Collections | Archives & Manuscripts

Stephen Grellet travel papers

Collection — othertype: SC-234

Identifier: SFHL-SC-234

Abstract

The collection contains travel minutes for Stephen Grellet's ministry in 1800-1805 in the northeastern U.S., a copy of Stephen Grellet's account of the religious conversion of a Swede who was called upon to preach to pirates, and the original and a manuscript copy of Grellet's religious epistle dated 24, 6mo, 1813, to New York Monthly Meeting, sent from Morlaix, France.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1800-1813

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Griffith Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-052

Abstract The Griffith family were Quakers involved in the textile industry in the area of Winchester, Virginia before the Civil War. Aaron H. Griffith was active in the Orthodox branch of Hopewell Monthly Meeting and was an Elder and Clerk of that Meeting. The collection includes family correspondence and miscellaneous manuscripts of the Griffith family, as assembled by Sylvia Dannett who was writing a novel about Aaron H. Griffith's daughter, Harriet Griffith Ellis. Of particular interest are the...

Dates: 1754-1890

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Helen Griffith papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: BMC-Griffith

Abstract Helen Griffith was a member of Bryn Mawr’s class of 1905. After graduation, she taught English at Mount Holyoke, Bennett, and Tougaloo Colleges. In 1966, she published a biography of Sarah Dickey titled “Dauntless in Mississippi: The Life of Sarah A. Dickey.” Griffith died in 1976. The Helen Griffith papers houses Griffith’s college diary and scrapbook. The diary spans 1903-1910, but the bulk of the entries describe either her junior and senior years at Bryn Mawr (1903-1905) or her first...

Dates: 1901 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1901 - 1905

Found in: Bryn Mawr College

Bruce Grimes and Geoffrey Kaiser Journal Collection

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-284

Abstract

Bruce Grimes and Geoffrey Kaiser are Quakers and were involved in Friends for Lesbian and Gay Concerns from its beginning in the early 1970s. The collection contains their manuscript and typescript journals entitled Gay Quakers in the Late Twentieth Century; it also includes personal correspondence and addenda.

Dates: 1971-1999

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Anna Bassett Griscom Papers

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-053

Abstract Anna Bassett Griscom (Elkinton) (1889-1974) was a prominent American Quaker active in the peace movement. She served as Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931. The collection includes correspondence, speeches...

Dates: ca. 1914-1962

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Griscom family correspondence

Collection — othertype: SC-050

Identifier: SFHL-SC-050

Abstract This collection primarily includes correspondence between William Wade Griscom and his family while he was at Benjamin Hallowell's boarding school in Alexandria, Virginia. Correspondents include his father, William, his stepmother, Sarah Whitelock, and his sister, Hannah S. Included are grade reports from Friends Central School and from Alexandria Boarding School, descriptions by William Wade Griscom of his trips to Washington, D.C., and an account of a lecture by Horace Mann. Also included...

Dates: 1844-1896

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Griscom Hall Association

Collection

Identifier: SFHL-RG4-041

Abstract

Griscom Hall Association was a Quaker organization which established and ran Griscom Hall, a summer recreational facility for young Quakers in Buck Hill Falls, Pennsylvania. The collection contains correspondence, reports, a history of the Hall and the Association, and other related papers.

Dates: 1907-1961

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

John Mietou Griscom diary

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-030

Abstract

John M. Grisom was a physician who lived and practiced in Moorestown, Burlington, New Jersey. His diary focuses on his attendance at "Friendly Study Group" meetings, a group, according to Griscom, that gathers for "the study of the influences and causes leading to the separation of 1827." Entries describe discussions had at these meetings.

Dates: 1912-1914

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections