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letters (correspondence)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 223 Collections and/or Records:

Lida Lisle Greene papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-085
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the handwritten correspondence between Thomas Drake and Frances B. Watland concerning Lida Lisle Greene's manuscript of a play about John Woolman, as well as the typed script for the play.

Dates: 1941

Henry D. Gregory letters

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-001-047
Abstract

This collection contains two letters from Henry D. Gregory to Charles Yarnall and an unknown recipient.

Dates: 1845

Gummere family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-086
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the correspondence, photographs, and clippings of the Gummere family.

Dates: 1901-1929

Francis Barton Gummere collection

 Collection
Identifier: HCS-001-045
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence, diplomas and memberships, portraits, speeches and songs of Francis Barton Gummere.

Dates: 1874-1925

John Joseph Gurney manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-040
Abstract

The manuscript of John Joseph Gurney includes three parts: "Charlemania Part I," Charlemania Part II," and "An Afternoon at Cambridge and a Morning at Oxford."

According to notes from the curator of Haverford College's Quaker and Special Collections, the manuscript is in the hand of Joseph John Gurney, but is "possibly written in the hand of Anna Gurney, who gave it to Ann Hodgkin, possibly as a wedding present."

Dates: 1830-1833

Haddon-Estaugh-Hopkins papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1001
Abstract

Letters and documents relating chiefly to John Haddon, Quaker and anchor maker of England, to his purchases of land in New Jersey, and the founding and establishing of Haddonfield, New Jersey by Elizabeth, his daughter, who came to the colony in 1701, "to take up her father's land," and who married John Estaugh, a young Quaker preacher, in 1702.

Dates: 1676-1841

Robert B. Haines, III collection

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1011
Abstract

The collection consists almost entirely of autograph letters, signed, mostly addressed to Reuben Haines, 1793-1834, about one-third addressed to him personally, the other two-thirds addressed to him as Corresponding Secretary of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. The writers of the latter were scientists, scholars, and statesmen from all over the world, including John James Audubon, 1785-1851, Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860, and many others.

Dates: 1793 - 1834

Hallowell family papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-087
Abstract

This collection is comprised of the correspondence of Edward Needles Hallowell and various family members, as well as a single photograph of Edward N. Hallowell.

Dates: 1858-1869

Thomas Hamm Collection of Letters

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-278
Abstract This collection consists of five letters, donated by Thomas Hamm, written by Quakers around the East Coast of the United States: a majority of who are from Pennsylvania. The first letter is addressed to Susannah B. Habers of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1807 and is from a child of Habers. The second letter, from James to Thomas Kimber in 1820, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, updates Kimbers about James's infant. In the third letter, Alfred Cope, owner of a prominent Philadelphia shipping...
Dates: 1807-08-15 - 1879-07-20

Cornelia Hancock Correspondence

 Collection — Othertype RG5-308
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-308
Abstract Cornelia Hancock (1840-1927) was a Civil War nurse, Reconstruction-era teacher in South Carolina, and, later, Philadelphia social worker. The papers consist primarily of her letters written in the post-Civil War years, 1865-1879, when she was teaching the children of formerly enslaved people in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. The collection includes reference material used by the donor, Henrietta Stratton Jaquette, in preparation for her book South after Gettysburg which was based on...
Dates: 1861 - 1937; Majority of material found within 1865-1880