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Box 1

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Contains 38 Results:

Correspondence, 1883

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1883

Correspondence, 1884

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1884

Correspondence, 1885

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1885

Correspondence, 1886 - 1887

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 31
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from D. A. Pennock describing a meeting with Susan B. Anthony as well as updates to various publications. Correspondents include D.E. Collins, Amanda Sanford Hickey, H. Hussey, Lydia King, Carrie Lacy, Mary Reed, Anna Searing, Harriette Shattuck, and Charlotte Smith, among others.

Dates: 1886 - 1887

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