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Esther A. Balderston Jones Papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1038

Scope and Contents This collection comprises correspondence, creative works, and ephemera by and about Esther A. Balderston Jones. The collection ranges from 1898 to 1998, and is mostly comprised of business and personal correspondence. The letters were written between 1898 and 1921 back and forth between family members while Jones was traveling in Europe. They document her transportation and experiences abroad. The letters also detail her international missionary endeavors in Germany and Japan. Included in...

Dates: 1898 - 1998

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Jones Family papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1009

Abstract

The papers of Eli and Sybil Jones, 19th century Quaker missionaries, most notably to the Middle East where they established missions on Mt. Lebanon and in Ramallah, Palestine; the correspondence of Charles and Ellen Jones, also 19th century Quaker missionaries in Ramallah; and the letters of Quaker James Parnell Jones, son of Eli and Sybil Jones, who fought in the Civil War.

Dates: 1821-1918

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

George & Ann Jones notebook

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-019

Scope and Content note This collection is comprised of a single volume manuscript notebook, with notes related to a disturbance at the Mulberry Street House, when George and Ann Jones held an evening meeting, in 1826. According to the first entry, at a meeting of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia, a committee was created for “ascertaining the facts, and enquiring into the cause of the disturbance which occurred in the vicinity of our meeting house a few weeks since.” The notebook records the meetings...

Dates: 1826-1827

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Hannah M. Jones index

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-018

Scope and Content note

This collection is comprised of three volumes of an index created by Hannah M. Jones, given to her aunt, Mary Ann Jones. The indexes include the deaths and marriages of Quakers, copied from The Friend, and arranged alphabetically.

Dates: 1827-1914

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Margaret E. Jones Papers

Collection — othertype: RG5-167

Identifier: SFHL-RG5-167

Abstract Margaret E. Jones (1895-1984), daughter of William B. and Phebe Jones, was a birthright Quaker member of Moorestown Monthly Meeting of Friends in New Jersey. She was involved with the American Friends Service Committee for many years, first as a staff member, then serving on the Board of Directors. The collection contains scrapbooks kept by Margaret E. Jones while she was in Europe involved in relief work in 1933 and again from 1958-1959. Includes a number of photographs of places and...

Dates: 1937-1969

Found in: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Mary Hoxie Jones collection

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-1310

Abstract

The Mary Hoxie Jones collection includes genealogy and history materials on the Jones and Cadbury families, photo albums and scrapbooks of travel by Mary Hoxie Jones, and personal correspondence and poetry.

Dates: 1915-2002

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Mary Hoxie Jones papers

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-950-107

Abstract

This collection is comprised of the typed scripts of a play written by Mary Hoxie Jones, entitled "The King's Missive," as well as two copies of the program of the Annual Business Meeting and Entertainment of Friends Historical Association, and a reproduced letter with a wax seal addressed to "Carles R." and signed by "William Morris," and was presumably used as a prop in a production of "The King's Missive."

Dates: 1930-1931

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Mary Hoxie Jones recollection of Halley's Comet

Collection

Identifier: HC.MC-950-291

Abstract

This collection contains a note written by Mary Hoxie Jones in 1985 where she reflects on her experience seeing Halley's comet as a six year old. This note was written around a year before the next passing of Halley's Comet in 1986.

Dates: 1985

Found in: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections