Box 5
Contains 27 Results:
Thompson, Charles N. correspondence, 1897-1900
Thompson was the treasurer, book-keeper, and purchasing agent for the George School 1896-1905
Thompson, Charles N. correspondence, 1901-1903
Maris, George correspondence, 1903
Maris served as the first headmaster of the George School. He had been superintendent of Friends' schools under Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and taught part-time at Swarthmore College. He was replaced in 1901 by Joseph Walton. In his correspondence, Maris advises against having a junior school, thinks that George School should not compete with elementary schools operated by local meetings.
Webster, Edmund correspondence, 1903
Concerning planting trees on the campus
Joseph Walton, et al, from Bancroft, 1910
On subject of appointing a principal of the School. Joseph Walton served as headmaster 1901-1912.
Walton, George A. correspondence, 1913-1914
George Walton succeeded his father as headmaster, 1912-1948. Of particular interest is Bancroft's reservation about having boys under the age of fourteen for boarding school, reflecting his own unhappy experience between ages of 9 and 11 years old.
Typed copies of letters from Bancroft to/concerning George Maris, 1894-1903, n.d.
Apparently excerpted from Letter Books, file labeled "Sensitive in Bus. Off. Safe"
Typed copies of letters from Bancroft concerning staffing issues, 1911, n.d.
Apparently excerpted from Letter Books, file labeled "Sensitive in Bus. Off. Safe"
Typed copies of letters from Bancroft concerning staffing issues, 1912, n.d.
Apparently excerpted from Letter Books, file labeled "Sensitive in Bus. Off. Safe"
Typed copies of letters from Bancroft concerning his will and other issues, 1918, 1923, n.d.
Apparently excerpted from Letter Books, file labeled "Sensitive in Bus. Off. Safe"