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Haverford College Library's Special Collections Department houses
many large collections of family, personal, and institutional papers. These materials
are primarily related to the history and activities of the Society of Friends
(Quakers) and its members and date from the late seventeenth century to the present.
Among the topics represented in these manuscript collections are social reform,
social justice, spirituality, abolitionism, education, the progress of Native
Americans, and peace activism. Of particular note are collections which provide
insight into the lives of succeeding generations of individual families over two
centuries.
In order to make these collections more accessible to scholars,
finding aids, or highly detailed guides, have been created over the years. In
the fall of 1996, the Evans Finding Aid Project staff began to convert these finding
aids for use on the World Wide Web. In addition to the basic text, the finding
aids also include images of selected documents, artifacts, and graphics from the
collections.
This project would not have been possible without the generous
financial support and encouragement of J. Morris Evans (Haverford '43), whose
ongoing commitment to and interest in Friends' history is greatly appreciated.
INDEX: A,
B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, P, R, S, T, W
A
- Allinson Family Papers (1710-1939)
- Ms. Coll.968 (19 boxes). Papers include correspondence, poetry,
commonplace books, journals and diaries, deeds, marriage certificates, diplomas,
legal and financial papers, genealogical material, memorials, pictures, silhouettes,
maps, scrapbooks, and clippings relating to the extended Allinson family in the
Philadelphia region. Letters include those of thirty-one family members as well
as Anthony Benezet, Patrick Henry and George Washington. Journals and diaries
include William Allinson's Journal describing visit to Indians in New York State
in 1809 and Rebecca Jones' journal for 1788-89, and her Diary aboard the Pigou
in 1788.
- Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs
(1758-1929)
- Ms. Coll. 1003 (8 boxes). The Associated Executive Committee
of Friends on Indian Affairs originated in 1869 in answer to President Grant's
Peace Policy, officially giving management of the Indians in the Central Superintendency
(Kansas and the Indian Territory) to the Orthodox branch of the Society of Friends.
These are primarily letters, reports and some miscellaneous manuscripts chiefly
addressed to the chairman of the committee, Edward M. Wistar; articles, plans,
maps and statistics related to the committee's work. Most of the material deals
with the work of Friends in running mission stations in Oklahoma among the Iowa,
Modoc, Kickapoo, Oto, Shawnee, Osage and other Indians.
- Iwao Frederick Ayusawa Papers (1918-1964)
- Ms. Coll. 969 (2 boxes). Iwao Frederick Ayusawa, (1894 - 1972
), graduated from Columbia University in 1920, went to Geneva, Switzerland to
serve the Japanese Delegation to the International Labor Organization. In 1934
he returned to Japan to take the position of Director of the Tokyo Branch Office
of the ILO until 1939 and the advent of WWII. After the war, he served on the
Central Labor Relations Board until 1948. In 1952 he joined the faculty of International
Christian University in Japan. Almost all the letters in this collection speak
of the friendship Ayusawa has with Edward and Margaret Thomas, which grew out
of their taking him "under their wing" while he was a young student
in N.Y. City. Primarily personal in nature, the letters give insights into his
beliefs (pacifism, etc.) and include information on his work in Geneva and Japan.
B
- British Friends' Letters (1650-1985)
- Ms Coll.861 (5 boxes). Letters of English Friends containing
information on Quaker history and throwing light on religious and cultural activities.
The collection also includes letters relating to the activities of early Friends,
including a 1690 letter from Robert Barrow (d. 1697), telling of the death and
burial of George Fox, 2 letters, 1661, of William Dewsbury (1621-1688), written
while imprisoned in York castle and a 1716 arrest warrant for Thomas Story (1662-1742),
for preaching in Kilkenny.
- Moses Brown Papers (1815-1911)
- Ms. Coll. 1024 (2 boxes). Correspondence, legal, land and estate
papers (wills, powers of attorney, deeds, mortgages, bonds, etc.), account book,
ms. book, and other papers of the Quaker Brown family of Philadelphia and New
Hampshire.
- Anthony Benezet Papers (1750-1936) (bulk 1750-1784)
- Ms. Coll. 852 (1 box). Letters (ALS and AL), also typed and handwritten
transcripts, photocopies and other papers. Many letters relate to Benezet's views
on slavery and his work to end the slave trade. Other topics discussed are: the
use of taxes to pay for war; the condition of American Indians; Benezet's school
and thoughts on teaching.
