From sister Lydia Schofield, Sadie Brouwer, cousin Martha Humphreys, about Martha teaching in N.Y. From Rebecca Shinn Ash to Samuel Ash.

From brother Ben Schofield, Aunt Eliza Bell. Death of Janie, John Brown, sister Sarah (Sallie) Schofield’s marriage to Samuel Ash, farewell address to students in July 1859.

Mostly to and from Sadie Brouwer, also from Elizabeth Jackson, Carrie Willetts, Aunt Jane Price Steamer trip, sister Sallie’s son born.

To Sadie, from cousin Marietta Ridgway, Carrie Willetts. Reactions to war, return to teaching. W. Oldden Ridgway writes from military camp.

To Sadie, from W.O. Ridgway in army. Dorothea Dix, teaching in Philadelphia, friendship with John Bunting.

To Sadie. From W.O. Ridgway, a cousin, Carrie Willetts just after her marriage, Sadie. Attending Episcopal church service with friend Anna Barnes, visiting sick, friendship with John Bunting.

To and from Sadie, from Anna (Webster?). Death of a cousin in the war, her work in the Philadelphia hospital, W.O. Ridgway’s return, the draft.

To Sadie about Wendell Phillips. From aid society sending hospital supplies, Jane Hillborn, a response to her first request to teach freedmen, a soldier named Edward Wilson. Program from benefit concert for hospital.

To and from Sadie about Edward Wilson, her vow not to marry, draft riots. From Anna Webster, John Bunting. Poem about Gettysburg.

To and from Sadie about marriage, war. From cousin Abraham. Another request to teach and replies from the Anti-Slavery Office and National Freedmen’s Association. Poem called To the Spirit of Poetry.

To and from Sadie and Anna Webster, mostly concerning love and marriage.

To and from Sadie about Anna Webster and John Bunting’s engagement. From Edward Wilson.

To and from Sadie, sister Lydia, Anna Webster, Sallie Patrick. Appointment to teach for Penna. Freedman’s Relief Association (P.F.R.A.), Lincoln’s death.

To and from Sadie, Mother and sisters, Elizabeth Bunting, Anna Webster. Martha’s preparations and departure, William Lloyd Garrison, Anna and John’s wedding plans.

To family about her journey, from Anna Webster, Mother, sister Eliza, cousin Mollie, Martha MacAllister, Cornelia (Hancock?) recommending teachers, unsigned letter about St. John’s Island, P.F.R.A. and Anna Parrish from the women’s branch of P.F.R.A. sending money and supplies.

From P. Verlander, Mother, sister Lydia, Anna Willetts, Uncle Paxon Price and Aunt Jane Price, cousin. P.F.R.A. denies her request for an orphanage and school changes, sends salary.

From A. Kimber, Mary (Sharp?), Sadie, sister Lydia, Uncle Thomas, Anna Bunting, Cousin Sallie, Mary Taylor. P.F.R.A. decides school year will end July 1. Mother’s letter to friend about Martha.

From Mary Sharp, sister Lydia, Sadie, Anna Bunting, sister Sallie and Samuel Ash, Halliday Price, J.E. Cornelius. P.F.R.A. about salaries, change to another school on John’s Island.

To post office about her lost letters. From I. Price, sister Sallie and Samuel Ash, Aunt Jane Price, Edward Willetts, Anna Bunting, sister Lydia, Robert Corson of American Freedmen’s Union Commission (A.F.U.C.) sending salary and supplies.

From sister Lydia, Hallie Price, Aunt Jane Price, sister Sallie, Clara Egan, Paxon Price, Mother, Annie Heacock.

From sister Lydia, sister Sallie and nephew Howard, Lizzie Wynne, Ellen Patrick, Sadie, Sallie Patrick. R. Corson for A.F.U.C. sends $50, school will start Nov. 1.

From Ellen Way, Mary Rose Smith inviting Martha to speak at Yearly Meeting, Laura Towne, Annie Heacock, Cornelia Hancock, Philie, sister Lydia about Lucretia Mott, sister Sallie. Sister Eliza writes to Baker Institute concerning Mary Sharp’s complaints. Women’s Freedmen’s Relief Association (W.F.R.A.) writes about Martha’s illness.

To nephew Howard Ash. From Department of Agriculture sending seeds, Mary Jackson (W.F.R.A.), Sarah F. Corlies, Lizzie Dorsey, Sadie, Mother and sisters, Samuel Ash. Poem from Ellen Murray. Recovery from illness.

From sisters, Samuel Ash, Laura Towne and student, W.O. Ridgway, Dr. Hassenplug, Mary Taylor, Charles Scribner sending textbooks.

From Laura Towne, Aunt Jane Price, Mother, sister Eliza, cousin Sarah, sister Lydia, Anna Bunting.

