Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith, 1899-1911.

ArchivalResource

Letters of Hannah Whitall Smith, 1899-1911.

The collection consists of a group of 55 letters addressed by Hannah Whitall Smith to her dear friend Kate, whom she always referred to as "sister." In addition, there are two poems and one Christmas card. The letters are often religious in tone. Smith relates news of her family, including Logan (Pearsall Smith) and Alys (Smith Russell), especially re Russell's health, visits from friends, references to Bertrand Russell, Quakers and Quaker Meeting, particularly in Philadelphia, as well as British Women's Meeting, temperance, living a simple Quaker life, writing of her new book, health issues and old age.

55 items ; 18 cm. and larger.

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8190001

Haverford College Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Russell, Alys Whitall Pearsall Smith.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64554t3 (person)

Smith, Hannah Whitall, 1832-1911

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6th8w8t (person)

Religious leader and author. Hannah Whitall Smith preached and wrote on religious subjects and became involved in the temperance and suffrage movements. When her daughter Mary married English barrister Frank Costelloe in 1888, Hannah, her husband Robert and their children, Alys and Logan, joined Mary in England. Alys married philosopher Bertrand Russell and worked for women's rights as well as other political issues. When Mary's marriage failed soon after the birth of th...

Berenson, Mary, 1864-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bv7rp8 (person)

Bernard Berenson, art historian and critic, was born in Lithuania in 1865. His family moved to Boston, Mass. in 1875 where he was enrolled in the Boston Latin School. He then attended Boston University for one year, and graduated from Harvard College in 1887. Encouraged by Isabella Stewart Gardner and others, Berenson travelled to Europe to study art, although with the original intention of becoming a writer. Mary Berenson was born a Quaker in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1864, the d...

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r3qbb (person)

Russell was an English logician and philosopher. Marsh edited Russell's Logic and knowledge: essays 1901-1950 and wrote about Russell. From the guide to the Letters to Robert C. (Robert Charles) Marsh, 1950-1959., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Russell, British philosopher and mathematician and the 3rd Earl Russell. From the description of [Letter, 19]44 Dec. 8, Trinity College, Cambridge [to] Dear Sir / Bertrand Russell. (Smith C...

Smith, Logan Pearsall, 1865-1946

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6zk5rbv (person)

Logan Pearsall Smith, the British essayist, was actually born in Millville, New Jersey into a family of Quakers. Smith studied in England,became a British resident, and spent his life writing about English writers. From the description of Constable Correspondence, 1917-1943. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 122491162 American essayist. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : London, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1943 Aug. 14-1943 Aug....