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Letters to HJC: A-C, circa

 File — Box: 62

Scope and Contents

A number of the letters written by Cadbury family members were written to HJC when he was in England and Portugal in Jan. and Feb., 1941 Letter writers include: A Caroline Allinson, Paul Allen, AFSC (Louis Schneider), Andover Theological Seminary (John Ratner), B Joshua L. Bailey Jr., Amos Bilder, Gregor Berstein, John Bleibe?, Beatrice Borchardt, Boxton University (Jane Newhall), Day Bradley, William Braithwaite, Wilbert Braxton, A. Neave Brayshaw, Anna Brinton, Howard Brinton, Anna H. Brown, Bryn Mawr College (Marty Pine, Phyllis Lachs, Mary Patterson) C Allis Cadbury?, Anna K. Cadbury, Ben Cadbury, Chris Cadbury, Elizabeth Cadbury, Emma Cadbury, Joel Cadbury, Lucy Cadbury, Lydia Cadbury, Paul Cadbury, William A. Cadbury, Clarissa Cooper, Samuel Cooper, Wilmer Cooper, Herman Cope Highlights include: AFSC (Louis Schneider) to LCC. Philadelphia, Pa., 1974 11/5. [re minute of appreciation for HJC] Andover Theological Seminary (John Ratner, acting pres.). Cambridge, MA, 1919 3/5. [invites HJC to come to Andover as New Testament lecturer for 1919-20 Bailey, Joshua L. Jr. 1974 9/10. [re scion of Treaty elm at Haverford College] Berstein, Gregor. N.p., n.d. [gratitude for sponsorship by Cadburys of his relatives to come to USA] Brinton, Anna. Wallingford, Pa., [1957]. [praise for HJC’s Swarthmore Lecture, but with certain suggestions] Brinton, Howard.. [Wallingford, Pa., 1957]. [praise for HJC’s Swarthmore Lecture, but with certain suggestions] Bryn Mawr College (Marty Pine, Phyllis Lachs). Bryn Mawr, Pa., 1973. 2 items. [re Constance Collier, the first HJC Fellow at BMC] Cadbury, Anna K. 1879 and 1915. 2 items. (the first letter is to her brother). [re death of Mary Anna Brown; pictures of LLC] Cadbury, Elizabeth. 1941 1/24. [attending last movie made in free France; HJC remark about Kitty Foyle; lots of home news and her own take on various issues] Cadbury, Emma. 1941. 2 items. [has seen Rufus Jones; Douglas Steere returning to Haverford to take up some of Thomas Kelly’s teaching load; lots of news about AFSC-related people] Cadbury, Lydia. 1940-1941, 1972 and n.d. ca. 20 items. [very full letters written to HJC while he was in Lisbon, England, Bermuda and other places with a great deal of personal news, many Quakers mentioned, committee meetings and many opinions; also: 1/12/1940: article in Sat. Eve. Post about occupied Norway and about other published articles; 12/14/1940: attending FOR meeting; 1/14/1940: Burton Fowler, who is not a Friend, is made head of Germantown Friends School and will probably take it into war; [1941]: Quarterly Meeting having contingents of evangelicals and non-evangelicals; 2.19/1941: attends All-Florida Quaker picnic; These is an undated postcard when daughter Winifred was a baby, and in 1972 postcard accepting birthday wishes when Winifred was 46 and referring to a speech by HJC at Harvard] Cadbury, Lucy to Cousins . Wales, 1941 5/26. [in addition to description of her husband’s heart attack and slow recovery, she mentions that American Friends may not fully understand how the Nazis are depriving people of their freedom and creating suffering] Cadbury, William A. Birmingham [Eng.], 1943 and n.d. 5 items. [7/5/1942: HJC illness and sending family booklets;1943: distribution of family letters and work on Cadbury genealogy; reference to William Warder Cadbury in China] Cooper, Clarissa and Samuel. 1971-1972 2 items. [on Quaker perspective regarding insurance] Cooper, Wilmer. 1971 12/29. [Wilburite Friends testimony on insurance] Cope, Herman C. 1932 2/25. [on the matter of opening Westtown School to nonFriends]

Dates

  • Creation: circa

Access Restrictions

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