C
- Emma Cadbury Papers (ca.1894-1963)
- Ms. Coll. 1017 (2 boxes). Emma Cadbury (1875-1965) was committed
to the international aspect of Friends' work and visited Vienna several times
where she served the Quaker Center there. She was chairman of Wider Quaker Fellowship
of the American Section of the Friends' World Committee from 1943-1963. Much of
the collection relates to Cadbury's work with Friends' discussion, study, reading
and round table groups and includes correspondence, programs, essays, notebooks,
clippings, notebooks kept by Cadbury while attending summer schools at Haverford,
Bryn Mawr and the George School and notebooks kept by Cadbury while attending
Women's Yearly Meetings.
- Thomas Chase Papers (1843-1947, bulk 1843-1892)
- Ms. Coll. 965 (2 boxes) Correspondence, portraits, photographs,
clippings, articles, addresses, lecture notes, diary and misc. papers related
to Thomas Chase, (1827-1892), his family and his years at Haverford as professor
and president of the college.
- Cope - Evans Family Papers (1732-1911)
- Ms. Coll. 1170 (16 boxes). Letters (with accompanying poetry,
acrostics, drawings, clippings, etc.), marriage certificates, photographs, friendship
book, estate related papers and account books, computer disks. Primarily letters
of the closely related Quaker families of Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia,
Pa.); other families include Brown, Drinker and Haines.
- Edward Drinker Cope Papers (1848-1940)
- Ms. Coll. 956 (1 box). Letters, notebooks, notes and sketches
related to Cope's work in paleontology and related natural sciences. Also sketches
of birds, reptiles and amphibians, some colored. Letters on various scientific
subjects from Alexander Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Alexander Graham Bell, Pliny Earle
Chase, Havelock Ellis, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Arnold Henry Guyot, Joseph Henry,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Thomas Henry Huxley, Maria Mitchell, Sir Richard Owen,
Robert Edwin Peary, Herbert Spencer and others.
- Thomas P. Cope Family Papers (1795-1891)
- Ms. Coll. 1013 (6 boxes). Letters, legal, business and financial
papers, accounts, minutes, diary, portraits and other papers chiefly related to
the Cope family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Topics include business and civic
interests in Philadelphia, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committee aiding German
Separatists led by Joseph M. Bimeler (Baumler), Separation of 1827-1828, slavery
and immigration of free blacks to Haiti, War of 1812, etc. Letters (1854-1857)
of Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) discuss his work assisting fleeing slaves.
D
- Henry Drinker Correspondence (1777-1778)
- Ms. Coll. 854 (1 box). Correspondence between Henry and his wife
Elizabeth relates to his arrest, imprisonment and resulting forced exile to Winchester,
Va. during the American Revolution. His letters discuss his physical and spiritual
well-being, concern for his children, news of other exiled Friends and efforts
to present their case before Pa. and Va. authorities. Elizabeth Drinker's letters
to her husband relate family and neighborhood news, Friends' visits and efforts
on behalf of the exiles and her constant concern for her husband.
- Dunn - Osborn - Battey Family Papers, 1744-1927
- Ms. Coll. 1163 (9 boxes). Correspondence, account books, receipts,
bills and other financial papers, notebook, printed items, and other miscellaneous
papers primarily of the Dunn, Osborn and Battey families. Letters of Nathan Dunn
(1782-1844) discuss trade with China and his experiences there. Household and
farming bills and receipts of Restore S. Lamb, Rhoda O. Lamb and Phebe Osborn.
Letters of Nancy S. Battey, 1864-1865, some while teaching free black children
in Yorktown.
E
- Emlen Institution for the Benefit of Children
of African and Indian Descent 1765-1956
- Ms. Coll. 999 (4 boxes). The Emlen Institution for the Benefit
of Children of African and Indian descent was the result of a bequest from Samuel
Emlen, Jr., a Burlington, N.J. Friend who died in 1837. Emlen left money ($20,000)
for the "education, maintenance and instruction in school learning and in
agriculture and mechanical trades or arts, of free male orphan children of African
or Indian descent..."
