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Thomas P. Cope Family papers
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Thomas Pim Cope (1768-1854), a Quaker merchant, founder of Cope family shipping business, and member of the Philadelphia City Council and Pennsylvania legislature, married Mary Drinker (1766-1825) in 1792. Their son Henry Cope (1793-1865) married Rachel Reeve (1794-1863) in 1818. Henry and Rachel's son Thomas Pim Cope (1823-1900) married Elizabeth Waln Stokes (1823-1902) in 1849.
Letters, legal, business and financial, accounts, minutes, diary, portraits, and other papers chiefly related to the Cope family of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Papers of Thomas Pim Cope (1768-1854) relate to business and civic interests in Philadelphia (Poor Laws, public schools, public water, first bridge over the Schuylkill, etc.); papers (1816-1823) related to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committee aiding the German Separatists led by Joseph M. Bimeler (Baumler); letters and documents related to legal aspects of the Separation of 1827-1828 within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Letters (1799-1847) to Thomas Pim Cope from Friends and others discuss slavery and immigration of free Black people to Haiti, the War of 1812, business conditions, etc.
Papers of Alfred Cope (1806-1875) include minutes and accounts related to the disbursement of money to the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin (1849).
Papers of Philip C. Garrett (1834-1905) discuss the formation of Haverford College Alumni Association (1857), and also include his diary while at Haverford College (1851).
Letters (1854-1857) of Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) discuss his work assisting fleeing formerly enslaved people.
Letters to Thomas Pim Cope while he was in Europe (1858) related to ship "Tuscarora," also letters from family and friends while he was on a religious journey in Great Britain and France with Samuel Morris in 1890.
Seven letters (1890-1891) of Alban Cope while a patient at New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica (now the Utica Psychiatric Hospital) and Hartford Retreat (now the Institute of Living); letters (1890) of Elizabeth W. Cope to her husband Thomas Pim Cope discuss family matters, including son Alban.
Letter (1864) of J.M. M'Kim discusses freedmen; letters of William Drinker Cope discuss land and business matters.
Other correspondents in the collection include Abigail Barker, Moses Brown, Francis R. Cope, Henry Cope, John S. Cope, Margaret Cope, Walter Cope, Thomas Eddy, James Milnor, Inazo Nitobe, and others.
Materials in the collection are arranged by topic.
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- Philadelphia (Pa.). City Council
- Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Library
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- Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
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Collection Inventory
Papers related to Cope's business and civic interests (Poor Laws, public schools, Philadelphia City Council, constituent letters).
Physical Description5 folders
(30 items: accounts, letters, resolutions, memorials, petitions, etc.) includes:
signed petitions (ca. 1805) against increase in taxes for low-income people and petitions for a change in the system of how those with low incomes are provided for [17 documents]
(7 items: letter, essay, petitions, etc.) includes:
signed petition of the "Minister, Trustees, Elders and Deacons of the German Reformed Congregation in & near Philada." [document, undated but ca. 1808?]
signed petition (1796) of the "Evangelical German Lutheran Synod, held at Yorktown, ..." [document]
letter, Phila., 1 mo. 23, 1808 to Charles W. Hare, signed by Samuel Pemberton, Nicholas Waln, Henry Drinker, Thomas Morris, Jonathan Evans and Thomas Wistar (re attempt to pass a bill for the establishment of schools throughout the state)
"Report of the joint-committee of the Select and Common Councils, on the city debts and expenditures, and on the city credits and resources." 1800-1801. [2 D, printed]
(35 items: accounts, letters, deed, resolutions, ordinances, etc.) topics include:
"committee for watering the city"; bridge over the Schuylkill; rental property of the city corporation; fire relief for Dock Street (May 9, 1806); health laws
(3 items)
Meredith, William Phila., Feb. 10, 1808. (relating to City Corporation business) [letter]
Ralston, Robert Phila., Mar. 18, 1808. (respecting distressed seamen, etc.) [letter]
Wharton, Robert (Mayor) Phila., Feb. 29, 1808. (wants increased penalties against vice and immorality) [letter]
(2 items)
Executors' account (ca. 1855) of estate of Thomas Pim Cope, marked "Copy" [document]
1813 document remitting fines resulting from importation of goods, signed by secretary of Treasury. [document]
Papers (1816-1823) related to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting committee aiding the German Separatists led by Joseph M. Bimeler (Baumler); letters and documents related to legal aspects of the Separation of 1827-1828 within Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.
