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Includes photocopy of a pledge against alcohol and narcotics, signed by Howland and many others. Correspondents include Amanda Sanford Hickey, Lydia King, Mary Reed, Anna Searing, and Alfreda Bosworth Withington, among others.

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...

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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.

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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.

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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).

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

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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.

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Includes correspondence from Sallie Holley and Caroline Putnam, among others.

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Includes a letter from Emma V. Brown discussing her thoughts on slavery (April 8); correspondence with Samuel Rhoads, Gulielma Breed, and Emma V. Brown regarding the building of a new school house by Myrtilla Miner; a letter from Caroline F. Putnam referencing Harriet Tubman as "Moses" and her desire to purchase a home in Auburn (June 18); and correspondence from former students at the Normal School for Colored Girls, among other letters.

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Includes correspondence from students at Oberlin; discussions of Howland starting a new school; discussions of the political situation and Civil War; and correspondence from former students at the Normal School for Colored Girls. Correspondents include Gulielma Breed, Emma V. Brown, and Samantha Nivison among others.