- John Ewer Letters (1737-1799)
- Ms. Coll. 957 (1 box). Letters of John Ewer to Owen Biddle of
Philadelphia. Ewer was supplying Biddle, a Philadelphia merchant, with fabric
of various kinds and patterns. Most of the letters deal with shipping this merchandise
to Biddle and payment for same. There are references to the increasing difficulties
between Great Britain and the Colonies in Ewer's letters of 1775-76.
F
- George Fox Papers (1660-1952)
- Ms. Coll 862 (2 boxes). The bulk of this collection consists
of portraits, photographs, illustrations, articles, clippings, pamphlets and a
map concerning the life and times of George Fox. Topics covered include Fox's
itinerary of his trip to America, the Dutch Bible Fox carried with him on his
trip to Holland in 1677, pictures of places associated with Fox, birthplace, funeral
and grave of Fox. Includes material from the George Fox tercentenary of 1924 (on
the 300th anniversary of his birth).
G
- John B. Garrett Papers, 1853-1961 (bulk
1853-1872)
- Ms. Coll. 903 (2 boxes). John B. Garrett (1836-1924) was an original
member of the Associated Executive Committee of Friends on Indian Affairs. Topics
discussed include appointment of agents, missionary work, Indian education and
citizenship, use of military force, annuity goods, opening of Indian Territory
to settlement by whites, etc. Includes minutes of the committee for 1871; letter
of Garrett to his family telling of visit to Fort Smith, Arkansas as part of the
Grand Indian Council in 1865, also 17 photographs of Indians present at the Council
and printed reports of the meetings.
- Germantown Employment Society for Women Papers (1871-1957)
- Ms. Coll. 1023 (1 box). The Germantown Employment Society for
Women originated out of a concern felt by a group of Quaker women associated with
Germantown Monthly Meeting to aid women with little or no income and no way of
earning money outside the home. In 1957 the Society was absorbed into the Female
Society of Philadelphia for the Relief and Employment of the Poor.
- Stephen Grellet Papers (1796-1955) (bulk 1796-1833)
- Ms. Coll. 967 (1 box). Letters, diary fragments and other miscellaneous
papers. Primarily related to Grellet's travels in Europe, Russia and Haiti as
a Quaker missionary. Topics include his spiritual life, meeting leaders of religious
denominations in Europe, with Friends and other religious sects (Saints), visits
to schools, prisons, poorhouses and hospitals during travels, visits with members
of European aristocracy, Russian nobility and Pope Pius VII (1819), social and
religious situation in Haiti (1816).
H
- Robert B. Haines, III Collection
- 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 prominent scientists, scholars, and statesmen from all over the world, notably,
John James Audubon, 1785-1851, Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, Rembrandt Peale, 1778-1860,
and many others.
- Hartshorne Family Papers, 1797-1957
- Papers include correspondence of thirty-two members and relatives
of the Hartshorne family. Of special interest are the medical notes, articles,and
correspondence, 1819-1845, of Joseph Hartshorne, M.D. These are noteworthy because
of his many innovations in surgery, such as the use of animal ligatures, plus
his detailed descriptions of treatments for various ailments; also, the correspondence
of Anna C. Hartshorne covering her missionary work in Japan, and Henry Hartshorne's
"Letters from Japan, " printed in the Friends Review, l893-1894,
plus sermons, etc., given by him while in Japan with Anna, 1893-1897. The bulk
of the Collection consists of the correspondence, medical papers, literary works,
etc., of Henry Hartshorne, M.D., son of Joseph and father of Anna. Papers also
include genealogical material on the Bonsall, Hartshorne, Saunders, Yarnall, and
Cope families as well as photographs.
- Enoch Hoag Indian Papers 1865-1883
- Ms.Coll. 1034 (3 boxes). Enoch Hoag (1812-1884) was appointed
Superintendent of the Central Superintendency in 1869 by President Grant under
Grant's "Peace Policy". Tribes under care of Orthodox Friends by whom
Hoag was appointed included the Kickapoo, Shawnee, Potawatomi, Kansas, Osage,
Quapaw, Sac and Fox, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache. Almost
all of this collection concerns the finances of the Central Superintendency and
the settling of various accounts with Washington, D.C. The papers also touch on
the work of Indian agents, the transportation of tribes to the reserves, the progress
and politics of getting Indian legislation through Congress, and troubles at various
Indian Agencies.