Letters (1799-1847) to Thomas Pim Cope from Friends and others discuss slavery and immigration of free Black people to Haiti, the War of 1812, business conditions, etc.
Physical Description5 folders
(ca. 56 items: letters, receipts, bills, subscription lists, broadside, Meeting related papers and papers of Friends committee assisting the Germans to settle here, find land, etc.)
includes letters from the following:
Allen, William, copy of a letter to Stephen Grellet, 3 mo. 27, 1817
Banzhaf, Gottfried, letter in German, also translated copy, dated Oct. 5, 1816
Banzhaff, John G[ottfried], translation of letter dated Pittsburgh, 10 mo. 11, 1817, to "Friend"
Cooper, Benjamin B., letter, Cooper's Ferry, Aug. 23, 1817 to Dr. Parrish (re land)
Fisher, Samuel R., letter, Phila. 8 mo. 26, 1817. (re land)
Green, William, copy of letter dated Phila. Aug. 29, 1817 to Samuel R. Fisher (re land)
Grellet, Stephen, letter, New York, 8 mo. 7, 1817, to Thomas Stewardson
Mullowny, J., letter, Phila., Aug. 21, 1817 to J. Warder
Popplein, Nicholas and John Hewes, letter, Baltimore, 10 mo. 17, 1817 to John Cook
Stewardson, Thomas and Caleb Cresson, copies of 2 letters, Phila. 8 mo. 23 and 10 mo. 17, 1817 to William Allen
Warder, John, letter, 8 mo. 26, 1817, to "Friends" (re land)
Also booklet "Names and occupations of the German Separatists made out by Michael Baumler, 10th mo. 1817" [lists families, ages, occupations]
(ca. 24 items: letters, receipts, bills, accounts, map, papers of the Friends committee assisting the Germans to settle here, find land, etc.) includes letters from the following:
Baeumler, I.N, letter, Kendal, 11 mo. 23, 1817 to Jacob Meyer [also translation of same]
Banzhaf, et al., letter [in German], Zoar, 6 mo. 1, 1818 to John Cook and Friends in Phila. [also translation of same]
Baumler, Jos. Mich., copy of letter to John Cooke and the Committee, dated Zoar, 3 mo. 26, 1818
Cope, Thomas P., copy of letter to Thomas Rotch dated Phila., 6 mo. 4, 1818
Lawrence, R.R. and Son, letter, dated New York, 11 mo. 11, 1817 to Caleb Cresson and copy of CC's reply 11 mo. 12, 1817
Pfersich, Frederik C., letter, Calcuta, Stark Co. Ohio, 3 mo. 9, 1818 to Emmor Matlack
Rienhart, Christoph., copy of letter dated Kendal, Stark Co., 1 mo. 18, 1818 to Gotfied Lindz
Rotch, Thomas, letter, Kendal, Stark Co. Ohio, 3 mo. 8, 1818 to Thomas P. Cope letter, Kendal, Stark Co. Ohio, 6 mo. 29, 1818 to Thomas P. Cope letter, Kendal, Stark Co. Ohio, 8 mo. 4, 1818 to Thomas P. Cope
Rotch, Thomas and George Brantingham, letter, Kendal, Stark Co., Ohio, 1 mo. 17, 1818 to Samuel Bettle and Thomas P. Cope
Also map, ca. 1820? [broadside of land in Pa. for sale]
(25 items, 1828-1830: letter, manuscript copies of letters, documents, etc.), includes:
letters (letters and copies, ca. 20) re legal aspects of the Separation as regards property [letters and manuscript copies of letters are from Horace Binney, Thomas P. Cope, C.F. Ingersoll, Eli K. Price, Thomas Kittera, John Wurts]
"Opinion - on the property and rights of Friends - 3 mo. 19, 1828" manuscript copy]
subscription list, "We agree to pay the sum of thirty dollars each towards creating a fund for paying the attornies [sic] employed in defending the property and rights of Friends. Philada. 1 mo. 4, 1828" [document, signed by 20 Friends]
broadsides, Jury lists (1829-1830) [3 documents]
