Box 35
Container
Contains 3 Results:
Letters, 1941
File — Box: 35, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include Lydia Cope Sharpless, Fred and Louise Sharpless, and John and Edward Rich. They describe the way foreigners, inlcuding missionaries, were living, Japanese customs and culture, and Sharpless' efforts to apply the knowledge to her behavior. They also refer to Haverford College missions in China, her teaching responsibilties, the impact of a July 27, 1941 flood, thoughts about deciding to stay in Japan, the impact of the war on community of foreigners and living in Japan...
Dates:
1941
Artbook
File — Box: 35, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
Artbook created by 4th year students at Keisen Girls' School, depicting their week.
Commonplace Book
File — Box: 35, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
This album was a birthday album, primarily written by Edith to her mother, Lydia Sharpless in 1936. It also includes greetings from others, including Gurney Binford, Esther Rhoads, and Arishima Takeo (transcribed from Japanese about Haverford College and Isaac Sharpless), and a water color drawing by Anna Cope Hartshorne, a signed print by Mary Vaux Walvott, and photographs of other Quaker missionaries.