- Enoch Hoag Letterbooks 1870-1878
- Ms. Coll. 1104 (16 volumes). These are letterpress books in which
copies of letters are made by placing the original letter on a dampened tissue-like
leaf of the book, the book is then placed in a press and the pressure transfers
the image of the letter to the letterpress page. Because of the nature of the
process, there is a great deal of variation as to the readability of individual
letters.Content of this collection includes: letters to the Commissioner of Indian
Affairs in Washington, letters to the Indian Agents under the jurisdiction of
Hoag, and letters characterized as "Individual letters.
- Gulielma M. Howland (Collector) Papers (1700-1867) (bulk 1750-1840)
- Ms. Coll. 1000 (13 boxes). Chiefly correspondence between related
Quaker families of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware (Allinson, Cox, Dillwyn,
Emlen, Hill, Hilles, Howland, Logan, Moore, Morris, Smith and others). Also journals,
poetry, portraits, legal and business papers. Letters chiefly discuss family,
friends, health, spiritual matters and travel. Much of the correspondence is between
Quaker women.
I
- Indian Committee of Philadelphia Yearly
Meeting
- see Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Records 1745-1983
J
- Jones-Cadbury Family Papers (ca.1770-1994)
- Ms. Coll. 1172 (140 boxes). Primarily correspondence. Also diaries,
photographs, poetry, account books, clippings, printed material, drafts of talks,
speeches, essays, reports, chapters, and books, artifacts, articles, genealogy,
scrapbooks, receipts, bills, business, land and estate papers, sketch books, autograph
albums, commonplace books, song books, address books, memorandum books, other
notebooks, published items with handwritten annotations, linen picturebooks, guest
books, play, portraits, deeds, silhouettes, card files and other papers. Bulk
of collection is comprised of papers of the related Quaker families of Cadbury,
Jones and Warder. Other families represented include Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke,
Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn, Shipley.
- Rufus M. Jones Collection (1800 to present)
- Ms. Coll. 1130 (154 boxes). This box list is given as a guide
to the collection while the finding aid is under development. Rufus Jones taught
at Haverford College as full professor for 30 years. Throughout this time he was
active in the international efforts of Friends through such organizations as World
Conference of Friends, American Friends Service Committee, American Friends Fellowship
Council, and Wider Quaker Fellowship. During his career Jones also published over
50 works related to mysticism, Quakerism and history. Materials in this collection
include letters to and from Jones, diaries, manuscripts, photographs and professional
notes.
- Jones Family Papers (1821-1951)
- Ms. Coll. 1009 (9 boxes). Correspondence, traveling minutes,
journals and diaries, accounts of travels abroad, albums, memorials, poetry, legal
and business papers, photographs and sketches, maps of Friends Meetings and missions
and other papers of Eli (1807-1890) and Sybil (1808-1873) Jones, Quaker ministers
and missionaries from Maine. Also papers of Richard Mott Jones (1843-1917, teacher
and Headmaster of William Penn Charter School, 1875-1917).
K
- R. W. Kelsey's Notes on American and Agricultural
History
- Ms. Coll. 1108 (3 boxes). Rayner W. Kelsey (1879-1934) was professor
of history at Haverford College (1909-1934). In 1922 he was named curator of the
Quaker Collection at Haverford. Kelsey was the author of Friends and the Indians
(1917) and editor of the journal of Theophile Cazenove (1740-1811). This collection
is comprised of notes, extracts and transcripts from primary and secondary sources
related to American colonial history and Pennsylvania agricultural history of
the colonial and early Federal periods. Includes 2 file card boxes of notes, arranged
by topic by Kelsey, of his research on PA agricultural history. Also notes, extracts
and transcripts of letters and documents (petitions, proclamations, etc.) relating
to British colonial tea and sugar trade, also the Stamp act of 1765; includes
transcripts of letters (1797-1799) of Theophile Cazenove related to Holland Land
Company transactions.
L
- Josiah W. Leeds Scrapbooks (1872-1907)
- Ms. Coll. 1102. Twenty-two scrapbooks of correspondence (ca.
2,000 letters) of Josiah Woodward Leeds (1841-1908) with persons involved in the
social reform movements of the late 19th century as well as tracts and clippings
of articles and editorials written by Leeds and articles on topics of interest
to him.
