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Mariana Wright Chapman Family Papers
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Mariana Wright Chapman was born in New York City in 1843, the daughter of Quakers Aaron and Mary Willets Wright. She attended Friends Institute, later called Friends Seminary, until her family's move to Springboro, Ohio, in the early 1850s. She spent two years at Antioch College. In 1864 she married Noah H. Chapman under the care of Springboro Monthly Meeting. The young family moved east in 1880 and purchased a home in Brooklyn, New York.
As their three sons and two daughters got older, Mariana became active in the struggle for woman suffrage. Her interest had been aroused in the mid 1880s when she attended a women's suffrage meeting and was inspired by the speakers. She was eventually named President of the Women's Suffrage Association of Brooklyn and then resigned to take the office of president of the New York State Suffrage Association. She was also a member of the Brooklyn Women's Club from 1888 until her death, was a charter member of the New York League for Political Education, and was instrumental in founding the Friends Equal Rights Association. In addition to suffrage, she was also actively involved in other social and religious concerns, particularly prison reform, peace, and education. She died at her country home in Port Washington, New York, in 1907, after a long illness.
Noah H. Chapman was born in Ohio in 1836, the son of Joseph B. and Charlotte Haines Chapman. He worked in the dry goods business in Cincinnati, and, after the move to New York in 1880, was a member of the firm of what became Field, Chapman, & Co., commission merchants. He was also an Elder of New York Monthly Meeting.
Family papers of Mariana Wright Chapman. Includes her correspondence received while she was active in suffrage activities in New York State, 1893-1900, family letters, particularly between Mariana and Noah, and the correspondence of the Wrights, the Chapmans, and of her son, A.Wright Chapman. The collection also includes Mariana's journals from 1895-1900, that of Caroline Willets, 1842-1846, and as well as suffrage memorabilia, family copybooks and albums, and financial records, including an account book of the Manhasssett Association of Relief, 1861-1871.
Gift, Anne Chapman Booth, 2006.
Gift, Estate of Anne Chapman Booth, 2007.
Gift, Estate of Anne Chapman Booth, 2014.017.
Most of the suffrage correspondence was contained in a letter file, filed alphabetically by correspondant. A few later letters from co-suffragists were also found with family correspondence and were filed with the former.
Photographs which were received with this collection have been removed and filed separately, PA138.
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- Chapman family
- Willets family
- Wright family
- Hicks, Rachel, 1789-1878
- Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
- Chapman, Noah H. (Noah Haines), 1836-1914
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
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- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
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8 pages. In 1895, Martha R. Almy was Vice-President-at-Large of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Almy lived in Jamestown, N.Y., and was involved in legislative lobbying on behalf of suffrage. Letter discusses anti-suffrage hearing.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.)
6 pages. In 1895, Martha R. Almy was Vice-President-at-Large of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Includes a lot of detail about her legislative work regarding New York State suffrage campaign. Remarks that many adversaries of theirs were involved with the Anti-Platt faction, with Elihu Root as a leading spirit. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
Relevant locations: Jamestown (N.Y.)
7 pages. In 1895, Martha R. Almy was Vice-President-at-Large of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Almy lived in Jamestown, N.Y., and was involved in legislative lobbying on behalf of suffrage. Letter talks about criticism of suffrage amendment.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Jamestown (N.Y.)
3 pages. In 1895, Martha R. Almy was Vice-President-at-Large of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Almy lived in Jamestown, N.Y., and was involved in legislative lobbying on behalf of suffrage. Typed excerpts describe Almy's activities as part of the Association.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Almy, Martha R., 1850-
Relevant locations: Jamestown (N.Y.); New York (State)
2 pages. Mary S. Anthony played an important role in the women's rights movement in the 19th century and was Susan B. Anthony's sister. Thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for her hospitality. Notes that she has insisted that Mrs. Catt attend "Our State Convention" rather than go to Colorado. Expresses anxiety and excitement about the State Convention (of the New York State Women Suffrage Association) and describes it. Praises Mrs. Greenleaf for her work supporting Susan B. Anthony.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
7 pages. Mary S. Anthony played an important role in the women's rights movement in the 19th century and was Susan B. Anthony's sister. Discusses her and Susan B. Anthony's stay with Mariana Wright Chapman and her aversion to alcohol, particularly in her role as a suffrage activist.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Temperance; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.); New York (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Mary S. Anthony played an important role in the women's rights movement in the 19th century and was Susan B. Anthony's sister. Discusses state versus county asylum system and woman's suffrage campaign.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Fragment. Mary S. Anthony played an important role in the women's rights movement in the 19th century and was Susan B. Anthony's sister. Discusses distributing literature and fundraising banquets; mentions the "Sherbert Episode" when she was served alcohol (see Mary S. Anthony letter to Mariana Wright Chapman, A00180005).
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Mary S. Anthony played an important role in the women's rights movement in the 19th century and was Susan B. Anthony's sister. Encloses payment of pledge from Rochester Political Equality Club and decries lack of funds (enclosure no longer attached). Discusses the opportunity to engage with working class women about suffrage.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Fragment. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She writes that the recipient must take advantage of the opportunity to be in Des Moines and learn from the western women to help their cause, noting that "what we all need is interchange with those situated unlike ourselves."
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Women--Suffrage
1 page. Possibly a fragment. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She writes that her lecture has been postponed, so she is going to Albany for the sole purpose of visiting the recipient.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Gives Chapman Catt's address at the National American Woman Suffrage Association and recommends a route to her home; mentions Chapman Catt's tendency toward prompt action; explains why Chapman Catt chose not to take her husband's name after marriage.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Asserts that Miss Beckwith cannot be President of Kings Co. Woman's Suffrage Association but that she must be elected, and that delegates must be appointed by the State President, Mrs. Greenleaf. Written on National-American Woman Suffrage Association stationery.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage
1 page. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She will present at Chapman's meeting on the 17th at 8.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Written on National American Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Hopes Mrs. Catt will be at the State Convention in Brooklyn and is disappointed that Catt was not invited to speak. Rev. Anna Shaw will speak in Dr. Gregg's Church on the 12th. Susan B. hopes that Chapman will send notes to liberal ministers so that they might tell their audiences about the program.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; National American Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Mentions an upcoming convention in Brooklyn that she will be attending and says they must "put our heads together to plan the best kind of . . . campaign."
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Thanks for her hospitality and compliments to the family. Anthony and Mrs. Greenleaf dined with Mrs. Stanton. Asks her to send copies of the Brooklyn papers concerning Mrs. Greenleaf's address.
Subjects: Greenleaf, Jean Brooks, 1831-
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Her adopted niece, Rachel Foster Avery, has secured an $800 annuity for her with gifts from her friends.
Subjects: Avery, Rachel Foster, 1858-1919
Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.)
1 page. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She requests that her secretary, Emma B. Sweet, be made a regular or alternate New York delegate to the Convention at Des Moines to help New York appear as strong as possible. Wishes that they had the power to prevent Joseph Choate from going to the US Senate; "I would rather have a henchman of Tammany than that lordly, aristocratic, wire-pulling, Constitutional-Convention President."
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage; Choate, Joseph Hodges, 1832-1917
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She had to be reminded of her pledge to raise the balance of New York's $1000 pledge but is now writing begging letters. Has written to Mrs. Catt and Mrs. Upton to send their statements. The meeting in Idaho may be credited to the National's work there, "which then and there clinched the nail in the coffin of the enemy"; relates details of the National's activities.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Fund raising
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She clarifies that it is important that Mariana Wright Chapman comes to Des Moines at an earlier date than planned. Mentions Mrs. Catt and fundraising in New York. Discusses suffrage movement strategy and how to focus money and resources to serve practical purposes, such as making an impact in the state of Iowa.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
1 page. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Discussion of strategy to pressure the legislature to submit an amendment securing women's suffrage in an upcoming 1898 election. Particular emphasis on holding conventions in the state of Iowa.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Thinks that asking for Presidential suffrage is impractical, and it might threaten the broader campaign; she doesn't think that the National Association has the courage to oppose Mr. Blackwell. Opposes Mrs. Blake's going before the legislative committees and believes that she has usurped her authority to act for the State Association. Comments on the Edwin C. Pierce tract that Mariana Wright Chapman sent.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She will go to Albany.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
3 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Fifty chapters and preface have gone to the printer's, and their household has been greatly reduced. It "is not the negroes hour but the Cuban's hour," and although she is glad to have the former "will there come woman's hour?"
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
1 page. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Invites Mariana Wright Chapman to stay with her in Brooklyn on March 29th. Will leave for New York on March 4th and stay with her cousins.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Federation of Clubs honored her with chairmanship of the Committee on "Political Study," so she would like Mariana Wright Chapman to give a five minute talk. Also asking Mrs. Mills, Miss Shaw, Mrs. Blake, and several others.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (State)
4 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She gave a half hour talk at the American Federation of Labor and had a very good reception; they will probably adopt a resolution with the help of Mr. Gompers. Desires Mariana Wright Chapman to get two petitions signed so that one each can be presented in the Assembly and Senate. Heard Mrs. Kate Gannett Wells of Boston, anti-suffragist, speak on what women of the 19th century owe to women of the 20th.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Wells, Kate Gannett, 1838-1911
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She writes that she is shocked to learn that the Dankers have both passed away.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
2 pages. Invitation to a birthday party and public meeting in celebration of Susan B. Anthony's 80th birthday. The second page describes how guests can travel with reduced railroad rates and asks invitees to RSVP.
