Temperance

Minnie Bingham to Charlie Letter, October 27, 1881

Mary A. Bingham (Syracuse) tells Charles Cobb about her concerns for catching the illness going around. Mary also writes about her mother being the corresponding secretary for the state Women's Christian Temperance Union but giving up the …

Mother to Alida Letter

Frances Elizabeth Haven Moss (Syracuse 1874) writes to Alida Helen Moss Skinner (Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) about women being admitted to Northwestern University in 1870, when her father was there. She also describes Frances Willard, le…

Minnie A. B. to Charlie Letter, January 13, 1878

Mary A. Bingham (Syracuse) writes to Charles Cobb about attending her class meetings, her studying, and her music lessons. Mary also writes about exchanging pictures with Charles and Elizabeth F. Haywood (Syracuse), and her mother coming t…

Minnie Bingham to Charlie Letter, October 20, 1881

Mary A. Bingham (Syracuse) tells Charles Cobb about her past week, her mother going to a Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting, and the threat of smallpox spreading.