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Chase, Alice Cromwell

 File — Box: 1

Scope and Contents

(7 items)includes letter of Alice [Chase] to Carrie, from Lawnside, 4/19/1865 re: service held at Haverford for Lincoln, her and her husband's reactions, on hearing the news, their trip into town (train searched), stores closed [gift of M.C. Scattergood, 1939], draft of a thank you to Haverford classes of 1861­2­3 for gift of silver pitcher, envelope from Caroline Chase giving letter of her mother at the time of Lincoln's death (with note of [Prof.] R[ichard] M. Sutton to Thomas Drake re: gift of same to college, Quakeriana Notes, no. 11, sixth mo., 1940 with article on Chase papers and transcript of letter of Alice Chase to Carrie re: Lincoln's death [the original letter is in the other box and needs to be moved here], 2 photographs of Alice Chase (one with daughter "Carlie") [gifts of Eleanor W. Taber, 1951], typed extract of above letter re: Lincoln

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