7 items (re to real estate), includes: "Brief of title. Friends Lot Schuyll. 4th & Mulberry Sts." (1828)
(ca. 43 items) letters are from:
[?] [Julius? Zulius?] [a German visiting Phila.?] letter, Wed. morning (no date) (thank you letter)
Adams, John, letter, Richmond Hill, Dec. 19, 1815 (re enslaved people)
Allen, Richard, (printed circular) Dublin, 3/29 1847 (re slavery)
Armstrong, Andrew, letter, Port au Prince, May 26, 1824 (re immigration of free Black people to Haiti)
Baker, H., 2 letters, Richmond, Feb. 27 and March 18, 1813 (re militia activity to put down black uprising?)
Barker, Peter, letter, New York, 7 mo. 30, 1828 (re job as secretary)
Beverly, Robert, letter, Acrolophos, April, 13, 1812 to Mr. Milner, Washington (re TPC's wish to purchase the freedom of Edmund, a person held in bondage by Robert Beverly)
Boorman, J, 2 letters, New York, Jan. 4 and Feb. 21, 1840 (re Bank of Kentucky)
Boorman, Johnston and Co., 4 letters, New York, July 31, 1839-Jan. 2, 1840 (re Bank of Kentucky)
Chauncey, Charles, letter, July 12, 1824
Cheves, Langdon, letter, Newport, R.I., July 7, 1823
Clarke, James, and Co., letter, Manchester, Va., Feb. 14, 1813 (re blockade of port)
Clarkson, N. with Peter Augustus Say, J. Griscom, George Newbold, Theodore Dwight, letter, New York, July 10, 1824 to Robert Walsh, Thos. P. Cope, Robt. Vaux, Thos. Evans, Chas. Chauncy and Saml. R. Wood (re immigration of free Blacks to Haiti)
Craft, Gersham letter, Trenton, 1 mo. 4, 1804 (re enslaved people case)
Davis and Cope's, letter, Baltimore, 7 mo. 16, 1799 (re business)
Evans, Thomas, letter, Phila., 7 mo. 10, 1824 (re immigration of free Blacks to Haiti)
Gibson, J.H., Letter, Port au Prince, Haiti, Feb. 7, 1825 (re conditions there)
Griscom, John, Letter, Burlington, 1 mo. 14, 1805 (re slavery committee's perceived lack of action)
Gurney, J.J., Letter, Earlham, 4 mo. 5, 1841 (re letter of introduction for his relative, Robert Barclay)
Harvey, Jacob, 3 letters, New York, 1831-1846 (re business climate in N.Y. City after fire in 1836; distress in Ireland, 1846)
Ingham, L.D., Letter, Washington, Feb. 23, 1827
Jackson, Samuel, Letter, Aug. 29, 1823 (re death of John Thomas)
Kittera, Thomas, Letter. Washington, Jan. 20, 1827 (re legislation)
Milnor, James, 6 letters, Washington, March-June, 1812 (re foreign affairs, political situation, legislation, manumission of Edmund)
Pim, Jonathan, Letter, Dublin [Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends], 8 mo. 3, 1847 (re thanks for grain sent to them) [addressed to Thomas Pim Cope]
Stabler, M.C., Letter, Baltimore, March 30, 1834 [from "niece" to "uncle"] (re death of G.T. Hopkins)
Tompkins and Murray, Letter, Richmond, May 11, 1817
Vethake, Henry, Letter, Phila., May 20, 1841 (re speaking engagement)
Walsh, Robert, Jr., Letter, July 13, 1824 (re Haiti)
West, Francis and John, 1795 bill and receipt for wine
Wurts, John, Letter, Washington, Feb. 19, 1827 (re woolen duties)
9 folders
(8 items: letters) includes:
[6 letters] Burlington, 1836, to "cousin" Alfred Cope
[letter] Burlington, 1 mo. 10, 1840, to "cousin" Thomas P. Cope
[letter] [signed "M.C." Mary Cope?], 4 mo. 2, 1824, to Abigail Barker
"Alfred Cope. Accounts of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting for the years 1846-50" [series of handwritten notebooks sewn together]
(2 items):
"Apportionment of $40,000 among the mixed Menominee, 1849," 6 mo. 20. - 7 mo. 10, 1849. [manuscript, 37 pp.]