Subjects: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: Washington (D.C.); Philadelphia (Pa.)
2 pages. Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. She talks about Sarah Anthony Burtis, a Quaker, whom she calls "the real secretary" of the first convention held in 1848.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
3 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. She writes that she is thinking of Mariana Wright Chapman and her "martyrdom at Albany with the greatest sympathy." She discusses planning "the breakfast."
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.)
8 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. She thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for her suggestions accompanying Mrs. Lynch's letter, adding that she believes Mrs. Howland would be an excellent person to do the work indicated. She also discusses club business.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Jefferson (N.H.)
3 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. She asks Mariana Wright Chapman to read over a speech she sent and to make suggestions and corrections.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
5 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. Discusses renting a space from the YWCA for organizational use.
Subjects: Young Women's Christian Association; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. Discusses an invitation to send a representative to the National Convention of Isabella Study Clubs in Chicago; there was a unanimous decision to send Mariana Wright Chapman as a friendly visitor.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. She has just returned home. Mentions strategy for an upcoming business meeting on January 16; wants to gain enough signatures to ratify an action before this meeting. In particular, might secure a signature from a Democrat; this "would weigh much politically."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
8 pages. Helen H. Backus was President of the Brooklyn Woman's Club from 1892-1893. She describes traveling to the mountains where she feels rejuvenated. She is mourning the deaths of several people. She also discusses poetry, her recent activities, and "the Club."
Subjects: Travel; Death; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Jefferson (N.H.)
3 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. She regrets to inform Chapman that her mother, Lucy Stone, is too ill to accept her invitation and too ill for Blackwell to leave her.
Subjects: Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.); Cincinnati (Ohio)
2 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Dictated letter. Blackwell is compiling a memoir about her mother, Lucy Stone. Thanks Chapman for forwarding a letter written by Stone. Describes the materials being used for the memoir.
Subjects: Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Apologizes for accidentally printing someone else's article rather than an article by Chapman on the same subject.
Subjects: Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870); Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
2 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Discusses articles about Mrs. Johnson being shared with other periodicals; mentions the English Parliament.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Reporters and reporting; Johnson, Helen Kendrick, 1844-1917; Johnson, Rossiter, 1840-1931; Great Britain. Parliament
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
2 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. She discusses Helen Kendrick Johnson's book, "Woman and the Republic," expressing that she feels "pretty wrathful" about the book's contents and points out its factual inaccuracies. Refers to a "confidential" message Chapman has sent her about the Meridian Club.
Subjects: Johnson, Helen Kendrick, 1844-1917; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
2 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. Discusses a letter that was signed by multiple women to be printed in the Women's Journal.
Subjects: Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870); National American Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: Adams (Mass.)
4 pages. Alice Stone Blackwell was a suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate. Written on Woman's Journal stationery. She apologizes for not including a fuller account of the anniversary of the Brooklyn Woman's Club in the Woman's Journal. Discusses the Journal's work with the suffrage movement and her belief that the argument of the "Antis" in Albany is feeble and inconsistent.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870); Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
2 pages. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a minister, author, and women's rights advocate. Expresses sentiments against war, primarily in the context of war against Spain.
Subjects: War; Spanish-American War (1898)
3 pages. Antoinette Brown Blackwell was a minister, author, and women's rights advocate. Invites Chapman and Miss Mills to lunch; discusses her choice to cede suffrage work to a younger generation and focus on other issues, for she believes that the work of suffrage is "about finished"; says that she neither deserves or desires the laurels of the suffrage successes.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Blackwell, Antoinette Louisa Brown, 1825-1921
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Henry Browne Blackwell was a economic and social reformer; he published the Woman's Journal with his wife, Lucy Stone. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman for contributions to Lucy Stone's table at the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association bazaar.
Subjects: Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893; Women--Suffrage; Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
3 pages. The daughter of noted suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch was a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer, and an advocate for labor reform. Offers to speak at Mariana Wright Chapman's Suffrage Club on the subject of "Women's Work in Colonial Times and Today." Dated approximately 1897.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and Clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. The daughter of noted suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch was a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer, and an advocate for labor reform. She thanks Chapman for an invitation to lunch in Brooklyn but says that she still is unsure of her schedule for the month. She is giving a lecture at Vassar on February 11th. Congratulates Chapman on the success of the Des Moines convention and expresses optimism about the results of that success. Jokes that, in response to opposition to the suffrage movement, she would like to "naturalize as a British Subject and shake the dust of this undemocratic...state off [her] feet forever." Dated approximately 1897.
Subjects: Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940; Women--Suffrage; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. The daughter of noted suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch was a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer, and an advocate for labor reform. She writes that Chapman's luncheon will remain one of her most pleasant memories of her visit to America. She plans to attend the meeting on Tuesday. Dated approximately 1897.
Subjects: Blatch, Harriot Stanton, 1856-1940
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
5 pages. The daughter of noted suffragist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot Stanton Blatch was a leader in the woman suffrage movement, a writer, and an advocate for labor reform. She describes women's voting rights in England and the Parliamentary vote. She also recommends books to Chapman. Dated approximately 1897.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Great Britain. Parliament
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Great Britain
1 page. W.M. Palmer was the secretary to the mayor of Brooklyn, Frederick W. Wurster. On behalf of Wurster, Palmer asks Mariana Wright Chapman to suggest women to fill positions on the Board of Education.
Subjects: Women in education; Wurster, Frederick W., 1850-1917
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Leonard R. Welles was the police commissioner for the Brooklyn Police Department. He writes in response to her inquiries concerning covered police wagons for women prisoners and women's quarters in prisons.
Subjects: Women prisoners; Prison reformers; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Frederick W. Wurster was the mayor of Brooklyn, New York, from 1896-1897. He asks Mariana Wright Chapman to represent Brooklyn "as one of the Commission" to the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville. He desires Chapman's presence at the first meeting of the Commission in the Brooklyn Mayor's Office on May 6th.
Subjects: Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. John Graham Brooks was an American sociologist, political reformer, and author. He provides details about a course he is to give in New York.
Subjects: Brooks, John Graham, 1846-1938
Relevant locations: Cambridge (Mass.); New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Accepts Mariana Wright Chapman's invitation to dinner, and states that her husband will also be there unless he does not return from Florida in time. Says that she has been writing her name as Carrie Chapman-Catt (her husband's last name was Catt) and signs her name in this way.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Has been ill with tonsillitis. Has written to Mrs. Avery for credentials.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She accepts plans to meet Mariana Wright Chapman on "The Idlewild" the following Friday and to bring a gown that is being made for an event on Saturday. She reports that a recent conference in Staten Island "didn't amount to much."
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Bensonhurst (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Declines Mariana Wright Chapman's invitation to a luncheon in order to prepare for the upcoming convention. Won't be able to meet Mrs. Blatch. She is losing her kitchen help: "I am much of the opinion that 'professional reformer' should be 'old maids' or 'widows without encumbrances."
Subjects: Household employees; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Discusses preparations for an upcoming event, including notice of Miss Shaw's itinerary. Says that meetings in Baltimore have not been financially successful.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Baltimore (Md.); New York (N.Y.); Ellenville (N.Y.)
4 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Apologizes for and clarifies statements she made concerning suffrage.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Lets Mariana Wright Chapman know she missed her party because she did not see her letter about it in time to RSVP. Says she will be attending the St. Louis Republican convention for the next week and wants to meet with Mariana Wright Chapman in two Fridays' time.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Expresses regret at having missed the opportunity to run into Mariana Wright Chapman at Miss Davies' dress shop. Expresses mixed emotions about her upcoming work and travel plans.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947;
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Due to her work, she declines Mariana Wright Chapman's invitation to meet in Brooklyn. Promises Mariana Wright Chapman to meet her after her work is done and after she has returned from travel in November.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Sends Mariana Wright Chapman a list of financial contributors to National American Woman Suffrage Association. States that they will be able to get out of debt without raising current contributions but does not want to ask State Association of New York to help with money "as we shall expect further favors from New York next year."
