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Document Details


Title: Letter from Abigail Hopper Gibbons to Sally Gibbons Emerson, May 3, 1856
Document type: Letter
Accessibility: Paid Only
Repository: Alexander Street Press
Collection: The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries (Subscription only)
URL: http://www.alexanderstreet4.com/cgi-bin/asp/cwld/documentidx.pl?aspdocid=S97-D120
Original Language: English
Time span: 1856
Speaker: Gibbons, Abigail Hopper, 1801-1893
Speaker gender: Female
Speaker date of birth: 07-Dec-1801
Speaker place of birth: Philadelphia, PA; Pennsylvania; United States; North America
Speaker race: White
Speaker occupation: Abolitionist; Nurse; Social reformer; Teacher; Women's rights activist
Age at speaking: 55
Document location: New York, NY
Document date: 03-May-1856
Organizations discussed: New York Juvenile Asylum, New York, NY
Locations discussed: New York; New York, NY; North America; United States
Topics discussed - ASP terms: New York; New York Juvenile Asylum, New York, NY; New York, NY; North America; United States
Topics discussed - Other terms: Charity; Communities; Economics; Law; Orphanages; Poverty; Prison reform; Prisoners; Prisons; Public buildings; Sociology; Volunteers; Work houses
ASP release: 2006-01
Document code: S97-D120-3