"Minutes of the Menominee Council 1849 - Thos. Wistar Jr. Commissioner" [notebook, in hand of Alfred Cope]
(ca. 34 items) letters are from:
Bassett, E.D., 2 letters, Phila. 6 mo. 30 and 7 mo. 2, 1863 (re request for money for Black refugees)
Bates, Fleming, Letter, Hanover County [Va.], 4 mo. 9, 1836 (re business)
Biddle, William, Letter, [Mine?] Hill Office, 4 mo. 18, 1863 (re "Colored Institute")
Braithwaite, Anna, Letter, Kendal, 3 mo. 7, 1836 (re news of family and Friends, religious thoughts)
Braithwaite, Isaac, Letter, Kendal, 4 mo. 6, 1836 (re note enclosed with Kendal marble sample)
Cope, Samuel, "Substance of a testimony delivered at the close of the Yearly Meeting in Philadelphia 1850 by Samuel Cope of New West Chester" [with note on back "A. Fisher, 9/58 (S. Cope's declaratn.")
Cope, Thomas Pim, Letter?, 1 mo. 18, 1862, containing notes on stock and certificates to "Uncle"
Davis, Isaac R., Letter? [or manuscript copy?], Phila. Nov. 5, 1851, sent to Millard Fillmore (re letter of introduction for Alfred Cope, Thomas Wistar, Jr., regarding the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin)
Evans, Thomas, Letter, 12 mo. 19, 1860 (re financial help for N.C. YM) [w/ printed report on boarding school debt]. Letter, 2 mo. 1863 (re Westtown School)
Fisher, Henry, Letter, Liverpool, 2 mo. 18, 1829 (re parcel to be sent Stephen Grellet)
Fox, Alfred, 3 letters, Falmouth, 1836 (re plant specimens)
Hayden, Dr. F.V., Letter, Washington, D.C. [Smithsonian], Oct. 14, 1862 (re recommendation of a Black man [Solomon G. Brown?] for AC's "Institute")
Hodgson, Thomas, 3 letters, Liverpool, 1835-1836 (re textbooks, news of Friends [John Wilkinson])
Jones, Charles, Bill for schooling Edward [Cope] from Friends Select School, 1 mo. 1853
Kirkbride, Thomas S., Letter, Phila., Pa. Hospital for the Insane, 2 mo. 9, 1858 (re Joe Green)
Lawrie, George G., Letter [in French], New Orleans, Feb. 18, 1837
McCarthy, Mary B., Letter, Ursuline Convent, Charlestown, Jan. 25, 1836 (re C.M.C. Molony, live oak acorns)
Maris, S.N., Letter, Funchal, Jan. 8, 1836 (re news of friends, botany)
Molony, C.M.C., Letter, Charlestown, S.C., March 5, 1836 (re live oaks)
Seeds, Thomas M., bill for hat, Phila. 10 mo. 5, 1860
Sibley, John Langdon, 2 letters, Harvard College Library, Dec. 1848 and March 1850 (re books)
Smith, Gideon G., Letter, Chester, 3 mo. 28, 1836 (re his school)
Sturge, Joseph, printed circular, New York, 7 mo. 17, 1841 (re slavery)
Tyson, E.C., Letter, Pittsburgh, July 3, 1836 (re news of family, travel)
Waln, Edward, Letter, "No. 2 York Building" 3 mo. 1, 1853 (re papers of Robert Morris)
Wilson, Edward, Letter, Liverpool, 2 mo. 3, 1836 (re business)
