Letters to Alfred Cope, 1835-1863
Scope and Contents
(ca. 34 items) letters are from:
Bassett, E.D.,
2 letters, Phila. 6 mo. 30 and 7 mo. 2, 1863 (re request for money for Black refugees)
Bates, Fleming,
Letter, Hanover County [Va.], 4 mo. 9, 1836 (re business)
Biddle, William,
Letter, [Mine?] Hill Office, 4 mo. 18, 1863 (re "Colored Institute")
Braithwaite, Anna,
Letter, Kendal, 3 mo. 7, 1836 (re news of family and Friends, religious thoughts)
Braithwaite, Isaac,
Letter, Kendal, 4 mo. 6, 1836 (re note enclosed with Kendal marble sample)
Cope, Samuel,
"Substance of a testimony delivered at the close of the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia 1850 by Samuel Cope of New West Chester" [with note on back "A. Fisher, 9/58 (S. Cope's declaratn.")
Cope, Thomas Pim,
Letter?, 1 mo. 18, 1862, containing notes on stock and certificates to "Uncle"
Davis, Isaac R.,
Letter? [or manuscript copy?], Phila. Nov. 5, 1851, sent to Millard Fillmore (re letter of introduction for Alfred Cope, Thomas Wistar, Jr., regarding the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin)
Evans, Thomas,
Letter, 12 mo. 19, 1860 (re financial help for N.C. YM) [w/ printed report on boarding school debt].
Letter, 2 mo. 1863 (re Westtown School)
Fisher, Henry,
Letter, Liverpool, 2 mo. 18, 1829 (re parcel to be sent Stephen Grellet)
Fox, Alfred,
3 letters, Falmouth, 1836 (re plant specimens)
Hayden, Dr. F.V.,
Letter, Washington, D.C. [Smithsonian], Oct. 14, 1862 (re recommendation of a Black man [Solomon G. Brown?] for AC's "Institute")
Hodgson, Thomas,
3 letters, Liverpool, 1835-1836 (re textbooks, news of Friends [John Wilkinson])
Jones, Charles,
Bill for schooling Edward [Cope] from Friends Select School, 1 mo. 1853
Kirkbride, Thomas S.,
Letter, Phila., Pa. Hospital for the Insane, 2 mo. 9, 1858 (re Joe Green)
Lawrie, George G.,
Letter [in French], New Orleans, Feb. 18, 1837
McCarthy, Mary B.,
Letter, Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, Jan. 25, 1836 (re C.M.C. Molony, live oak acorns)
Maris, S.N.,
Letter, Funchal, Jan. 8, 1836 (re news of friends, botany)
Molony, C.M.C.,
Letter, Charlestown, S.C., March 5, 1836 (re live oaks)
Seeds, Thomas M.,
bill for hat, Phila. 10 mo. 5, 1860
Sibley, John Langdon,
2 letters, Harvard College Library, Dec. 1848 and March 1850 (re books)
Smith, Gideon G.,
Letter, Chester, 3 mo. 28, 1836 (re his school)
Sturge, Joseph,
printed circular, New York, 7 mo. 17, 1841 (re slavery)
Tyson, E.C.,
Letter, Pittsburgh, July 3, 1836 (re news of family, travel)
Waln, Edward,
Letter, "No. 2 York Building" 3 mo. 1, 1853 (re papers of Robert Morris)
Wilson, Edward,
Letter, Liverpool, 2 mo. 3, 1836 (re business)
Yarnall, Charles,
Letter, 11 mo. 18, 1840 (re AC chosen a member of Haverford School Association)
Dates
- Creation: 1835-1863
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