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage; National American Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Discusses the significance of Traffic Associations towards securing rates for conventions of women. Will meet them on the train to Des Moines in Wheeling or Chicago as she has to speak at State Conventions in Maryland and West Virginia.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Congresses and conventions
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She writes a letter to committee members that modifies information from a July 14th letter. Introduces ideas for creating "a series of lessons suitable to be conducted in the club," writing a template for conducting group meetings, and creating pamphlets. Asks committee members to bring ideas and resources to the meeting the following Monday.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Cannot stay at Heronwood for long due to her work load. Her baggage at Chautauqua has gone astray.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Dictated letter concerning the 3rd year's course of study, including pamphlets to be included and costs.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Temperance; Education
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Dictated letter. Catt enclosed the preliminary announcement of the Course of Study with with changes based on Chapman's suggestions (see Carrie Chapman Catt letter of 1898-07-26). Catt asks if the Annual Meeting will be held later that the "regular time" and states that if it is later, she has a suggestion that could help out Chapman financially but does not state the suggestion.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; National American Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Catt wants to hold a meeting with Mariana Wright Chapman and the Course of Study Committee at the National American Woman Suffrage Association office.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Presents budget guidelines, a program, and an agenda for upcoming meetings. Asks members to write in their votes on which topics to discuss in meetings; to vote on whether the committee should adopt Bascomb's Social Theory as the "Text Book" for meetings; and to send any additional suggestions.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Discusses various aspects regarding the structure of a "Course of Study." Asks for the thoughts of the Course of Study Committee.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Pamphlets; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She regrets being unable to make a meeting, and informs Chapman that an article is about to be printed. Catt also hopes a wealthy Quaker will donate to the suffragist cause.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage; Quakers
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She tells Mariana Wright Chapman that she does not plan to run for re-election to her position. Describes how her decision was impacted by the fact that campaigns in Washington and South Dakota are quieting down because of those states' lack of support for women's suffrage. Also discusses the National American Woman Suffrage Association's precarious financial situation. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman for advice about handling the budget and the fees owed by the organization.
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She tells Chapman that she will be glad to speak for Chapman on the date she requested. Catt states, "we are deep in suffrage affairs" and says she hopes "we are doing some good."
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Helena (Mont.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Requests answers to enclosed questions.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. She is too busy to stay with Mariana Wright Chapman. Hopes to be at the Richmond and Buffalo Conventions.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Women--Suffrage; Congresses and conventions
3 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Feels that the International Suffrage Alliance has accomplished considerable good, with three new associations in Switzerland, Hungary, and Austria. Wiants Mariana Wright Chapman to know that she has done noble service for the suffrage cause, even though she feels that she is no longer able to do much.
Subjects: International Woman Suffrage Alliance; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Reminder of dues to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance. Includes a handwritten note of support.
Subjects: International Woman Suffrage Alliance; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Asks Mary W. Chapman whether her mother, Mariana Wright Chapman, "would like . . . to have her name stand upon our lists" at the International Woman Suffrage Alliance "for another year." Sends her love to Mariana Wright Chapman and to her mother.
Subjects: International Woman Suffrage Alliance; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Mary W. Chapman was Mariana Wright Chapman's daughter. Includes a receipt for the membership payment for Mariana Wright Chapman. Says, "I have certainly loved [Chapman] as I have loved few women, and no one in her circle of acquaintances has felt more grieved over the affliction which has come to her." Catt also talks about her own mother who is ailing.
Subjects: Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Carrie Chapman Catt was a prominent leader in the women's suffrage movement. Mary W. Chapman was Mariana Wright Chapman's daughter. Thank-you note for the picture of the late Mariana Wright Chapman.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Note enclosing contribution for "New York Woman State Suffrage Association."
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. John C. Clark was a lawyer who served as the secretary for Citizens Union. He acknowledges receipt of Chapman's letter enclosing signatures for the Seth Low ballots.
Subjects: Low, Seth, 1850-1916
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Frances Wait Comstock writes that their league is at last established and has fourteen members. She hopes to meet Chapman someday.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Queens (New York, N.Y.)
6 pages. Martha A. B. Conine was the first woman elected to the Colorado House of Representatives; she represented Arapahoe County and served from 1897-1898. Conine had been a prominent leader in the women's clubs of Denver before her election. Thanks Chapman for her hospitality and details of her travels.
Subjects: Conine, Martha A. B., 1849-1910; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Denver (Colo.); New York (State)
4 pages. Mary E. Craigie was chair of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association Legislative Committee. She states that she "cannot undervalue the importance of planting the seed of thought" as a method of educating and organizing. She enjoyed her visit.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Martha S. Cranston (1845–1926) was a suffragist and the superintendent of the Delaware Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Would like Chapman to speak to the Delaware Equal Suffrage Association at a state convention. Dated approximately 1897.
Subjects: Delaware Equal Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Newport (Del.); Wilmington (Del.)
3 pages. Is traveling in Germany and comments on universal military service and the difficulties in visiting German prisons.
Subjects: Compulsory military service; Prisons; Germany; Draft
Relevant locations: Bayreuth (Germany); Bavaria (Germany)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Expresses her thoughts on the election of certain women to positions in the organization and offers to continue to serve in her role since Miss Huntington will not be able to replace her. States that she has enclosed a note about a meeting at Geneva.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
4 pagees. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. She says she is glad to have not been re-elected vice-president at large for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association because she does not have "any desire for public life," and she has been kept at home due to her "domestic circumstances." She discusses problems between her and Mrs. (Lillie Devereux) Blake. Curtis also mentions her belief for the need for a "qualified suffrage."
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914; Blake, Lillie Devereux, 1833-1913; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Discusses an upcoming event in Washington that Curtis hopes to attend, mentions her opinion on an educational qualification for suffrage, voices her attitudes towards the present senate, and expresses her wish that she could vote for Seth Low.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage; Suffrage; Education
Relevant locations: West Newton (Mass.)
4 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Discusses her upcoming speech at the State Convention and her opinion that only properly educated women should be enfranchised and that men should be likewise restricted.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914; Women--Suffrage; Equality; Congresses and conventions; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Ashfield (Mass.)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Writes that she has made up her mind that she will publicly advocate for suffrage only for educated women "for the future safety of the country" and adds that Elizabeth Cady Stanton plans to do the same. Expresses that she thinks that the disenfranchisement of women as a whole is a better situation than a situation where "illiterate" women would have the right to vote.
Subjects: Women--Education; Women--Suffrage; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Ashfield (Mass.)
3 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Accepts Mariana Wright Chapman's invitation to dine with her and others on January 13th. Expresses disagreement about the idea of New York State Woman Suffrage Association making a larger contribution to the National American Woman Suffrage Association because they are already low on funds. Suggests that Mariana Wright Chapman should join her in protesting the actions of Mrs. (Lillie Devereux) Blake.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Blake, Lillie Devereux, 1833-1913
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. She expresses that she is "becoming more and more impressed with the fact that we should take some stand regarding an educational qualification or some such test." She states that all the "most able men" whom she has talked to of late "seem to be under the impression that the suffrage should be limited in some way."
Subjects: Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914; Women--Suffrage; Education
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Discusses whether they can afford to give Miss Mills a raise and the general state of the treasury. Mentions that she and Miss Howland are amending the Constitution.
Subjects: Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914; Women employees
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Discusses starting the new political equality club as a study class "for the sake of the weaker members" and the logistics involved; says that even non-suffragists feel the importance of such study. Curtis is in Plymouth going to various summer school lectures.
Subjects: Women--Education; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Plymouth (Mass.)
4 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. Responds to a request for advice about where to hold an upcoming convention. States that it is necessary for the women's suffrage movement to make clear their views on topics such as educational requirements for suffrage and imperialism/anti-imperialism but expresses ambivalence about what those views are or should be. Is ill and will not be able to attend the convention in person.
Subjects: Women--Education; Women--Suffrage; Imperialism; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Ashfield (Mass.)
4 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Discussion of jail committees concerning arrested women and police matrons.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Women prisoners; Women--Services for
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. She is unable to make a gathering with Chapman because of prior engagements.
Subjects: Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Staten Island (N.Y.)
4 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. She apologizes because she cannot accompany Chapman to Albany or participate in other active work; she is suffering in the nerves of her head and fears breaking down in public.
Subjects: Doane, William Croswell, 1832-1913; Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.); Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. She is disappointed to inform Chapman that she is laid up with an illness and will not be able to "see you all on Wednesday."
Subjects: Curtis, Elizabeth Burrill, 1861-1914
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Elizabeth Curtis Burrill was a suffragist. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association stationery. She writes that Elizabeth Cady Stanton would like to schedule a lunch with her and Chapman to discuss resolutions.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Staten Island (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Emily L. DeGarmo tells Chapman she does not yet think it is time to organize "as public sentiment is not better, and the excitement of the last or rather first talk has not yet become a settled opinion." She asks for Miss Chanler's address (likely Margaret Chanler Aldrich), so she can inquire to her how she can "best help her." Mentions that she received two letters from Mrs. Babcock.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Fishkill (N.Y.)
4 pages. Thanks Chapman for speeches she, Mrs. Mills, and Mrs. Seasing gave in DeGarmo's town; describes at length the reactions from local women who had not previously thought much about suffrage. Mentions Dr. Mary Walker, "progressive" women, bicycles, and bloomers. Discusses clothing, noting that "the platform of the women's Convention . . . contained only elegantly dressed ladies."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Progressivism (United States politics); Walker, Mary Edwards, 1832-1919; Speeches, addresses, etc.; Clothing and dress
Relevant locations: Fishkill (N.Y.)
4 pages. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, who was the President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association at the time of the letter, ask Chapman to stand as a candidate for presidency of the NYSWSA. Though she acknowledges herself as an equally qualified person to be president, Greenleaf states that she must take care of her husband and his work, so she cannot "give such attention to my official duties as I ought."
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Charlotte (Rochester, N.Y.)
4 pages. Jean Brooks Greenleaf, who was the President of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association at the time of the letter, expresses happiness that Mariana Wright Chapman is running for president of the NYSWSA. Describes the schedule and program for the upcoming state convention in Rochester set to take place November 17-19th, 1896.
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Rochester (N.Y.)
1 page. Jean Brooks Greenleaf was a suffragist who served as president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman to give a speech at the Rochester Political Equality Club banquet on November 20, 1896.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
2 pages. Jean Brooks Greenleaf was a suffragist who served as president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. She expresses friendship and affection. Describes recent happenings in her life and her relative lack of work to do. Is "glad to get so good a report" of a recent meeting in Hudson.
Subjects: Greenleaf, Jean Brooks, 1831-; Women--Societies and clubs
4 pages. Jean Brooks Greenleaf was a suffragist who served as president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. She returns the money Chapman sent her for the "books" which she says were a contribution. She advises Chapman that Mr. Skinner "is a friend even though it appears otherwise." She expresses concern about finances and says that the contribution boxes are not being filled, unlike "the old days."
Subjects: Greenleaf, Jean Brooks, 1831-; Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928; New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage
3 pages. Jean Brooks Greenleaf was a suffragist who served as president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Congratulates Chapman on her re-election as president of the NYSWSA and expresses regret that she could not attend to cast a ballot.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
2 pages. Florence Howe Hall was a writer, critic, and lecturer on women's suffrage. Arranges to meet with Chapman in Brooklyn to speak about suffrage work in New Jersey, especially school suffrage.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; New Jersey
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Florence Howe Hall was a writer, critic, and lecturer on women's suffrage. Invites Mariana Wright Chapman to give a speech at a convention she is planning. Notes that Carrie Chapman Catt suggested Hall's speech might be needed at a convention Mariana Wright Chapman is planning, and asks whether she may give it.
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Hall, Florence Howe, 1845-1922; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.)
2 pages. Fannie Tod Helmuth writes that she would like to meet with Chapman and discuss women's suffrage.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
5 pages. Mary Hillard Loines was an activist for women's suffrage and prison reform. She discusses the women's suffrage hearing in Albany and expresses her belief that their arguments will sway those who are currently against the cause.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Loines, Mary Hillard, 1844-1944
Relevant locations: London (England)
8 pages. Mary Hillard Loines was an activist for women's suffrage and prison reform. She discusses her experiences attending suffrage meetings in London and how she is spending her time socially.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Loines, Mary Hillard, 1844-1944
Relevant locations: London (England)
8 pages. Mary Hillard Loines was an activist for women's suffrage and prison reform. She discusses her frustrations at having a June hearing canceled and expresses her regrets at being away in London and unable to help.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Loines, Mary Hillard, 1844-1944
Relevant locations: London (England)
3 pages. Mary Hillard Loines was an activist for women's suffrage and prison reform. She discusses a potential upcoming hearing with Mariana Wright Chapman and says she is "ready to take the offensive."
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Miami (Fla.)
2 pages. Mary Hillard Loines was an activist for women's suffrage and prison reform. She expresses her regrets to Mariana Wright Chapman of missing her at a meeting. She also informs Chapman that other members should be responsible for making arrangements for a hearing.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)
2 pages. Written on the letterhead of Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of the Department of Public Education of the State of New York, for whom she was the secretary. Aspinwall Hilton acknowledges receipt of a letter from Chapman on behalf of Skinner. She states that she knows "of no man who is a more sincere advocate of justice and fair play for women than Mr. Skinner."
Subjects: Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.)
3 pages. Written on the letterhead of Charles R. Skinner, Superintendent of the Department of Public Education of the State of New York, for whom she was the secretary. Aspinwall Hilton is concerned that "our leaders in the suffrage movement were very unwise to antagonize [Mr. Skinner] one of the truest and most useful friends we have ever had in our State." Commented that she had met Miss Anthony on a St. Lawrence steamer and was "pleased to find her as reasonable, clear-headed, and conservative as ever."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Feminism; Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928; Women educators
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.)
9 pages. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman to speak to her Tuesday Woman's Club, calling her a suffrage leader and prominent club woman. She mentions that her husband is the editor of a town paper that prints articles advocating equal suffrage.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Warren (Mass.)
5 pages. Julia M. Hitchcock writes that she belongs to a woman's "Tuesday Club" and seeks information from Chapman about the Brooklyn Woman's Club. She talks of how clubs are different in a small town versus the big city because city life offers "many fields for observation." She mentions two bitter opponents of suffrage in her club and an "anti" who will be giving a talk. Hitchcock wants to arrange for Chapman to give her club a talk and calls Chapman a "good club women" who is "in society," which goes far in making her acceptable to the Tuesday Club.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Warren (Mass.)
2 pages. Franklin Hooper was a biologist, geologist, and educator. Declines to form a delegation of Brooklyn men to travel to Albany "in the advocacy of the question of Suffrage for Women." Says he declines because his other projects demand immediate attention. Offers to travel alone and serve as a delegate in Albany.
Subjects: Hooper, Franklin William, 1851-1914; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Albany (N.Y.)
1 page. Franklin Hooper was a biologist, geologist, and educator. Requests Mariana Wright Chapman attend The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences meeting for Mrs. Julia Ward Howe's address on "Patriotism in American Literature."
Subjects: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Franklin Hooper was a biologist, geologist, and educator. Discusses the "Bill for Military Discipline" and Chapman's declination of a role on the Board of Education of New York City. Begs her to reconsider and even offers to meet with the mayor if necessary to get her to take the role.
Subjects: School boards; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Women public officers; Women in education
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Franklin Hooper was a biologist, geologist, and educator. Discusses opposing the proposed bill to introduce military drill into New York public schools.
Subjects: Women and war; Education
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Franklin Hooper was a biologist, geologist, and educator. Invitation to an address by Julia Ward Howe to be held at Association Hall regarding "Patriotism in American Literature," Hooper requests that individuals meet Howe at YMCA parlor early to walk her to Association Hall.
Subjects: Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910; Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York; Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Copy of pamphlet with the lyrics to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, which was sung during Julia Ward Howe's lecture on that day.
Subjects: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910; Battle hymn of the republic (Song)
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Emeline Smith Hicks was a suffragist. Thanks Chapman for life membership in New York State Woman Suffrage Association, calling it "one of the noblest bands of organized women on the face of the earth."
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Lansingburgh (N.Y.)
2 pages. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and suffragist. She discusses the difficulties of appealing to politicians who live far away about the suffragist cause. She also lets Chapman know that she will not be able to make the convention in Des Moines.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Howland, Emily, 1827-1929; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: Sherwood (N.Y.)
4 pages. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and suffragist. She thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for a photograph sent, mentions Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Mary Grew, Lucy Stone, Anna Shaw. Compares the event where the photograph was taken to the Geneva Convention.
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Women--Suffrage; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919; Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893
Relevant locations: Sherwood (N.Y.)
5 pages. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and suffragist. She writes letter directly to Mariana Wright Chapman about how she does not believe that politicians will care about passing their legislation, unless they can get constituents to become passionate about women's suffrage. She also mentions a Mrs. Potter, possibly Elizabeth Herndon Potter, who has a "good suffragist for a husband" and asks Chapman to remind Mrs. Potter about her.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Sherwood (N.Y.)
3 pages. Emily Howland was an abolitionist, philanthropist, educator, and suffragist. Responds to question about annual pledges. Expresses hopefulness at progress of Women's Suffrage movement. Mentions that she thinks "the most immediate work" can be "done at the west," while "here" (in the east) "we educate." Is glad to have representation in Albany, but only "if we can have one who will dignify our cause."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Education
Relevant locations: Sherwood (N.Y.); Albany (N.Y.)
4 pages. Dr. Mary D. Hussey was a founder and secretary of the State Women Suffrage Association in New Jersey. Admires Mariana Wright Chapman; says, "I feel proud of you not only as a suffragist but as a friend." Commented that Thaddeus Wakeman said "that men w'd always vote down W.S. while it was associated with restriction of any kind on their liberty."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Equality
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. Anna M. Jackson was deeply involved in reform activities in New York City. Recounts a conversation with Police Commissioner Smith about including a provision about "a probationary officer" in "the new charter." Asks Mariana Wright Chapman to send any additional resources on the subject and includes her address to the Commissioner with an explanatory note in case the Commissioner has forgotten the conversation. Provides her new mailing address.
Subjects: Jackson, Anna M. (Anna Margaret), 1848-1920; Prison reformers; Probation officers
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Anna M. Jackson was a Quaker who was deeply involved in reform activities in New York City. She discusses a committee meeting that Mariana Wright Chapman was not able to attend. She expresses concern that Chapman plans to withdraw completely from the committee, writing, "Now is a critical time with Friends and thy help is needed more than ever before. If we cannot next Summer get the Conference to eschew historical Quakerism, all talk about the glory of the past, and take up instead the duty of the future then we might as well give up trying to rebuild."
Subjects: Quakers; Society of Friends
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She discusses letters she received from various people.
Subjects: Jacobi, Mary Putnam, 1842-1906
Relevant locations: Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.); Long Island (N.Y.)