Yarnall, Charles, Letter, 11 mo. 18, 1840 (re AC chosen a member of Haverford School Association)
(18 items: letters, accounts, memorandum) includes:
7 accounts, (AC in account with Cope Brothers, 1855-1864)
10 letters of AC, 1836-1840
6 letters, Phila. [and while traveling] to "father" Thomas P. Cope (re travel, news of family and Friends)
Letter, Providence, 6 mo. 14, 1839 to "brother" Henry Cope (re travel, news of Friends)
3 letters, Phila., 1836-1838, to "cousin" Abigail Barker (re news of family and Friends)
memorandum of list of laws re ? written on back of letters pasted together
(3 items) 2 letters, Phila., 6 mo. 13, 9 mo. 8, 1827, to John Sheppard (re events relative to the Separation of 1827-1828), envelope
(3 items) 3 letters, New York, 1823-1824, to Thomas P. Cope (re immigration of free Black people to Haiti and N.Y. Yearly Meeting)
(23 items: letters, AD, diary) includes:
Garrett. Philip C., AD, "Address delivered before the Haverford Euethean Association by Philip C. Garrett. 12 mo. 1857"
Wistar, Thomas, 3 letters, Haverford College, 1857, to PCG (re Euethean Association)
The following items found clipped together:
[ ], O.O., [Brig. Genl. USA]. letter, Nov. 11, 1871
Bines, Samuel M., Letter, Phila. 11 mo. 10, 1855 (re election to "The Apprentice's Library Co.")
Hartshorne, Henry, 6 letters, Phila. (n.d. and 1857) (re logistics of a meeting [of Haverford alumni to organize an alumni assoc.])
Hopkins, Lewis Neill, Letter, Baltimore, March 18, 1857 (re alumni assoc., memories of Haverford)
Hubbard, John R., Letter, New Garden, 11 mo. 15, 1856 (re invite to meeting of Haverford alumni)
Scull, David, Letter, Phila., 8 mo. 21, 1857 (re PCG's election to executive committee of Haverford alumni assoc.)
Serrill, I.S, Letter, [Phila.] Oct. 29, 1857 (re manuscript of his address for Haverford College)
Sharpless, H., Letter, 11 mo. 19, 1857 (re treasury [of Haverford alumni assoc.?])
Smith, Robert P., Letter, Germantown, 11 mo. 18, 1856 (re alumni meeting)
Stokes, N. Newlin, Letter, Moorestown, 6 mo. 16, 1861 (re a wedding)
Wood, Richard Letter, Phila. 12 mo. 1, 1854 (re business)
Also "Constitution of Penn Literary Society." [2 items] and Diary for 1851 [while at Haverford School, volume has "Stewart's Register 1851" on cover]
Letters to Thomas Pim Cope while he was in Europe (1858) related to ship "Tuscarora," also letters from family and friends while he was on a religious journey in Great Britain and France with Samuel Morris in 1890.
Seven letters (1890-1891) of Alban Cope while a patient at New York State Lunatic Asylum (Utica, now the Utica Psychiatric Hospital) and Hartford Retreat; letters (1890) of Elizabeth W. Cope to her husband Thomas Pim Cope discuss family matters, including son Alban.
