Thomas and Eliza Foulke Research Papers
Scope and Contents
Contains the research papers of Norma Adams Price and Barbara Sprogell Jacobson, authors of a book about Thomas and Eliza Foulke who were prominent Friends and members of Gwynedd Friends Meeting.
Dates
- Creation: 1921-1989 [bulk 1987-1989]
Creator
- Jacobson, Barbara Sprogell (Person)
- Price, Norma Adams (Contributor, Person)
- Jacobson, Barbara Sprogell (Contributor, Person)
- Foulke, Eliza Moore Ambler, 1893-1987 (Contributor, Person)
- Foulke, Thomas Albert, 1893-1962 (Contributor, Person)
- Gwynedd Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (1936- ) (Contributor, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to reuse, publish, or reproduce items in this collection beyond the bounds of Fair Use or other exemptions to copyright law must be obtained from the copyright holder or their heirs/assigns. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/.
Biographical / Historical
This collection consists of the papers accumulated from 1987-1989 by Barbara Sprogell Jacobson in the course of researching and writing her and Norma Adams Price's book about the Foulkes: Thomas and Eliza Foulke of Gwynedd Friends Meeting: What Love Can Do. Thomas Albert Foulke (1893-1962) and Eliza Moore Ambler Foulke (1893-1987) were prominent members of Gwynedd Meeting. They served for the AFSC in Japan (1949-1950) and were influential in the unification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings in 1956.
Extent
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Thomas Albert Foulke (1893-1962) and Eliza Moore Ambler Foulke (1893-1987) were prominent members of Gwynedd Meeting. They served for the AFSC in Japan (1949-1950) and were influential in the unification of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings in 1956. Collection contains the research papers of Norma Adams Price and Barbara Sprogell Jacobson, authors of a book about Thomas and Eliza Foulke who were prominent Friends and members of Gwynedd Friends Meeting.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into four series:
- Correspondence
- Draft, What Love Can Do
- Miscellaneous
- Final draft of “Friends' Remembrances of Thomas and Eliza Foulke.”
Physical Location
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Barbara Sprogell Jacobson, 1991, 1993; Accession Number: 91.22
Separated Materials
A photograph of the George School Class of 1912 was removed and placed in Oversize.
Processing Information
Consists chiefly of correspondence and tributes from people who knew the Foulkes and drafts of “What Love Can Do.” The materials were sorted and divided into three series. Photographs were removed for proper storage.
Topical
- Title
- An Inventory of the Thomas and Eliza Foulke Research Papers, 1921-1989 [bulk 1987-1989]
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 1993
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
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