7 pages. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She discusses her social activities and how she still wishes to participate in the suffrage movement despite how busy she is.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women in community organization
Relevant locations: Port Washington (N.Y.); Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Mary Putnam Jacobi was a physician, teacher, scientist, writer, and suffragist. She discusses her thoughts on a suffrage meeting she attended to Mariana Wright Chapman.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Legislative bills
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Joseph J. Janney was a Quaker involved in social activism. He thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for the information she provided on electing police matrons in New York and speculates on how to advance the cause.
Subjects: Policewomen; Women in community organization
Relevant locations: Baltimore (Md.)
4 pages. Joseph J. Janney was a Quaker involved in social activism. He is concerned about the time allotted for their presentation on prison reform to Congress.
Subjects: Legislative bills; Prison reformers
Relevant locations: Baltimore (Md.)
2 pages. Otto Goodell Kelsey was a lawyer and politician. He informs Mariana Wright Chapman of an additional resolution, that of minority representation, to be heard along with the suffrage bill.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Legislative bills
Relevant locations: Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Otto Goodell Kelsey was a lawyer and politician. He informs Mariana Wright Chapman of the current state of a bill to be introduced to the Senate and mentions a slight change he made to the document.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Legislative bills
Relevant locations: Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Caroline B. Le Row was an educator and author. She requests Mariana Wright Chapman to advocate for more women to be appointed to the Board of Education.
Subjects: Women in education; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.). Board of Education
Relevant locations: Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She invites Mariana Chapman Wright to attend a meeting discussing a new law that will allow the New York police board to appoint "matrons" to station houses.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She insists Mariana Wright Chapman to meet with a Mrs. Curtis and hear what she has to say.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Lowell, Josephine Shaw, 1843-1905
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She accepts an invitation from Mariana Wright Chapman to meet for lunch and asks directions to her house.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She accepts Mariana Wright Chapman's request to read a paper on a Men's League as well as one on "working girls" at a Women's Club meeting.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Windsor (Vt.)
3 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She informs Mariana Wright Chapman of a conversation she had with a judge sympathetic to their cause for prison reform. She also requests Chapman to write to the Board of Leity Magistrates.
Subjects: Prison reformers; Probation officers
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She discusses logistics with Mariana Wright Chapman. Certain committees within their organization will contact specific societies.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She apologizes to Mariana Wright Chapman for verbally attacking the cause and insulting Chapman in the process.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She is requesting Mariana Wright Chapman to read two bills aloud at a meeting, as she is chairman of the organization.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She expresses her sympathy for Mariana Wright Chapman, who is ill and could not attend a meeting.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She discusses with Mariana Wright Chapman her efforts to petition in her neighborhood, and mentions a politician who is sympathetic to their cause.
Subjects: Women in community organization
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She sends her condolences to Mariana Wright Chapman over the death of her mother, Mary W. Wright.
Subjects: Death; Wright, Mary W. (Mary Willets), 1820-1904
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She tells Mariana Wright Chapman that they are "living under a tyranny" in New York but expresses her optimism for the coming "revolution" in November.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Josephine Shaw Lowell was a progressive reform leader, best known for creating the New York Consumers League in 1890. She requests Mariana Wright Chapman to allow the Woman's Municipal League in Manhattan to add her name to a list of individuals who would be willing to preside over some of their meetings.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
6 pages. Olive Thorne Miller was the pen name for Harriet Mann Miller, an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. She thanks Chapman for inviting her to stay with her and discusses travel arrangements.
Subjects: Travel
Relevant locations: Norridgewock (Me.); Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Olive Thorne Miller was the pen name for Harriet Mann Miller, an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. She thanks Chapman for the invitation to speak and discusses her recent speaking engagements.
Subjects: Women orators; Women scientists
Relevant locations: Brooklyn Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Martha Mott Lord was the daughter of noted abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott. She writes about providing objects to be sold to raise money and asks that the items not be listed as made my Lucretia Mott's daughter. In reference to Mott, she says, "Her name is connected to past history and should not be used to induce people to buy." She will also provide a quilt and some carpet rags made by Mott to exhibit if Chapman would like them.
Subjects: Women's rights; Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
Relevant locations: Manhattan Village (New York, N.Y.)
3 pages. Harriet May Mills was prominent American civil rights leader and women's rights activist. Mary W. Chapman was Mariana Wright Chapman's daughter. Mills expresses sympathy over the declining health of Mariana Wright Chapman. She inquires about making Chapman a life member of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, of which Chapman had served as president.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Syracuse (N.Y.)
4 pages. Harriet May Mills was prominent American civil rights leader and women's rights activist. Mary W. Chapman was Mariana Wright Chapman's daughter. Mills thanks Chapman for the donation of fifty dollars which makes her mother a life member of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. She expresses sympathy over Mariana Wright Chapman's failing health.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Syracuse (N.Y.); Port Washington (N.Y.)
3 pages. Hannah A. Plummer was Mariana Wright Chapman's cousin. She provides an account of a suffrage meeting she attended in Glencoe, Illinois, which featured prominent women activists from Chicago and Susan B. Anthony.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Glencoe (Ill.)
2 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He asks Mariana Wright Chapman to speak on the subject of "The New Militarism and Purity" at the annual meeting of the American Purity Alliance. He specifically asks that she talk about "the women of the native race" and "equality of rights for women in general." He adds that if she is unavailable on the day he listed for the meeting, then they may be able to reschedule to accommodate her.
Subjects: Women orators; American Purity Alliance; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.)
2 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for her paper on the Peace Movement in Europe and the United States which she has provided to the Half Yearly Meeting Philanthropic Session.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. He asks Mariana Wright Chapman to present on prison reform to the "Half Year Meeting" and "Philanthropic Session."
Subjects: Prison reformers; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.)
2 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Discusses an upcoming Quaker conference to be held at Swarthmore.
Subjects: Quakers; Society of Friends
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Encourages Mariana Wright Chapman, as well as Louisa Stabler, to go to an event. Discusses and encloses a description of a "very objectionable bill which has been sent to Albany by the so called 'Law & Order Society' of this City." Adds that "Our Alliance has already protested against its passage" (enclosure no longer attached).
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Stabler, Louisa M. (Louisa Merritt), 1826-1914
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Albany (N.Y.)
2 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Includes information about the upcoming National Purity Congress. Invites Mariana Wright Chapman to give a speech at the congress on the topic of "Equal Suffrage as Related to the Legal Aspects of the Purity Movement." Mentions a possible upcoming conference in New York in December and invites Mariana Wright Chapman to also give the same speech there. Apologizes for declining an invitation and discusses the upcoming Canada Conference Committee meeting.
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Women--Suffrage; Prostitution; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Powell, Aaron M. (Aaron Macy), 1832-1899
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Baltimore (Md.)
2 pages. Aaron M. Powell was a Quaker social reformer. Extends regrets that he was unable to attend the Prison Reform Committee meeting.
Subjects: Prison reformers; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. A pamphlet describing an bill that would allow the government to grant operating permits to District Inns, the "houses of ill fame" in New York City, with the requirement that these places will be subject to frequent inspections by a Board of Commissioners.
Subjects: Bills, Legislative; Red-light districts; Prostitution
Relevant locations: New York City (N.Y.)
1 page. Elbridge T. Gerry was a lawyer and reformer who was the grandson of U.S. Vice President Elbridge Gerry. J. Philip Berg was the opposing counsel in one of Gerry's cases. He announces his opposition to the "Act for the Protection of Health and the Prevention of Vice in New York City." Cites his belief that the act "would...give respectability to vice" as reason for his opposition.
Subjects: Gerry, Elbridge T. (Elbridge Thomas), 1837-1927; Prostitution
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Anna Rice Powell was the wife of Quaker social reformer Aaron M. Powell. Is sending a shoe case for the Lucretia Mott table at the coming fair. She thanks Mariana Wright Chapman for "the position [she] was to take in the Federation Gathering of the State Clerks in Albany admitting the colored members...It seems as though there were few to stand by the principle of Equal Rights for colored people in these days."
Subjects: Congresses and conventions; Equality--Social aspects; Equality
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.); Albany (N.Y.)
2 pages. Thomas Proctor was a scientist and ornithologist. Discusses evidence he has seen of women's feelings towards wearing bird feathers. "I believe that most of this humanizing sentiment operating for good towards our feathered friends is due to the laudable efforts of the Woman's Club."
Subjects: Birds--Conservation; Clothing and dress; Women--Societies and clubs; Brooks, John Graham, 1846-1938
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. Sarah Dwight Raymond reports Mariana Wright Chapman's nomination for presidency of the Brooklyn Woman's Club as "so unanimous as almost to resemble the trained chorus in an opera."
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Sarah Dwight Raymond informs Chapman of her nomination for presidency of the Brooklyn Woman's Club.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa was an Irish poet and political activist. Discusses canvassing for signatures on the suffrage petition and encountering anti-suffrage attitudes.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Mary Jane O'Donovan Rossa was an Irish poet and political activist. She thanks Chapman for letters, Woman's Journals, leaflets, and "good counsel." She hopes to profit from them and pass on the good word. She expresses that she would like to join an "equality club" but is not aware of any near her. She talks about the possibility of starting her own club per Chapman's suggestion but feels she is unequipped to do so without any prior club experience, even though she has been "devouring all the equal suffrage literature written."
Subjects: Woman's journal (Boston, Mass. : 1870); Women--Societies and clubs; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Pamphlets; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
2 pages. William M. F. Round was a journalist and reformer. Asks Mariana Wright Chapman to help him prepare for a series of prison addresses by providing resources on women prisoners.
Subjects: Prison reformers; women prisoners; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Mary Jay Schieffelin was the great-granddaughter of U.S. Founding Father John Jay. She sends sympathy to Mariana Wright Chapman over her recent health issues.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Northeast Harbor (Me.)
3 pages. Discussion of anti-suffragists and their effort to capture the Working Girls Clubs.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
5 pages. Discusses new tactics of the anti-suffragists. Makes plans for upcoming meetings and conventions. Mentions Grace Kimball of Vassar College, a physician and missionary.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
2 pages. Anna H. Shaw was a suffragist, temperance leader, and Methodist minister. Returns a Easter card that she suspects was not meant for her. Hopes for an end to the "cruel war."
Subjects: War; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
Relevant locations: Watkins Glen (N.Y.)
4 pages. Anna H. Shaw was a suffragist, temperance leader, and Methodist minister. She is unsure whether she will stay with Chapman or another woman after a lecture she is attending. She praises Chapman for her work with the Friends in Philadelphia.
Subjects: Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Philadelphia (Pa.)
12 pages. Isaac Sherwood was a Quaker. Long religious letter with references to Krishna and Osiris.
Subjects: Religions; Quakers
Relevant locations: Manhasset (N.Y.)
5 pages. Charles Rufus Skinner was was a politician who served as superintendent of the Department of Public Education of the State of New York and in the U.S. House of Representatives. Reply to a letter from Jessie J. Cassidy, a writer and suffragist, regarding "the township bill." He discusses the issues surrounding women voting in school board elections and expresses his support for their right to vote.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; School boards--Elections; Skinner, Charles Rufus, 1844-1928
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
3 pages. Sprague is ill with the "grippe" and cannot attend the convention in Washington. She agrees with Chapman that Dr. Armstrong should not serve as a delegate to the convention on behalf of her club and suggests another woman to fill the role.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention; Women--Societies and clubs; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: Buffalo (N.Y.)
4 pages. Martha J. Hadley Stebbins was a suffragist. Praises senators who support women's suffrage. Encloses instructions and information about fundraising for the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Also includes a list of locals to whom Chapman should send subscriptions for the Woman's Journal.
Subjects: New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Monroe County (N.Y.)
8 pages. Sarah L. Stilson was a teacher. She expresses anger that "Mr. Beecher" (most likely Henry Ward Beecher), has been slandered by some people calling him an anti-suffragist. She writes, "How can anybody with the slightest reasoning faculty be other than a suffragist?" She also talks of young girls who are taking up the subject and even showing interest in national affairs. She tells Chapman not to get discouraged, for she knows that "beyond this struggle is surely victory," even if it be 10 years from now or later.
Subjects: Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887; Women--Education; Women--Suffrage; Students
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Lucy Stone was a prominent orator, abolitionist, suffragist, and founder and publisher of the Woman's Journal. She comments on Mariana Wright Chapman's proposed name change to a society of which they are both members.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.)
3 pages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Since Miss Anthony will certainly resign in February, Stanton has heard a number of names proposed as President of the National Association: Mrs. Mariana Chapman, Mrs. Chapman Catt, Rev. Anna Shaw, Rev. Antoinette Blackwell, Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell, Lillie Devereux Blake, Mrs. Taylor Upton. She thinks that Mrs. Chapman Catt would be a good choice for a number of reasons, but does not wish her opinion considered because she has withdrawn from active work.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
6 pages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Mrs. Blatch is going away for the holidays so Chapman and Mrs. Catt should postpone their visit for the couple of weeks. She wants to talk over some points of social as well as political philosophy with them. Has cataracts in both eyes and is advised that she will be totally blind soon. Thinks Susan's book is "quite interesting," but needs much "pruning." States that Susan B. Anthony often says that Catt is the only one "who can fill her place 'in paying her own salary."' Closes by saying "there is much hard thankless work still ahead."
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
6 pages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. She tells Chapman about various leaflets and what audiences she thinks they are suitable for. She hopes she will live to see the movement's victory.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Pamphlets
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
6 pages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and a leading figure of the early women's rights movement. She discusses Lucretia Mott, Ernestine Rose, and others, as well as the suffrage movement as a whole.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880; Rose, Ernestine L. (Ernestine Louise), 1810-1892
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
6 pages. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. She would be happy to meet with Mariana Wright Chapman and Mrs. Chapman Catt when they return from Atlanta. Supports "educated suffrage" and believes it is suicidal to exclude "an army of intelligent, moral, humble patriotic women" while adding "masses of ignorant voters." She closes by saying, "We should conscientiously oppose the admission of another man until we are enfranchised."
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Pamphlets
Relevant locations: New York (State)
1 page. Addressed to "Dear friend." Requests that the recipient send her two synopses of differing lengths of their speech to be delivered at an upcoming Convention in Washington as well as some salient biographical information about the recipient.
Subjects: Speeches; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: Warren (Ohio)
4 pages. Phebe C. Wright was a Quaker who was involved in peace and suffrage movements. Summary of Wright's impressions of women's prisons. Believes "there ought to be a school for nursing in every Reformatory for women." Discusses upcoming meetings on women's suffrage and education.
Subjects: Prison reformers; Women prisoners; Prisons; Women--Suffrage; Education
Relevant locations: Sea Girt (N.J.)
Detailed description of a visit to West Point. Also mentions that much occupied with yearly meeting (NYYM), slightly fewer people stayed at their home
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Letters from Mary Anna, beginning June 1863. She signs Mariana in July. Between Sept. and Oct. 1863, the letters quickly become loving.
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Letter of Dec. 3 mentions a friend, Libbie Cheyney, whose fiancé was imprisoned in Libby Prison, Richmond, VA. Attended an event with violin and dancing.
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Letter to her brother Amos who is studying medicine in NYC. Says she would rather have been married in NY, but was convinced she must be married in Springboro in order to be married under the care of a meeting.
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Concerning Discipline details and planning for marriage of Noah and Mariana
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Mariana's parents are in NY to be with Mary's father, Amos Willets (1792-1864), at his deathbed. Mariana is caring for family at home including youngest brother John, born 1860. Writes of typhoid in Richmond, IN, and deaths in War, including son of William Gregg who lost a second son, killed in Sheridan's latest battle.
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Reports on temperance activities in Glendale
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Family news to her mother
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Letter to cousin in Springboro. Filled with sorrow for recent death of her father and brother, Amos' grief.
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Family letters written to daughter Mary at Bradford Academy, Mass.
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Family letter, discusses Atlanta Convention.
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Letters to family during travel in France and Italy
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Typed transcripts of her letters from Europe. In April, son Amos and his wife Dot joined them in London
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Letters from Atlantic City to her youngest child, married Henry Chandlee Turner
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Letter from M. O. Paine urges Mariana to "Make your mind your refuge against your heart"
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Describes parade and festivities on Broadway marking the laying of the cable
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Mocks the country life of Springboro compared with NY; social interests
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Family news. Says Rachel Hicks inquired about her mother (Mary W. Wright) - says Mary did most of the work whilst Rachel served as clerk, so will be very much missed by Hicks
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To daughter. Had glowing report from matron.
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Letters from brother Amos
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Written with Mariana's marriage imminent
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Letters to Mariana when first courting and just before marriage. Much concern about marrying under the care of a Meeting, getting necessary certificates. Letter of 5 mo 15, 1864, hopeful about Grant's succeeding in ending the War, worries about the draft. Planning a June wedding.
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Noah is boarding in Cincinnati, Mariana in Springboro
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Unhappy that they have not been able to settle in a permanent home since their marriage. First child, Charles, born 9/16/1865
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Commuting to Cincinnati
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Letters during trip to Cincinnati. Mentions yearly meeting and conversation with Aron and Ann Packer. She was on the "Watch Tower" and felt moved to preach. Noah had wisdom teeth removed with "laughing gas" and appreciated the photograph sent of son, Charlie. Hope for better photography in NY
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June 18, 1876, letter written from Congress Hotel in Cape May, NJ, where vacationing with son Charlie. Description of the resort and beach. 1880 in St. Paul with a glowing description of the city.
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Mary Wright's letters to daughter Mariana, most from Springboro. Early letter concerns caring for "Wrightie" when he was a baby. 4mo 11 1880 written from Brooklyn to Springboro, attended large event with prominent speakers including Henry Ward Beecher.
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2 ms copies of his poem "To Mariana W. Chapman, " his sister
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News from Ethelwyn (?)
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Letters from their mother in Springboro
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Letters from her son, personal news. 1/25/1895 ALS from Baltimore mentions hearing John Cornell preaching one of the best sermons he ever heard
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Invitation to attend service in which she will enter Convent of the Divine Compassion, NYC
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Letters from her daughter
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Describes sudden death of her husband in Glendale (Warner?)