Physical Description7 folders
(32 items: letters) letters are from:
Brown, G.A., [per Brown Shipley Co.]. Letter, Liverpool, July 17, 1858
Brown Shipley Co., 5 letters, Liverpool, April 6 - July 22, 1858 (re business)
Cope, Alfred, 2 letters, England, June 15 and July 19, 1858
Cope, Elizabeth Waln 8 letters, Phila. and Awbury, 3 mo. 7 - 6 mo. 27, 1858, to her husband Thomas Pim Cope while he was in Europe [4 mo. 30 letter encloses notes from sister Elly and cousin Clemmy] [also see next folder]
Cope, Francis R. [Reeve], 3 letters (enclosed with letters of EWC), Phila., 4 mo. 19 - 6 mo. 28, 1858 [to his brother, Thomas Pim Cope] [also see next folder]
Dunlevey, R.M. [Capt. of Tuscarora (ship)], 4 letters, Liverpool, April 12 - July 1, 1858
Gregory Co., Letter and telegram, London, May 27 and June 12, 1858
Hamilton, F.A., Letter (enclosed with letter of Brown Shipley Co.), Liverpool, July 22, 1858
Julius, Theodore, Letter, Liverpool, July 7, 1858
Stokes, F. [Francis], 5 letters, London, June 14 - July 20, 1858
Also "'The Cope Packet' a collection of genealogical charts compiled by Katharine Cope Evans [Lisker] February 1980"
Cope, Alban, 7 letters, Utica (1890) and Hartford (1891) to his mother and father [note: Alban apparently was a patient at the New York State Lunatic Asylum (now the Utica Psychiatric Hospital) and was later at Hartford [Retreat?]]
Cope, E.S., Letter, Woodbourne, July 23, 1890 to "uncle" Thomas Cope from "niece"
Cope, F.R. [Francis Reeve], Letter, Phila., 3 mo. 28, 1890 to his "brother," Thomas Pim Cope (Additional Francis R. Cope papers in Box E, folder 5)
Cope, John S., 4 letters, [Europe], 1891, to family [travel letters]
Cope, Margaret, 8 letters, Awbury, 1890, to "father" Thomas P. Cope [news of family, including visit to Alban]
Cope, Walter, 6 letters, Phila. and Europe, 1890-1891, to "father" Thomas P. Cope and "mother" Elizabeth W. Cope [travel letters and news of a visit to Alban at Hartford]
Stokes, H.N. [Hetty Newlin], Letter, Birchcliffe, 8 mo. 25, 1890 to "brother" [brother-in-law] Thomas Pim Cope
37 letters, Awbury (and other locations), 3 mo. 28 - 8 mo. 27, 1890, to her husband, Thomas Pim Cope [while he was in Great Britain on a religious journey] [note: letters tell of family and friends, including Alban's situation, treatment and visits to his family]
Letters date chiefly from his travel with Samuel Morris in Great Britain and France on a religious journey in 1890, most are thank you letters for Quaker books that he had sent from America to various persons and express friendship to Cope and Morris on their travels. (ca. 47 items: letters) letters are from:
Adair, William
Alexander, Janie
Atwood, Charles E. [Dr.]. letter, Utica, Aug. 27, 1891 (re Alban Cope's removal to [Hartford] "Retreat")
Allen, Elizabeth. 2 ALS, 3216 N. 16th St., 4 mo. 14 and 5 mo. 6, 1891 (re Society of Friends matter)
Backhouse, Katharine
Backhouse, Mary A.
Baker, Gulielma
Barker, Bessie
Barlow, John H.
Barritt, Katie
Beck, Mary E.. letter, Hastings, 6 mo. 25, 1891 (re death of niece)
Bell, Alice
Bell, Samuel
Bell, Anna J.
Bellows, John
Berman, W.
Bewley, A. Kathleen
Bewley, Ann E.
