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Box 35

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Contains 27 Results:

Joseph Elkinton letters, Asia trip, 1905, 8 mo

 File — Box: 35
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Returns to the US, with visit to Canada before returning to Media at the end of the month

Dates: 1905, 8 mo

Joseph Elkinton letters, 1906

 File — Box: 35
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Some from trip to Europe. Letter to mother mentions Nitobe’s assignment to Formosa

Dates: 1906

Joseph Elkinton correspondence, 1907

 File — Box: 35
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Letters to the Scattergoods and from Charles Cuthbert Hall, President of Union Theological Seminary in reply to Elkinton’s invitation for him to invest in Pocono Lake.

Dates: 1907

Joseph Elkinton correspondence, 1911-1913

 File — Box: 35
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Many from Pocono Lake. Letter to Albert Votaw, 1912, refers to his African American friend Booth of Alabama who lectured at Westtown School. Also copy of the 1913 travel minute from Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for his mission to Europe and Great Britain accompanied by his wife Sarah and daughters Mary Cope and Frances.

Dates: 1911-1913

Joseph and Sarah Elkinton letters, 1914

 File — Box: 35
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Letters in January are from his cottage in Orlando, FL. In May, he traveled to Europe. They were in Norway when war broke out.

Dates: 1914

Joseph Elkinton letters, 1915, 1-2mon

 File — Box: 35
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In January, Elkinton began a trip with stops in the Midwest and Whittier College before heading to San Francisco and then

Dates: 1915, 1-2mon