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Thanks for donations from Principal of the Schofield School
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Letterhead is Office of Field, Chapman & Fenner, NY
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Notes that Convention (in Washington?) is getting slight mention in press
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Comments that thinks women's clubs very important and help women work effectively, but none in Springboro where women involved with their church activities
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1 ALS from Mariana's brother and typed excerpts concerning London, mentions relief of Mafeking
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Notes that there is a movement to record ministers in his meeting after about a 25 year break. His name omitted because of his "heresy." Had visited Chapmans in U.S. Second letter announces his appointment as principal of Dalton Hall and the theological storm. Mentions visit of 10 Swarthmore women Quakers as well as Sylvester Garrett and his wife from Swarthmore.
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From Zurich, Switzerland, formerly of Brooklyn
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Thanking for birthday gift, with message of appreciation from all
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Fragment of a letter, exhorting strength in faith
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Inc. letter from Peru, NY, describing steamer trip up to Albany
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Urges distribution of 1847 Report of Joint Committee on Indian Concerns to avert destruction of Seneca Nation by Ogden Co.
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Suggests the Amos Willets stay with Asher Wright when he makes a religious visit to Cattaraugus
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Letters from his uncle of Waynesville, OH, and serving in Ohio legislature in Columbus. Relates that 9 banks had failed in Waynesville, early Nov. 1854 and money was very tight in the city. Family and farm news. Boys were not happy with the school, but their uncle encouraged them to do their best.
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Letters from sister and brother. Letter from Joe, 10mo 14, 1854, notes that the American and Anti-Nebraska ticket swept state in the election.
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Letter from his aunt, Wilmington, Delaware
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Smallpox outbreak in Richmond, 1858, and business proposal (railroad) in letter from San Francisco
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Letters from her brother, NYC. In letter of 1860, he notes that their father announced his engagement to Phebe Lapham, widow of brother of Anson. Estate matters
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Letter from son Amos (1844-1916), Hanover. Enjoyed a game of baseball and a concert of sacred music.
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Letters from M. M. Stephenson, Delaware Water Gap, to his wife in Fulton, Del. Describes his travel in the Pocono Mountains. (Grace Walton Stephenson married A. Wright Chapman)
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Concerning trust fund from her uncle. 1877 mentions his work with Swarthmore
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Letter from his in-laws concerning house in Brooklyn
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Proposed visit
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Discusses family meeting in Niagara Falls
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Discusses family meeting in Niagara Falls
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1889 letter written from Birmingham
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Note to her young grandson
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Letters from friends
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Letter to his mother from Wales, mentions a recent letter from Mariana.
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2 letters from sister Charlotte who married Henry C. Turner and letters from Charlotte's son, Chandlee Turner
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Invitation to wedding of Grace Stevenson and Aron Wright Chapman (1909). Letters from Grace's parents;
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Poem dedicated to Wright Chapman from a girl
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Note from his young daughter
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Family news
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200 pages. Periodic entries discuss Chapman's activities, including her prison reform and women's suffrage work; participation in various social and political clubs; vacations at "Heronwood," her house in Port Washington, New York; and attendance at the 1896 suffrage convention in Washington and the 1897 convention in Des Moines. Includes a letter to Chapman from her husband Noah.
Subjects: Diaries; Women--Diaries; Women social reformers; Women political activists; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Prison reformers; Congresses and conventions
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Port Washington (N.Y.)
189 pages. Periodic entries discuss Chapman's activities, including her visits with friends; participation in various social and political clubs; vacations at "Heronwood," her house in Port Washington, New York; work for educational reform, women's suffrage, and prison reform; and interest in the Spanish-American War. Blank pages were not scanned.
Subjects: Diaries; Women--Diaries; Women social reformers; Women political activists; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Congresses and conventions; Spanish-American War, 1898
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Port Washington (N.Y.)
335 pages. Daily entries record Chapman's daily life and domestic activities; her meetings with other activists for women's suffrage and prison reform; attendance of Quaker meetings and suffrage events; several months of travel in Europe; and her family's health. Pages from November 17th through the Memoranda bore no handwriting and were not scanned.
Subjects: Diaries; Women--Diaries; Women social reformers; Women political activists; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Tourism; Voyages and travels
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.); Italy; France; Great Britain
47 pages. Daily notes during European trip, includes accounts. Pages scanned in chronological order, not physical order. Includes several hotel bills.
Subjects: Tourism; Voyages and travels
Relevant locations: Italy; France; Great Britain
4 pages. First-person autobiography of a shoe, apparently written as a school assignment.
Subjects: Shoes; Children's writings
3 pages. Apparently written as a school assignment. Discusses self-control and its absence, even in great rulers; discusses Napoleon at length as an example.
Subjects: Children's writings; Self-control; Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
7 pages. Approximately 1896. Summary of the board's discussions. Issues brought up include upcoming events, fundraising, and membership.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
16 pages. Approximately 1896. Summary of the board's discussions. Issues brought up include organizational by-laws, the Club's meeting place, the possibility of an exhibit on "woman's work in periodicals and the press," and resignations and nominations.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
4 pages. Political Equality Series (Vol.V, No.2). New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1900. Argues that women are by nature more moral, "constructive," and civilized than men and should therefore be given more power in order to further advance civilization.
Subjects: Sex differences; Women--Moral and ethical aspects; Women's rights--Moral and ethical aspects; Women's rights
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
8 pages. Promotes Port Washington, New York, where Mariana Wright Chapman and her husband owned a summer home. An article on the penultimate page mentions Chapman's house, and one on the last page discusses the Port Washington Woman's Club.
Subjects: City promotion; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Port Washington (N.Y.)
6 pages. Written by Mariana Wright Chapman and delivered by Emily Yeo at the 1900 Friends' Conference in Chautauqua, New York. Makes the case for women's suffrage, arguing from their natural rights and their anticipated positive effect on politics and laws, among other premises. See A00183892 for a rough draft.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Speeches
Relevant locations: Chautauqua (N.Y.)
13 pages. Argues for the continued value of Aesop's Fables, comparing them to more recent works and events.
Subjects: Aesop's fables
26 pages. Discusses women's rights.
Subjects: Women's rights; Women--Suffrage; Speeches, addresses, etc.
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Table of the "London Peace Society" showing the cost in money and lives of recent European and American wars.
Subjects: War, Cost of; War casualties; Peace movements
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
30 pages. Order of pages unclear. Discusses women's activism for social reform and their increasing presence in various professions.
Subjects: Women social reformers; Women in education; Women in public life; Carpenter, Mary, 1807-1877
Relevant locations: New York (State)
7 pages. Emphasizes physical, mental, and spiritual health. Discusses the book "My opinions and Betsey Bobbet's" and its lessons on the equality of men and women
Subjects: Baccalaureate addresses; Women orators
5 pages. Rebuttal to a piece in "The Outlook" magazine that argued against women's suffrage.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights
31 pages. Discusses the history and customs of Native peoples of the United States, especially southeastern New York.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Pocahontas, -1617; Ethnology; Indians of North America--Social life and customs
Relevant locations: New York (State)
12 pages. Discusses the "ideal wife and mother" and her need to "lead the family in the best possible ways physically, intellectually, and spiritually."
Subjects: Women--Moral and ethical aspects; Motherhood--Moral and ethical aspects
Relevant locations: New York (State)
11 pages. Discusses a referendum for women's suffrage in the state of New York.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (State)
3 pages. A list of toasts to be delivered at the Monday Afternoon Club in honor of various women.
Subjects: Toasts; Women--Societies and clubs; Women social reformers
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.)
17 pages. Essay delivered at the 1895 Convention of Long Island Clubs in Jamaica, New York. Discusses the old notion that frailty was attractive in women and argues that emphasizing women's strength is important to the modern women's rights movement.
Subjects: Women; Femininity; Femininity in popular culture; Sex differences; Women's rights; Women orators
Relevant locations: Jamaica (New York, N.Y.); Queens (New York, N.Y.)
16 pages. Delivered in 1895 at the anniversary luncheon of the Monday Afternoon Club of Plainfield, New Jersey. Advocates simple living on the grounds that "superfluities" are physically, mentally, and morally draining to those around them. Discusses simplicity in furniture, fashion, speech, and motherhood. Missing page 12.
Subjects: Simplicity; Women orators
Relevant locations: Plainfield (N.J.)
9 pages. Written on New York State Woman Suffrage Association letterhead. Discusses changing ideas of courtesy and their implications for women's rights. Makes arguments for women's suffrage.
Subjects: Courtesy; Women--Social conditions; Women's rights; Women--Suffrage; Women orators
Relevant locations: New York (State)
9 pages. Written around 1899; pages may be out of order. Notes on a debate in the British House of Lords over women's eligibility for municipal office.
Subjects: Women's rights; Women public officers
Relevant locations: Great Britain
9 pages. Delivered at the 1902 Friends General Conference in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Discusses women's rights in education, labor, and politics.
Subjects: Women's rights; Women--Education; Women employees--Social conditions; Wages--Women; Women orators
Relevant locations: Asbury Park (N.J.)
25 pages. Discusses the lives of Germaine de Staël and Juliette Récamier. Missing pages 5 and 10.
Subjects: Biography; Staël, Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine), 1766-1817; Récamier, Jeanne Françoise Julie Adélaïde Bernard, 1777-1849
10 pages. Discusses the hands-on educational techniques used at the German School, especially the focus on making models from clay and paper.
