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Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1189
Abstract Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton were 20th-century Quaker educators and prolific authors whose areas of expertise included the physical sciences and the Classics. Notably, they also worked for the American Friends Service Committee in Europe, for Friends Center in Tokyo, Japan, and as directors of Pendle Hill, an adult study center in Wallingford, PA. They were both recorded ministers in the Religious Society of Friends. This collection also contains materials of other...
Dates: 1859-2005

Joseph Brinton Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-233
Abstract

Joseph Brinton, an outspoken member of the Society of Friends from southeastern Pennsylvania, was active in the Wilburite schisms of the 1850s and 1860's in New England. His family papers include his own journals, as well as his extensive correspondence. This collection also includes the correspondence of his two wives, Mary H. Brinton and Anna H. Brinton.

Dates: 1758-1931

Cadbury-Brown Family papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1177
Abstract

19th-century papers of the interrelated Cadbury and Brown Quaker families.

Dates: 1804-1974

Emma Cadbury papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1017
Abstract

The papers of Emma Cadbury (1875-1965), a Quaker social worker, consist of correspondence, programs, essays, notebooks, and clippings. These papers were kept by Cadbury while attending Quaker Women's Yearly Meetings and summer schools at Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges and the George School (Pennsylvania), during the early 20th century.

Dates: 1894-1963

Addition to Henry J. Cadbury papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1121-addition
Abstract

Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was one of the foremost American Quaker scholars of the 20th century. He published in the fields of Quaker and biblical history, and served as a teacher and philanthropist. This addition to the papers of Henry Cadbury includes biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, writings, such as his The Book of Acts in History and photographs of Cadbury and his family.

Dates: 1866-1987

Cope-Evans Family papers

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Identifier: HC.MC-1170
Abstract

Letters (with accompanying poetry, acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers, account books, and computer disks. Primarily letters of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); other families include Brown, Drinker, and Haines.

Dates: 1732-1911

Emlen Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-038
Abstract Contains papers relating to the Emlen family, residents of Middletown and West Chester, Pennsylvania. Chiefly correspondence (1817-1849) of Sarah Foulke Farquhar Emlen (1787-1849), Quaker minister, relating to her travels to visit Friends' meetings in England, Ireland, New England, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia. Also correspondence of Quaker ministers 1740-1790, copybooks, and memorabilia. Includes material relating to Westtown School, a Quaker boarding...
Dates: 1740 - 1886; Majority of material found within 1817 - 1849

Evans family correspondence

 Collection — othertype: SC-035
Identifier: SFHL-SC-035
Abstract

This collection includes photocopies of letters from Joseph and Hannah Evans addressed to their children William, Joseph, and Mary, while they attended Westtown Boarding School. Also included are letters from William Evans to his parents, and from Joseph Evans to his brother. These letters primarily relate family news.

Dates: 1799-1801

Fair Hill Boarding School records

 Collection — othertype: SC-036
Identifier: SFHL-SC-036
Abstract This collection includes manuscripts relating to the establishment of Fair Hill Boarding School by the Baltimore Yearly Meeting. Included are documents concerning the purchase of land, distribution of the Fair Hill Fund, and lists of rules for Westtown and Nine Partners Boarding Schools. These materials reflect Quaker views of education and their objectives in the establishment of Quaker schools. Especially interesting is a letter from Ann King relating the efforts of Nine Partners School to...
Dates: 1815-1869

Foster-Meyers Family Papers

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Identifier: SFHL-RG5-221
Abstract Contains the papers of the Foster Family, a Wilburite New England Quaker family of Rhode Island, and the Meyers Family, conservative Orthodox Quakers of the Midwest. The families were united in 1924 by the marriage of Henry Cope Foster (1895-1987) of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Thyra Jane Meyers (1898-1984), born in West Branch, Iowa. The collection contains extensive personal correspondence of five generations of the Foster and Meyers families, school materials, diaries, writings,...
Dates: 1765-2006

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Brinton, Howard Haines, 1884-1973 2
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Cadbury, Lydia C. Shinn 2
Cadbury, Lydia Caroline Brown, 1889-1978 2
Cadbury, Richard, 1825-1897 2
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Foster, Mary C. (Mary Cope), 1854-1936 2
Hunn family 2
Kite family 2
Meyers, Joseph E. (Joseph Elkinton), 1858-1937 2
Miles, Catharine Cox 2
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends (Orthodox : 1827-1955) 2
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Sharples, Edith, 1743-1787 2
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Bacon, Edward, 1823-1888 1
Bacon, Elizabeth, 1794-1844 1
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Bacon, Thomas, 1789-1838 1
Balch, Emily Greene, 1867-1961 1
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Balderston, Lloyd, 1863-1933 1
Balderston, Mary F. 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting Of Friends (Nottingham : 1854 1868) 1
Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends (Hicksite : 1828-1968). Committee on Education 1
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Baxter family 1
Baxter, Mary, 1830-1918 1
Baxter, William, 1824-1886 1
Bean family 1
Bentley, Caleb, 1761?-1851 1
Biddle family 1
Biddle, Clement M. (Clement Miller), 1876-1959 1
Biddle, Owen, 1737-1799 1
Biddle, William Canby, 1864-1942 1
Bowles, Minnie, 1868-1958 1
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Brinton, Charles, b. 1876 1
Brinton, David, b. 1864 1
Brinton, Edward 1
Brinton, Elma, b. 1872 1
Brinton, Gulielma C., 1794-1879 1
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Brinton, Ruthanna 1
Brinton, Susanna, b. 1833 1
Brinton, William, 1785-1878 1
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Brinton, Yuki 1
Brown, Caroline Cadbury, 1851-1914 1
Brown, John, 1783-1841 1
Brown, Moses, 1738-1836 1
Brown, Thomas Kite, 1851-1929 1
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Buck, Mattie 1
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Cadbury, Catharine Balderston 1
Cadbury, Catherine J. 1
Cadbury, Emma, 1875-1965 1
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