M
- Morley Family Papers (1890-1986)
- Ms. Coll. 807 (57 boxes). Much of this collection concerns the
life of Christopher Darlington Morley (1890-1957) who reached the pinnacle of
his popularity as a writer in the 1930s and 1940s. Erudite and witty, he probed
every literary genre and exhibited a style of substance and facility. Christopher
Morley will always hold a position of importance at Haverford, both as one of
its august alumni (class of 1910), and as the son of its well-respected professor,
Frank Morley, and brother of two other Haverford graduates, all three of whom
were Rhodes scholars and one (Felix) who came back to Haverford to become its
president.
- Richard Mott Papers (1799-1863)
- Ms. Coll. 961 (2 boxes). Chiefly letters (1799-1853) by Richard
and Abigail Mott addressed to Margaret Allinson (later Parker), John Cox, William
Rotch, Jr., Samuel B. Toby and others, as well as letters (1799-1856) to Richard
Mott from Richard Carpenter, John Cox, Jonathan and Thomas Evans, Joseph John
Gurney, John Pease, William Rotch, Jr. and others. Topics discussed include Elias
Hicks and the Separation of 1827-1828, John Wilbur and the Wilbur-Gurney controversy.
P
- Pemberton Family Papers (1741-1789)
- Correspondence (personal and business) and other papers of Israel
Pemberton (1715-1779), James Pemberton (1723-1809) and John Pemberton (1727-1795),
the sons of Israel Pemberton (1684-1754) and Rachel Read Pemberton of Philadelphia.
Letters to and from Israel Pemberton are noteworthy for chiefly discussing "Friendly
Association for the Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific
Measures" matters and Indians; letters of James Pemberton deal almost exclusively
with business matters; and letters of John Pemberton primarily discuss Friends,
their activities and business matters.
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Records (1745-1983)
- 42 linear ft. Records of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian
Committee include minutes, financial papers, account books, correspondence, addresses,
speeches, reports, journals, scrapbooks, legal, land and legislative related papers,
maps, lists, transcripts, published items, photographs, film, video and other
papers. Includes five volumes of papers, 1745-1792, of "The Friendly Association
for Regaining and Preserving Peace with the Indians by Pacific Measures."
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - Meeting for Sufferings and Representative
Meeting Records (1719-1954)
- 23 linear ft. Representative Meeting traces its origins to the
Meeting for Sufferings, a body appointed by PYM in 1756 to raise and administer
relief to Friends. As the Yearly Meeting grew larger in size, the responsibilities
of the Meeting for Sufferings widened to embrace all general operations of the
Yearly Meeting, including the supervision and dissemination of religious publications;
maintenance of statistical information on meetings and membership; and administration
of bequests from Friends and trust funds from discontinued meetings.
R
- Jonathan Richards Papers (1870-1881)
- Ms. Coll. 964 (1 box). Letters, invoices, vouchers, account book
and other financial records related to his work as Agent at Wichita, Kansas from
1870-1876. Material deals primarily with Richards's attempts to settle government
claims against him regarding a disputed balance of over $23,000.
- Fred Rodell Papers, (1838-1980)
- Ms. Coll. 827 (13 boxes). Rodell, for 41 years, was professor
of law at Yale University. Yale Law School in its philosophy was diametrically
opposed to the philosophy propounded by Harvard Law School. This "Yale"
modus vivendi was represented on the Supreme Court by Justices William O. Douglas
and Hugo Black, while the "Harvard" doctrine was upheld by Justices
Felix Frankfurter and Robert Jackson. Rodell was allied with the Yale contingent
as his correspondence and writings reveal. His correspondence is mainly with Supreme
Court Justices and primarily with William Douglas.
S
- Scattergood Family Papers (1681-1909)
- Ms. Coll. 1100 (9 v., 1 box). Chiefly correspondence of Thomas
Scattergood (1748-1814) with family and friends discussing spiritual matters and
his travels in Great Britain, New England, North and South Carolina, Virginia,
etc. Correspondents include Jonathan Binns, Josiah Bunting, John Cox, William
Dillwyn, Henry Drinker, William Forster, Susanna Horne, Rebecca Jones, John Pemberton,
Joseph Scattergood, Rebecca Scattergood, Rachel Smith, and others.