Subjects: Education; Constructivism (Education)
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
19 pages. Discusses the history of prisons and prison reform through the time of writing. Begins with a brief overview of current theories of the history of religion and crime.
Subjects: Prisons; Prison reformers
9 pages. Rough draft of remarks on recent developments in New York and Indiana prisons presented at the 1898 Friends Union for Philanthropic Labor in Richmond, Indiana.
Subjects: Prisons; Prison reformers; Quaker prison reformers
Relevant locations: Richmond (Ind.)
25 pages. Brief overview of the life of Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist known for his support of the theory of evolution.
Subjects: Huxley, Thomas Henry, 1825-1895; Biography
5 pages. Rough draft of a speech written by Mariana Wright Chapman and delivered by Emily Yeo at the 1900 Friends' Conference in Chautauqua, New York. Makes the case for women's suffrage, arguing from their natural rights and their anticipated positive effect on politics and laws, among other premises. See A00183871 for the finished draft.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Speeches
Relevant locations: Chautauqua (N.Y.)
Written while accompanying Quaker minister, Rachel Hicks, on her religious visit in eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Includes (2) copies of a printed memorial to Caroline Willets, published in 1859, and Journal (typescript) transcription, 1851, with mention of Amos Wright
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At least some of the poetry is written by A. Wright; includes: The Accident on the Elevated (AWW); To the Turkey Gobbler Poem: Now jolly glorious Christmas Poem: I cannot think of them as dead"; "There Was a Sober Quaker" Poem (fragment); "Once Seen, perhaps, we part forever" (A.Wright), n.d.; "Weary of the Rattle of the Wagons," n.d.
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1 page. Life Member certificate of Mariana W. Chapman, signed by Susan B. Anthony, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Harriet Taylor Upton.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women--Societies and clubs
86 pages. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings related to women's suffrage. Multiple articles were written by or about Mariana Wright Chapman. Some pages are blank.
Subjects: Scrapbooks; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Periodicals; Letters to the editor; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906; Suffragists; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women political activists; Women social reformers
Relevant locations: Boston (Mass.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Form letter by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Encourages recipients to contact their state representatives and advocate for a suffrage clause amendment to the State Constitution. Also requests financial donations for the Association. Signed by Martha R. Almy, Mariana W. Chapman, Helen J. Ecob, and Lillie Devereux Blake.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women--Political activity; Suffragists; Form letters; Fund raising
Relevant locations: Albany (N.Y.)
2 pages. Form letter written by Corresponding Secretary Rachel Foster Avery and addressed to "Delegate." Reports businesss related to the Association and the recent 50th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention.
Subjects: National American Woman Suffrage Association. Convention; Anniversaries; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women--Political activity; Suffragists; Form letters; Fund raising
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
1 page. Fundraising form letter by treasurer Harriet Taylor Upton, appealing for contributions on behalf of the Association.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Suffragists; Form letters; Fund raising
Relevant locations: Warren (Ohio)
1 page. Form letter by New York State Woman Suffrage Association President Mariana Wright Chapman on behalf of National President Susan B. Anthony. Addresses the other Association Presidents regarding petitions to be presented at State, County, and Local Conventions.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Suffragists; Congresses and conventions; Form letters; Petitions; Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Fundraising form letter by the Chairman of the Organization Committee, appealing for financial subscriptions to the Association.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Suffragists; Form letters; Fund raising
Relevant locations: Syracuse (N.Y.)
18 pages. History, constitution, and by-laws of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association. Includes a list of former Association Presidents.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Charters and articles of incorporation; By-laws
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
23 pages. History, constitution, and by-laws of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association. Includes lists of officers and members.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Charters and articles of incorporation; By-laws
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
4 pages. Program that lists session details for the 25th Annual Convention of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. Mariana Wright Chapman is listed as President of the Brooklyn Woman's Suffrage Association.
Subjects: Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Congresses and conventions; Programs; Advertising
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
1 page. Printed minutes of the establishment of Friends' Equal Rights Association, held under the auspices of the Philanthropic Committee of New York Yearly Meeting. Signed by the Executive Committee, including Chairman Mariana Wright Chapman.
Subjects: Minutes (Records); Quakers--Societies, etc.; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.); Long Island (N.Y.)
1 page. Draft letter written by Mariana Wright Chapman on behalf of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association, expressing condolences over recent death of women's rights activist Lucy Stone.
Subjects: Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893; Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857-1950; Blackwell, Henry Browne, 1825-1909; Condolence notes
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
6 pages. Addressed to public official Otto Kelsey. Discusses the Association's recent petition against women's suffrage and includes a pamphlet titled "An Outline of Work," which details their efforts. Signed by Josephine Jewell Dodge (Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge) and others.
Subjects: Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women--Political activity; Women political activists; Pamphlets
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
Re: Philanthropic work, abolition of capital punishment, temperance, purification of the press, work for colored schools, and the new plan for organization of monthly and quarterly meetings.
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Ms. copy of a letter from Edward Hicks, grieved by the divisions amongst Friends
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Bound volume
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Bound autograph album
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Includes letters of condolence to Noah from Suffrage Associations.
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Includes samples of hair of family members, some braided, as well as mounted clipping of obituaries and memorial poems.
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Family scrapbook with clippings, drawings, memorabilia, photographs
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Wilmington, Delaware. Presbyterian Church
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Family and local Long Island history compiled by Jesse Wright for his cousin Mary W. Chapman (Mariana's daughter)
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Autograph signature
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Autograph signature with short dedicated poem.
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Samuel Willets, treasurer
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Ohio home of Noah and Mariana
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30 pages. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and typed tributes titled "Testimonials to the value of the life of Mariana W. Chapman." One page contains a handwritten condolence letter addressed to one of Chapman's daughters and signed "J.B.Y." [sp]. Most pages are blank and have not been scanned.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Scrapbooks; Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); Excerpts; Obituaries; Biography; Death; Women social reformers
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.); Philadelphia (Pa.)
42 pages. Condolence letters from friends and relatives regarding Mariana W. Chapman's recent death. Includes one newspaper obituary clipping. The letters beginning on pages 28 and 35 are in reference to Chapman's mother Mary Willets Wright, who died in 1904.
Subjects: Chapman, Noah H. (Noah Haines), 1836-1914; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Condolence notes; Death
Relevant locations: Cincinnati (Ohio); Port Washington (N.Y.); Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); New York (N.Y.); Waynesville (Ohio); Glencoe (Ill.); Springboro (Ohio); Warsaw (N.Y.); Philadelphia (Pa.); Richmond (Ind.)
10 pages. The issue contains an obituary for Mariana Wright Chapman on page 6.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Periodicals; Obituaries; Death; Women social reformers
Relevant locations: New York (N.Y.)
20 pages. The issue contains obituaries and memorials for Mariana Wright Chapman on pages 3-5.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Periodicals; Obituaries; Death; Women social reformers; Suffragists; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Syracuse (N.Y.)
24 pages. The issue contains obituaries and memorials for Mariana Wright Chapman on pages 9-11.
Subjects: Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Periodicals; Obituaries; Death; Women social reformers; Suffragists; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Syracuse (N.Y.)
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1897 is missing part of p.13-14.
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8 pages. Page 1 is an invitation to "A Suffrage Party" for the benefit of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Association. Page 2 is a resolution titled "Woman Suffrage in Wyoming," dated approximately 1904. Pages 3-4 are excerpts from "Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association." Pages 5-7 are probably excerpts from a section of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association convention annual report, dated 1902. Page 8 is probably a quote by Chapman at the Friends' General Conference in 1898.
Subjects: Periodicals; Excerpts; Suffragists; Women--Suffrage; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women's rights
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.); Wyoming; Washington (D.C.); Buffalo (N.Y.)
7 pages. Newspaper clippings relating to women's suffrage in New York State. Two clippings are dated 1894 and the third is undated.
Subjects: Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.); New York State Woman Suffrage Association; Chapman, Mariana W. (Mariana Wright), 1843-1907; Suffragists; Women--Suffrage; Women's rights; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Equality
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
12 pages. Tribute poem to the Brooklyn Woman's Club, written by author Anna Olcott Commelin.
Subjects: Poetry; Women--Societies and clubs
Relevant locations: Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
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80 pages. Annual report of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association and its thirtieth annual convention for the year 1898. Includes the convention programs, minutes, reports, lists of members and officers, and constitution and by-laws.
Subjects: Annual reports; Congresses and conventions; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women's rights; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Hudson (N.Y.); Auburn (N.Y.)
81 pages. Annual report of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association and its thirty-first annual convention for the year 1899. Includes the convention programs, minutes, reports, lists of members and officers, and constitution and by-laws.
Subjects: Annual reports; Congresses and conventions; Women--Societies and clubs; Women's rights--Societies, etc.; Women's rights; Women--Suffrage
Relevant locations: Dunkirk (N.Y.); Auburn (N.Y.)
Includes Address delivered before the Miami Valley Institute, on Education, by A.M. Wright, AM; Remarks made by Lucretia Mott, Eleventh Month 4th, 1873. Acc. 2014.017
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Donald Carre Turner in graduating class
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