Forwarded letter concerning Mr. Sumner’s character. From Uncle Paxon Price, Miss Landon and Hanna Hunn (teachers at St. Helena), J. Tinchell (?), Aunt Jane, Sarah Corlies about black men in legislature, William Stone, Aunt Eliza Bell, Mother and sisters.

From mother and sisters about Sadie’s marriage to Thomas Chalkley, Dr. Hassenplug, Sallie Patrick, Aunt Eliza requesting servant, William Stone, N.B. Fisk, Laura Towne, Miss Landon, Robert Corson (A.F.U.C.) about salary and school’s need for local support.

From mother and sisters, William Stone about his love for Mary Taylor, Robert Corson, Lizzie Heacock, a cousin, Anna Bunting, Aunt Jane Price.

From sister Lydia, Mother, Lizzie Yarnall, William Stone, Mandy Washington and Lucy Gould (student and teacher at St. Helena), Mary Taylor, Anna Bunting, Jennie Satterthwaite, Aunt Jane Satterthwaite, Jane (teacher at Clarendon).

From Sadie, Mary Taylor Stone and William Stone about their marriage, her sisters and Samuel Ash.

From sister Eliza, Anna Bunting, Aunt Jane, Mary Stone, Laura Towne, Mother. From Aunt Eliza Bell to mother about Martha and Swarthmore College. From Carrie (Taylor?) to Mary Taylor Stone.

Recommendation of Martha from Arthur Sumner at Shaw School. From mother and sisters, Mary Taylor Stone, Carrie Corlies, William Stone. To General O.O. Howard about building school on her property, to sisters about desire to build school.

From mother and sisters, W.W. Woodruff and J.N. Rendall (Lincoln University) about L.O. Posey (her former student), William Stone, Robert Corson advising her not to give an inch on the school building.

From E.L. Deane advising her to ask Gen. Howard for $1000, William Stone, Mother, sister Eliza, W.W. Woodruff (Lincoln University), letter from Clerk of Court accompanying schoolhouse deed. Martha to her sisters.

From Mary Taylor Stone, William Stone, Mother and sisters, Robert Corson (A.F.U.C.) about end of school term and health concerns, W.W. Woodruff about her former students.

From J.N. Rendall (Lincoln University), sister Eliza, E.L. Deane about money for schoolhouse, Mother, Sallie Corlies, Mary Taylor Stone, W.W. Woodruff, N.B. Fisk, William McGeorge.

From R. Corson, War Department about building and funding problems, Allan A. Scott (former student now at Lincoln University), W.J. Mixsons (?), Sadie, William McGeorge, Mary Jackson (P.F.R.A.), Mary Taylor Stone, Sallie Corlies.

From Elizabeth Yarnall, Mary Jackson (P.F.R.A.), bill from Vigl Briggs, Robert Corson refunding repair costs, Mother, Lizzie Dorsey, Samuel Ash, Allan A. Scott, certificate of character from W.F.R.A., J.K. Jillson (State Superintendent of Education) about teacher pay. To Miss L.M. Rollins about women’s suffrage.

From Aunt Eliza Bell (restaurant menu) L.O. Posey, Sallie Corlies, William Stone, A. Middleton, Archer Walker, Annie (Heacock?), Mary Jackson, Mary Taylor Stone, Mother, sister Eliza, donation of $2 from M.E. Shearman. To nephew Samuel Ash Jr.

From sister Sallie, S.C. Clerk of Court, Mother, Sallie Corlies, Samuel Ash, Anna Bunting, cousin Jennie, S. Ott. Letter from L.O. Posey to A.A. Scott about life at Cape May.

Donations and letters from Samuel Willetts, Lizzie Yarnall and Aunt Jane, Samuel Ash. Letters from Mother and sisters. Draft of epistle to Meeting about school’s needs. Mother to Sallie Ash.

From Anna Bunting, Mary Taylor Stone, Mother and sisters, S.C. Armstrong and her former students at Hampton Normal & Agricultural School, Lizzie (Yarnall?), Richard Cadbury, American Women’s Suffrage Association electing her a delegate, William McGeorge.

From Lizzie, Mary Taylor Stone, Rebecca Shin, E.S. Pedruzzi, Mother, sister Eliza, Sidney Andrews, S.C. Clerk of Court, Samuel Ash, Ellen Patrick. Death of Miss Pedruzzi. An appeal for assistance to Isaac Jeanes.

From sister Lydia, brother Ben, Rebecca Shinn, Eliza Bell, Gen O.O. Howard, S. Price, Sophia Dickerson (former student), Sidney Andrews, Addison Hutton, Mother.

From Jennie Satterthwaite, Mother and sisters, Addison Hutton, E. Willetts, Oldden Ridgway, Sallie Corlies, cousin Sarah, Sue Hutton. Death of Harmon Hutton. To Miss Smith about women’s suffrage and financial problems.

