Jennie Smith letters

Descriptive Summary
Title: Jennie Smith letters
Creator: Way, William
Inclusive Dates: 1852-1884
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.25 Linear Feet 1 box
Collection Number: ms3155
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Scope and Content

The collection consists of correspondence written to Jennie (Emily Jane) Smith from family, friends, and soldiers in Maryland, Pennsylvania and Georgia, from 1852-1884. Correspondence regards family news, social events, Quaker farm life, marriages, and deaths. Some letters regard marriage proposals and matchmaking for Jennie. Smith's uncle, William Way, in Pennsylvania, writes about his views on marriage, causes of the Civil War, slavery and Abolitionism, and post-war problems.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Jennie Smith letters, ms3155, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2019.

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Corrrespondence, 1852-1859

Letter -- from Ellen Greenfield, 1852 December 4

Letter -- from B. Humes to "My Dear Child", 1854

Letter -- from Emily Smith and David B. Chambers, 1856 February 12

Letter -- from Emily Smith, 1852 [?]

Letter -- from E. B. Humes to "Emilee", 1855 May 29

Letter -- from Emily J. Smith and Joseph A. Hickersham [?], 1855 June 14

Letter -- from Phebe A. Humes to "Dear Emily", 1856 July 11

Letter -- from P. A. Humes, 1852 May 4th

Letter -- from Phebe Humes to "My Dear Emily", 1857 February 22

Letter -- from E. B. Humes to "Dear Emilee", 1857 September 18

Letter -- from William McCullough [?] to "Miss E. J. Smith", 1857 October 24

Letter -- from Phebe A. Humes to "Dear Emilie", 1857 November 7

Letter -- from William McCullough [?] to "Miss E. J. Smith", 1858 January

Letter -- [signature removed], 1858

A letter proposing marriage

Letter -- from C. B. Humes [?] to "Dear Cousin", 1858 July 18

Refers to two women employed as house-keepers.

"We have had a girl all along but was not good for much, she was colored we have an Irish one now and she is ditto."

Letter -- from Phebe A. Humes to Emily Smith, 1859 March 1

Letter -- from William M. Way to Emily J. Smith, 1859 August 20

"I expect thee has almost forgotten thy Quaker education, and can appreciate the importance of having servants to till the ground and fan thee while thee sleeps."

Letter -- from Samuel West to John B. Wright, 1859 September 7

 

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Corrrespondence, 1860-1861

Letter -- from Joseph Moore, 1860 February 6

Letter -- from Phebe A Humes to Emily J. Smith, 1860 April 18

Letter -- from Martha J. Moore to "Dear Cousin Emilie", 1860 June 28

Letter -- William M. Way to Emily J. Smith, 1860 December 20

Way discusses the moral (and biblical) contexts of slavery, supporting the fact of individual rights of every person, including enslaved people.

"If thee and I have a right to our own bones and muscles, mind and soul, who can show by even the shadow of an argument that a man with a black skin has not the same right."Addressed to Emily J. Smith, Whitesville Georgia

Letter -- from M. J. Moore to "My Dear Cousin", 1861 April 14

In closing, discusses outbreak of Civil War, "that Fort Sumter had been set on fire." Describes Martha Moore's fear of violence between enslaved people and white enslavers

Letter -- from Joseph Alexander to E. J. Smith, 1861 September 9

 

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Corrrespondence, 1864-1868

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jinni [Jennie] Smith, 1864 January 9

Letter -- from "Cousin Joe" to Emily J. Smith, 1865 January 27

Letter -- from Martha J. Moore to E. Jennie Smith, 1864 February 28

Letter -- from "Maddox" to E. J. Smith, 1864 April 30

Letter -- from Allen P. Oxford to Jennie Smith, 1865 January 3

Letter -- from William H. Carrurot [?] and B. A. Early, 1865 January 25

Letter -- from "C" to Jennie Smith, 1865 January 27

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 January 27

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 January 28

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 January 28

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 February 15

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 February 14

Letter -- from John S. Caroshire [?] to Jennie Smith, 1865 March 14

Letter -- from P. G. Geer to Jennie Smith, 1865 November 3

Letter -- from William M. Way to Jennie Smith, 1865 December 24

Way discusses Emancipation and the general circumstances of newly freed people in the South.

"I never advocated compulsive emancipation, but believed that it would prove, to be in the interest, both of the slave [and] his master if he were freed; And if masters had have conferred the hour of freedom on the slave in time of peace, the result would have been different"

Letter -- S. H. Gallagher to "My Dear Cousin", 1868 January 6

Letter -- from C. H. Jones to "My Very Dear Friend", 1868 July 19

 

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Corrrespondence, 1870-1876

 

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Corrrespondence, 1880-1884

 

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Corrrespondence - undated

 

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Envelopes

 

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