Box 2

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Obituary published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, 1973. Frances Richardson, active in Philadelphia Yearly Meeting and Byberry Monthly Meeting, author of reminiscences published in 1970 and graduate of Swarthmore College.

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Accounts of the special occasions and daily lives of her nieces and nephews. The second volume was continued by Henry and Jessie Cooper's daughter, Elizabeth Morgan Cooper (b. 1891), who graduated from Radcliffe and taught at the Baldwin School. She recorded the events of her siblings and their children.

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Anna and two companions traveled to Los Angeles and then north into Canada. The journal includes interesting descriptions of the slums and opium dens of Chinatown in San Francisco and notes prominent sites along the route. Photographs and postcards have been glued into the journal and are commented on extensively.

Scope and Contents TMs (photocopy), memoir of [Morgan]Cooper Walker, the son of Robert Hunt Walker (1882-1948) and Amelia Himes Walker (1880-1974) and grandson of Lucy (Cooper) and Elisha Walker. His parents were both graduates of Swarthmore College, Class of 1902. The memoir describes his childhood; discusses being raised on farm north of Baltimore, Md., particularly the African-Americans who lived with them and raised him; his uneasiness with Quakers, and his mother’s feminist activities. Ameilia Himes...