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Extent:: 0.5 linear ft. (1 document box)
Abstract:: Primarily letters of Robert Barclay, a Quaker of the 18th and early 19th century, who established a brewery in England, on topics ranging from financial affairs and land transactions to personal matters.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3.25 linear ft. (9 boxes, 3 volumes)
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.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 1.25 linear ft. (3 boxes)
Abstract:: Letters of English Friends containing information on Quaker history as well as religious and cultural activities. The collection also includes letters relating to the activities of early Friends.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 0.1 linear ft. (1 folder)
Abstract:: This collection contains a letter on the Steere's trip to England in 1968, and a letter on the Steere's trip to various places in Asia in 1970, including Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: 6 folders
Abstract:: The collection contains the correspondence of Rebecca Mary Hannum (1889-1984) mostly related to her work with the American Friends Service Committee child feeling program in post WWI Germany, 1921-1924 and Peasant Industries, Poland. After the child feeling project was transferred to local groups in Germany, Mary Hannum became involved with the Peasant Industries program which supported women's handwork for sale in the United States and elsewhere. Her personal and business letters contain detailed descriptions of relief work in Germany, travel, and administration of the Peasant Industries. Also included are three letters presumably from her brothers sent from Camp Greenleaf Detention Camp, Tennessee, and typed carbons of reports of relief workers in Poland and Russia including a diary of Quaker relief worker Beulah Hurley.

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

Extent:: 3 linear ft. (5 boxes, 6 volumes)
Abstract:: Represents, in large measure, the Cooper and Wills families of E. Newbold Cooper and the Green, Hawkins, and Sharpless families of Margaret Hawkins.

Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]

Extent:: .1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (3 folders.))
Abstract:: Papers of the Jabez Jenkins family of Pennsylvania, 1829-1849. Includes "On board the Packet Ship George Washington Capt. Holdrege Liverpool to New York 1833: Some Recollections of England &c." 1833, manuscript Recollections of travel in England and Scotland in 1833 by Jabez Jenkins. Jenkins stopped for a relatively short time in England, on his way home to Philadelphia from Canton. Observations were largely of architecture and industry in London, Birmingham, Staffordshire, Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. His postscript reflects on the differences between Americans and the British. Also of interest is a manuscript entitled "Tea and the Chinese" detailed notes on the differences between varieties of Chinese tea and its preservation. The section of "Miscellaneous Remarks" is entered between two passages on tea, and includes observations on the government, education, class structure, and personal appearance of the Chinese. A published version of The Pocket Lavater (1829)...(see more)

Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]

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