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Letters from Howard Haines Brinton, 1903-1919

 File — Box: 22A

Scope and Contents

15 items: To family. Northfield Student Conference, YMCA, East Northfield Ma [Haverford and other schools represented; gives words to special Haverford "yell"; courses during the day] Attached is Haverford Junior Day play program, in which Howard Haines Brinton had a part, 1903 July 2; To family. London [account of voyage], 1911 July 18; To family. Oxford, England [continuing account; preparing for Rhine voyage, then German, Dutch, and Italian cities, followed by Switzerland and France, 1911? July 21; To family. London [continuing trip description; visited with Norman Penney at Friends Library], 1911? July 22; Marked "3". Grindelwald [continuing trip description], 1911? August 7, undated; 4 letters from Howard Haines Brinton to Friends of the Class of 1908 of Olney Friends School written from Pickering College. [requesting news and reporting about himself], 1912, 1913, undated; Pickering College [soldiers everywhere in Toronto, training to be sent to war], 1913?; To "Dud." Guilford College, North Carolina [Thomas Newlin as new president at Guilford and resulting upheaval], 1915 February 27; To family. Guilford College, North Carolina [being received on his arrival as a new professor], 1915 September 12; To family. Guilford College, North Carolina [teaching a class of 60], 1915 September 21, 22; To family. Guilford College, North Carolina [teaching a voluntary Bible class; is chair of the Quakerism class; bought a Maxfield Parrish for his wall; comment on the Guilford president], 1915 October 4; To family. Guilford College, North Carolina [leading a Quakerism class on the rise of the Society of Friends], 1915 October 17; To family. Guilford College, North Carolina [is chair of the minstrel show; financial campaign, but doesn't bring in the likes of Quaker farmers], 1915?; To Algernon Evans. Columbia, South Carolina [report of Howard Haines Brinton's visit at Dr. Hobbs' request to Camp Jackson in search of information concerning the C.O.s imprisoned there, with extensive information on COs and Camp Sevier], 1918 June 16

Dates

  • Creation: 1903-1919

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