertrude Flanders, Emma M. Gillett, Laurence C. Jones, Martin Menafee, Robert R. Moton, Mary B. Owen, Emily C. Wheeler, Alice L. White, Florence E. Wilbur, and T.C. Williams, among others.

Dates: 1917

Correspondence, 1918 - 1919

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 17
Scope and Contents

Correspondents include Alice Stone Blackwell, A. Gertrude Flanders, William James, Emanuel M. McDuffie, Martin Menafee, Edna L. Nicholson, Mary B. Owen, Florence E. Wilbur, and Georgia Washington, among others.

Dates: 1918 - 1919

Correspondence, 1920

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

Many letters celebrate the passing of national Prohibition and mentions of influenza. Correspondents include William J. Edwards, Thomas R. Husk, Addie Jayne, Martin Menafee, Harriet A. Mills, Katherine Munhall, A.W. Nicholson, Mary B. Owen, A.S. Steele, and Florence E. Wilbur, among others.

Dates: 1920