Bewley, Margaret H. letter, Co. Wicklow, 1 mo. 25, 1891 (re death of daughter)
Bewley, Samuel
Bewley, Sophia
Brede, Ch. F.. letter, Germantown, 5 mo. 10, 1890 (re his plans for travel, Society of Friends history)
Briston, Anne
Brown, Alfred William
Brown, David J.. 5 letter, Phila., 6 mo. 28-8 mo. 15, 1890 (re names and addresses, books to be sent)
Brown, Eliza (and others)
Brown, Margaret
Brown, Mercy E.
Brown, Shipley & Co. 2 letters, London, Aug. 19, 1890 and Aug. 14, 1891 (re business)
Brun, Christine
Bridge, Frances Anne
Cadbury, Mary
Castle, H.G.
Clark, Frances J.
Clarke, Sophia S.
Clarke, Gertrude E.
Clibborn, Barclay
Comlee, B.B. Benjamin
(ca. 45 items; letters) letters are from:
Daeg [?], S.D.
Davis, Emma
Davis, Francis H.
Davis, Margaret G., letter, Ennisworthy, 6 mo. 10, 1890 (re thanks for books, death of her father)
Davy, L.B.
Dixon, R.
Driver, George
Edmundson, Mary
Ferris, Caroline
Fisher, Lylla M.
Fisher, Thomas W.
Fox, Anna F.
Fox, Harriette
Fox, Robert
Foxwell, Emily
Freelove, Eleanor
Freelove, Hayden
Fry, Edith I.
Fry, Joseph Storrs
Gayner, Isabel
Gibbins, Benjamin
Gibbins, Emma J.
Gibbins, Frederick I.
Gillespie, Edward. 2 letters, Cambuslang(?), near Glasgow, Nov. 10, 1890 and Feb. 13, 1891 (re fundraising for library, work with coal miners and steelworkers)
Grace, Wilfrid
Gregory, Alfred
Grippes, Annie []
Grubb, C.
Grubb, Eliza H.
Grubb, J. Ernest
Gundersen, George
Hamoh[?], Thomas
Hall, Josiah
Hammorton, Charles
Higham, S.
Hobson, William
Hohudens [?], S.N.
Horne, Edith M.
(ca. 29 items: letters) letters are from:
Jesper, L.B.
Jesper, Samuel
Kelsall, Thomas and Nancy
King, Phebe A.
Kitching, Elizabeth
Lewis, Lilly
Lloyd, Gertrude E.
Lowe, David
Marriage, Wilson
Morris, Emma W.
Morris, Louisa W.
Morris, Samuel. letter, Phila., 9 mo. 9, 1891 (re memories of their trip, religious reflections)
Mounsey, Lucy E.
Newhall, Abby
Newson, Arthur
Nicholson, Emma
Nicholson, Mary Emily
Nitobe, Inazo. letter, Sapporo, Japan, 3 mo. 22, 1891 (re translation of book of Geo. Fox's life and writings, Wm. Penn's life and writings)
Paradon, Josias. 3 letters, Nimes, 1890-1891 (re news of family and friends in France)
Paterson, Mary M.. 2 letters, Glasgow, July 27 and Aug. 3, 1890 (re death of uncle Henry)
Perry, S. Constance
Pim, John Ernest
Pim, Jonathan. Photograph of letter to Thomas Pim Cope, 3 of 8th mo. 1847. [Photograph taken by Ted Hetzel]
Priestman, Mary Anne
(ca. 40 items: letters) letters are from:
Ransome, Edwin B. (accompanying letter of Robson, Walter)
Rhoads, Joseph
Richardson, Eliza F.
Richardson, Harriet
Richardson, James M.
Robinson, Ellen
Sedgwick, Mary E.
Sewell, J.S.
Simpson, S.A.
Sims, C. Mary
Sims, Ivie
Smith, S. Newlin
Southall, John S.
Squire, E.L.
Stearns, H.U.. letter, Hartford Retreat for the Insane, March 6, 1891 (re permission for Alban to have his gun there [for shooting birds])
Stokes, Lucy R.
Stokes, Thomas P.C.
Sturge, Hannah J.