From Alice, Franklin Parrish, S.A. Collins, Sarah, F.L. Walker, Addison Hutton, sisters Eliza and Lydia, Samuel Ash, George Truman. Martha and Eliza to mother, Martha to sister Sallie and E.P. (Ellen Patrick?). Mother’s death.

From Anna Willetts, L.O. Posey, sister Lydia, Sarah of Orange, Allen Scott, Mary Taylor Stone, Halliday Jackson. To her sisters.

From Fannie Serrill, Debby Sheldrake, Susie Bunting, Dennis Douglass, Matilda Harris, sister Sallie and nephew Howard, State Superintendent of Education J.K. Jillson, Sarah of Orange, Samuel Ash.

Responses from around that nation to her letter in the N.Y. Tribune describing the political outrages of the South.

From Rachel Price, Jeremiah Watterman, S.C. Armstrong, Joseph Martin seeking assistance on move to South Carolina, S. Ott, Frank Peters, T. Chalkley Bartram and sister Lydia about Sadie’s death. Draft of letter to Friend Church about need for education for black people.

From T. Chalkley Bertram, sister Sallie, telegram from Samuel Ash about Lucretia Mott’s death, Isaiah Price Describing Mott’s funeral. Martha to her family on racism in South Carolina, fever, again, death of a pupil, her thanks for Ash’s telegram.

From Albion Tourgeé to President recommending her for Postmistress of Aiken, Allen Scott, sister Lydia, Mary Walker. To Aiken newspaper, Ladies’ Journal, E.M. Davis, her family, B.P. Chatfield, niece Mary. Her anger at Chatfield’s appointment as postmaster, distrust of Northerners in S.C., T. Chalkley Bertram’s wedding.

From sisters, postcard from Asheville, Ancil Campbell about Republican certificate. To her sisters about attending graduation at Lincoln University, Mary Rodenbach, Miss E.H. Van Lew. William Rodenbach to sister Eliza on plan to get stone marker for school.

(None from 1883.) From Fannie including her transcript of Fredrick Douglass lecture, William Rodenbach. To her sisters about Katrina Rodenbach’s birth, school commencement.

From W.L. Garrison’s son, Francis. To her sisters describing the teachers and political corruption in S.C., to “Barnwell People” editor about the value of labor.

From Horace Smith. To her sisters, E. Magill, PYM on need for more support and staff.

Unaddressed notes. To sisters about tainted buttermilk incident, suffrage, Christian Science, school business. Samuel Ash and sister Eliza to Lydia in Aiken.

From M. Jackson, sister Eliza, Lizzie Satterthwaite, Lizzie Aston who wants Martha to take in her daughter. To sisters about new boarding house, trip to N.C. and V.A. Unaddressed notes on teacher raise and Christmas.

From Anderson Green (parent of her student), sister Lydia. To Friend, to S, to sisters and niece Mary.

From Sallie Corlies. To sister Sallie and Sam Ash on the death of their son. Mary T. Stone to “Corlissy” about Martha leaving school for a year. Lydia to sisters from Aiken, Aunt Jane to Lydia about Martha’s rest, Howard Ash to Mary Ash from Aiken.

From sister Lydia in Aiken. To niece Mary from Purchase, Darby, Florida, Montana. Sister Sallie to Lydia, note about Martha in Chicago and the Board of Lady Managers, makeshift diary of daily activities.

(None from 1896.) To sisters about Susan B. Anthony’s visit, broken shoulder blade. To Coral, to Teachers’ Club about lack of women in N.E.A., to niece Mary Ash.

From Mary R. Fox. To sisters and niece about Spanish War and electric lights, to Mrs. Coolige, to White Water Quarterly Meeting. Letters between Samuel and Mary Ash on Martha’s need to retire.

To niece Mary and sisters on Mary Ash’s marriage and her views on table manners. Invite to quilting bee fundraiser for school.

To niece Mary and sisters on John Bunting’s death, giving away possessions, new business manager. Notice about Susan B. Anthony’s death. Sister Sallie Ash to Mary Ash Jenkins, sister Eliza to Mrs. Carter. Letter to trustees.

From G.G. Carley and Smith Atkins on Union soldier’s body found in Aiken, Alfred Love sending supplies. To sister Sallie and Samuel Ash, niece Mary, note to “young cousin.” Brief school report of 1908- school accredited.

From Julia B. Ford, Addison Hutton, Dust Proof Floor Dressing Co. in Cincinnati. To niece Mary about Florida, problems with Mr. Edgerton, retirement. To Governor Blease about need for school to continue.

To niece Mary about her one “love affair,” retirement, preparation for birthday celebration. Unaddressed note about death. Thank you letter to “Friend” for donation. Lyrics to hymn sung by students at funeral. Letters from Elizabeth Powell Bond, C.S. Worth, N.A. Evans, A.W. Nicholson to Mary Ash Jenkins.