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Transcripts and description of the process used by John Ward. Specific books were not indexed or transcribed by him, per instructions from Lynn W. Williams, President Woodlawn Trustees.

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Lecture about Woodlawn presented by Lynn Williams at Crosslands, a retirement community in Kennet Square, Pennsylvania.

Scope and Contents Handwritten notes by Gene Castellane, 2021, concerning the letter books and Swarthmore College. He wrote that the letter books were photocopied in 1998, and digital scans were sold to the Historical Society of Delaware. Also in file, draft deeds of gift from Bancroft descendants, owners of the papers, to Woodlawn Trustees. While the letter books were stored at Woodlawn, the deeds of gift were never signed by senior Bancroft family members. This was confirmed by Benjamin Lovell in 2020 in...

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Stephen Clark and Richard Clark worked to create a full list of journals and letters, some not copied for the transcript project. Sarah (1902-1993), daughter of William Bancroft Clark, had reported that she had located a journal 1908-1922, possibly Lucy Bancroft Gillett's copies

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A summary compiled by Stephen Clark for the Woodlawn Board.

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Compiled by Stephen Clark for the Board of Woodlawn.

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A descendant of William and Emma Bancroft, Chenda Davison proposed to research the beginnings of Woodlawn and write a history. She was hired to continue the referencing and cataloging of John Ward's research work and transcriptions. She maintained the topical order created by John Ward and added an index of the "journals/letter books" under broad categories such as Society of Friends, Schools, Trustees.