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Start Over Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Jones, Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew), 1863-1948 Year 1947

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Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 (inclusive)

Extent:
30 linear ft. (60 boxes, 15,000 items)
Abstract:
Papers of Quaker Biblical scholar Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974), a founder of the American Friends Service Committee and Nobel Prize winner on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee. Cadbury taught at Haverford (1910-1919 and 1954-1963) and Bryn Mawr Colleges as well as Harvard Divinity School as Hollis Professor of Divinity.

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George Fox's 'Book of Miracles', 1881-1974 (inclusive) 1948-1974 (bulk)

Extent:
0.1 linear ft. (1 item)
Abstract:
This collection contains a 1948 copy of George Fox's 'Book of Miracles' as well as various corresponding items. This includes a letter from Douglas G. Lister to Henry J. Cadbury, multiple letters from Janet F. Rice of the Cambridge University Press Subsidiary Rights Department confirming that Cadbury will recieve two complimentary copies of the reprinted book once published in 1973, a letter directly from Octagon Books's Editor-In-Chief Henry G. Schlanger, and many more materials related to Henry J. Cadbury and/or George Fox. This collection also contains a revised list of Haverford Meeting attendees and members in 1898 by Mary Rhoads Garrett, and an 1881 copy of "How To Enter Into Rest."

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Jones-Cadbury Family papers, ca. 1770-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:
72 linear ft. (141 boxes and 8 packages, 6 tubes)
Abstract:
The Quaker families of Jones and Cadbury were interrelated with many other Quaker families in the United States and England. This collection provides a rich source of genealogical and historical information, not only on the Jones and Cadbury families, and especially Mary Hoxie Jones (1904-2003) and Emma Cadbury Jr. (1875-1965), but also, significantly, on the Warder family, as well as the Bartram, Brown, Carter, Foulke, Kaighn, Lowry, Mennell, Pearsall, Shinn, and Shipley families.

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