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Cope Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-178
Overview
The Cope family was a Quaker family of Chester County and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. The collection contains family correspondence, genealogical papers and legal papers, a journal (1823) of Ann (Shoemaker) Janney, and other papers of the Cope and related Shoemaker, Yarnell, and Janney families. Individuals represented include Mahlon Day, Joseph John Gurney, and John Janney.
Dates:
1792-1877
John Joseph Gurney manuscript
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-040
Overview
The manuscript of John Joseph Gurney includes three parts: "Charlemania Part I," Charlemania Part II," and "An Afternoon at Cambridge and a Morning at Oxford."
According to notes from the curator of Haverford College's Quaker and Special Collections, the manuscript is in the hand of Joseph John Gurney, but is "possibly written in the hand of Anna Gurney, who gave it to Ann Hodgkin, possibly as a wedding present."
According to notes from the curator of Haverford College's Quaker and Special Collections, the manuscript is in the hand of Joseph John Gurney, but is "possibly written in the hand of Anna Gurney, who gave it to Ann Hodgkin, possibly as a wedding present."
Dates:
1830-1833
"Corrections of Journey in North America"
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-014
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the single volume manuscript by Joseph John Gurney, which lists corrections to the published manuscript, “Journey in North America, described in familiar letters to Amelia Opie.” Each page of the volume is numbered so that the corrections on each page match the corresponding page of the published version.
Dates:
Undated
Mary B. Parson correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-014
Abstract
This collection includes personal correspondence between Mary B. Parsons and members of the Braithwaite family, primarily Anna and Isaac Braithwaite. Letters concern family matters and, occasionally, meeting activities at Flushing and Kendal and news of Joseph Gurney and Elizabeth Fry. Other correspondents include J. Bevan Braithwaite and Martha G. Braithwaite.
Dates:
1843-1878
Collection of Quaker Poetry
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-098
Abstract
Collection of original poetry written by and/or about Quakers, their beliefs, and their places of worship. Included are poems by Rebeca Smedley, Elizabeth Biddle Conrow, and Joseph Conrow, a biography in verse of Thomas and Elizabeth Robson by their grandson Joseph J. Green, a meditation on Spruce St. Monthly Meeting by Joseph Wharton, and an account of the 1843 Women's New York Yearly Meeting by Amanda K. Clark. Also included are poems concerning J.J. Gurney, Elias Hicks, and Robert Barclay's...
Dates:
1794-1922
Reproduction pictures used in exhibitions or book illustrations
Sub-Group
Identifier: SFHL-PA-ILL
Overview
Reproductions of photographs, documents, and objects used as book illustrations or in exhibits. Most of the original photographs, documents, and objects are at FHL but some are from other repositories.
Dates:
1981 - 1998
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- Bean, Joel, 1825-1914 2
- Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830 2
- Barbour, Hugh 1
- Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690 1
- Bean, Hannah E. (Hannah Elliott), 1830-1909 1
- Braithwaite family 1
- Braithwaite, Anna, 1788-1859 1
- Braithwaite, Isaac, 1781-1861 1
- Braithwaite, J. Bevan (Joseph Bevan), 1818-1905 1
- Braithwaite, Martha, 1823-1895 1
- Clark, Amanda K., 1822?-1895 1
- Conrow, Elizabeth Biddle, -1939 1
- Cope family 1
- Cope, Jasper, 1775-1856 1
- Cope, Rebecca, 1781-1856 1
- Day, Mahlon 1
- Frost, Robert, 1874-1963 1
- Fry, Elizabeth Gurney, 1780-1845 1
- Green, Joseph J. (Joseph Joshua), 1854-1921 1
- Janney, Ann, d. 1837 1
- Janney, John, 1765-1823 1
- Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia held at Spruce Street (Hicksite : 1833-1903) 1
- New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1955). Women's Meeting 1
- Parsons, Mary B., 1813-1878 1
- Robson, Elizabeth, 1771-1843 1
- Robson, Thomas, 1768-1852 1
- Scott, Job, 1751-1793 1
- Smedley, Rebekah, 1759-1847 1
- Wharton, Joseph, 1826-1909 1
- Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 1
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