- Isaac Sharpless Papers (1876-1987)
- Ms. Coll. 906 (ca. 300 items, 5 boxes). Letters (1894-1918) written
by Sharpless, chiefly addressed to Henry Tatnall Brown (ca. 1871-1938), discuss
Sharpless' theological views, various writing projects, and the Friends Historical
Society. Collection includes letterbook (1884-1900) kept by Sharpless while Dean
of faculty and President of the College and letters addressed to Sharpless on
such topics as the occasion of his inauguration (1887), his resignation in 1917
(1916-1917), and threatened resignations (1892, 1915). Collection also contains
various other articles and addresses by Sharpless on topics relating to education
and Friends' history as well as photographs of Sharpless and the Sharpless family.
- Stokes - Evans - Cope Family Papers (1713-1981)
- Ms. Coll. 1169 (8 boxes, 2 packages). Correspondence, diaries,
legal and business papers, artifacts, printed volumes, scrapbook, account books,
marriage certificates, deeds, photographs and photo-album, computer disks, typed
transcripts and various misc. papers. Papers are chiefly of the related Quaker
families of Stokes, Evans, Cope and Wistar of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
- Meeting for Sufferings and Representative
Meeting
- see Philadelphia Yearly Meeting - Meeting for Sufferings and
Representative Meeting Records (1719-1954)
T
- Taylor Family Papers (1846-1929)
- Ms. Coll. 1179 (3 boxes). Correspondence, papers and photographs,
records. Includes letters of Elihu Burritt (1810-1879) and others on Quakers and
African Americans and slavery; also papers of Francis R. Taylor (1884-1947) on
Quakers and African Americans and peace; and George Washington Taylor (1803-1891)
papers and Free Produce Association records relating to Taylor's work for free
produce labor.
- Thompson Family Papers (1751-1876)
- Ms. Coll. 855 (1 box). Correspondence, genealogy, silhouette,
printed material, certificate, testimony, acconts. Includes letters from Jonah
Thompson (1756-1758) and son John Thompson to family in England (1773-1805). Letters
(1840-1874) of John's grandson, John James Thompson, to cousin John Thompson (Hitchin,
England) discuss family news, national and political questions, slavery, business
and financial conditions.
W
- Nicholas Waln Family Papers,1783-1895 (bulk
1783-1819)
- Ms. Coll. 966 (1 box). Correspondence, portraits, photographs,
poetry, genealogy and misc. papers related to Nicholas Waln and the Waln family.
Bulk of the material consists of correspondence related to Nicholas Waln's journeys
as a Quaker minister in England and Ireland. Topics discussed include news of
family, Friends activities, travel, friendship, spiritual matters, ministry, slave
conditions in the West Indies (1784 letter from William B. Clark). Chart of Waln
family genealogy.
- John Wilbur Papers (1831-1873)
- Ms. Coll. 856 (1 box). Primarily letters of John Wilbur giving
in great detail his position relative to the views of Joseph John Gurney and the
separation of New England Yearly Meeting. His trip to Great Britain in 1853-54
is documented as well.
- Winston-Clark Family Papers (1814-1900)
- Approximately 500 letters (also a few clippings, poems and other
items) of the related Clark and Winston families of Virginia and Indiana. Letters
discuss family and friends, the small schools that many members of these families
began in the mid-west, as well as comments on politics, slavery, religion, education,
etc..
- L. Hollingsworth Wood Papers (1903-1953)
- Ms. Coll. 1175 (81 boxes). Primarily correspondence related to
Wood's activities in areas of peace, civil rights, black and Quaker education.
Wood was founding member of American Civil Liberties Union, American Friends Service
Committee and National Urban League. He was president of the Urban League for
26 years; elected in 1917 to Fisk University Board of Trustees; member of Haverford
College Board of Managers. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Roger N. Baldwin,
W. E. B. DuBois, Rufus M. Jones, Thomas Elsa Jones, Oswald Garrison Villard, Booker
T. Washington and many others.
- Morris Wistar Wood Collection (1716-1979)
- Ms. Coll. 1140 (36 boxes). Correspondence, diaries, photographs,
genealogy, deeds, financial, legal and business papers, clippings, maps, facsimiles
and other misc. papers. Primarily correspondence of the related Quaker families
of Collins, Cresson, Emlen, Morris, Wistar and Wood with friends and family.
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