Tangye, Martha
Taylor, Frederick
Thompson, Rosalie
Tyson, Mary Fell
Waller, Alfred Rayney
Wallis, Richenda
Wallis, W. Clarkson
Waring, Mary E.
Webb, Mary E.. letter, Germantown, 10 mo. 31, 1890 (re situation within Society of Friends)
Westtown scholars
Wilkie, William
Williams, Margaret A.
Williams, Sarah
Wilson, Claude
Wilson, Florence J.
Wood, Helen E.
Wood, Lydia C.. letter, School Lane, 5 mo. 29, 1890 (re use of Committee room denied them for Meeting of young Friends)
Wright, William
Letter (1864) of J.M. M'Kim discusses freedmen; letters of William Drinker Cope discuss land and business matters.
Other correspondents in collection include Abigail Barker, Moses Brown, Francis R. Cope, Henry Cope, John S. Cope, Margaret Cope, Walter Cope, Thomas Eddy, James Milnor, Inazo Nitobe and others.
Physical Description11+ folders
Letters are from:
Brown, Amos [letter] Baltimore, May 25, 1814
Brown, Moses [22 letters] Salem and Boston, 1814-1815
Brown, William [letter] New York, 5 mo. 25, 1814
7 items: bills, receipts
(2 items)
"The lost ship 'Tuscarora'" [typed (copy of newspaper article?), 3 pp., relates the sinking of the ship belonging to the Cope Brothers, with loss of 14 crew and Capt. Dunlevy]
"The burning of the packet ship 'Thomas P. Cope'" [typed (copy of article written for the Fairfield Juvenile Literary Society, by "A.C." winter of 1852-1853), 8 pp.]
(31 items: accounts, bills, receipts, ALS) Includes:
Lawrie, George G., Letter, Washington, Feb. 28, 1855 (re business)
Also papers of Cope Brothers, 1873-1883.
(74 items: letters [mostly business letters], bills, receipts, printed circular) Includes:
McKim, J.M. letter, [Washington], Pa. Freedmen's Relief Association, Oct. 30, 1864, to "Miss Wigham" [w/ notation that this letter was published in pamphlet form]
Also correspondence, 1860, concerning fitting up of Alaska expedition.
(ca. 56 items) includes:
Copy of letter from a committee of N. England YM to S. Kingston (R.I.) MM re John Wilbur, 4 mo. 23, 1842.
letter re Irish relief, 2 mo. 22, 1847. (see also Thos. Pim Cope)
(3 items: letters, extract from minutes)
Joseph Bewley, 2 letters, Dublin, 3 mo. 1, and 4 mo. 1, 1847 [one letter w/ Jonathan Pim] (see also Henry Cope, letter from N.C. re Irish relief)
(26 items: letters, photograph, receipts, accounts, memorandum, maps, printed circular) includes:
Correspondence re Henry S. Drinker, 1809-1817 [letters are from Henry S. Drinker, Thomas P. Cope (copy), Samuel W[], John Cox, Samuel Emlen, Hannah Drinker]
misc. items, 1818-1853 includes: letters from J.W. Robinson, John D. Thomas, William B. Tyson, Nathan Dunn, James Boorman
photograph of Capt. Theo. Julius, of the "Tonawanda" printed "Circular of the British Emigrant Society, 1818" w/ map
map "Susquhanna [sic] County Pennsylvania"
account, memorandum "handed to Jno. Cadwallader" 1829
(ca. 179 items: letters, accounts, circular, etc.) Correspondence with father, Thomas Pim Cope and brother Henry Cope (1793-1865). Mainly business, connected with lands in Northwestern Pa. Also, thread of conflict between father and son, and problems with Wm. Drinker (T.P.C.'s agent through the years 1816-1828) 1819-1859. Also, Anti-Slavery circular of William Harned et al., 1849, New York City. For additional William Drinker Cope papers, see Cope-Evans family papers, Manuscript Collection 1170
[17 items]
[26 items]