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Henry J. Cadbury papers
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Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was a biblical scholar and Quaker historian. He was born on December 1, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Joel Cadbury Jr., and Anna Kaighn Lowry. Henry Cadbury was educated in Quaker schools, graduating in 1899 from William Penn Charter School. He attended Haverford College, where he wrote for the college newspaper, the Haverfordian, eventually working his way up to editor-in-chief during his senior year. He was also a part of the Campus Club, a club dedicated to the planting and maintenance of Haverford's grounds. He became secretary of the Classics Club, treasurer of the Tennis Club, and a member of the gymnastics team. He also earned honors in Greek and philosophy, a prize for systematic reading and mathematics, was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and became class president and class poet. Cadbury earned his master's degree from Harvard University in 1904 and his Ph.D., also from Harvard, in 1914. He taught at the University Latin School in Chicago, Westtown School, Haverford College, Harvard University, and Bryn Mawr College.
Cadbury married Lydia Brown on June 17, 1916, and the couple had four children: Elizabeth (b. 1917), Christopher Joel (b. 1921), Warder Henry (b. 1925), and Winifred (b. 1926). Cadbury was a founder and early member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC). During World War I, in addition to his work with the AFSC, Cadbury wrote letters to various press sources. Cadbury became a volunteer publicist for the AFSC, and traveled to France and Germany to provide aid to children in Europe.
He was the director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), 1928-1934 and 1944-1960. He delivered the Nobel Prize lecture in 1947, on behalf of the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council, when the organizations accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends.
In March of 1954, Cadbury retired from teaching. He moved to Pendle Hill, a Quaker retreat in Wallingford, Pennsylvania, and lectured there. The remainder of Cadbury's life was spent teaching, traveling, and supporting the American Friends Service Committee. He finished writing three books in 1972, including Narrative Papers of George Fox, the work he had started when on sabbatical in Woodbrooke almost 30 years earlier. Henry Cadbury died on October 9, 1974.
Papers consist of articles, published and unpublished; books; book reviews; contributions to books, including forewords, introductions, and chapters; bible course notes; correspondence; lectures; miscellaneous; and papers.
Principal correspondents include: Lewis Benson, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Howard Brinton, William Wistar Comfort, Elfrida Vipont Foulds, Olive Goodbody, Isabel Grubb, Muriel Hicks, Rufus M. Jones, Arnold Lloyd, Edward Milligan, Russell Mortimer, Phillips Moulton, John L. Nickalls, Geoffrey Nuttall, Norman Penney, Clarence Pickett, Isabel Ross, Charles Coleman Sellers, Rabindranath Tagore, and Gilbert White.
Printed materials have been removed from this collection and may now be found in the pamphlet and book collections. Removed also were microfilms and glass lantern slides, now in the microfilms room and photo collection respectively.
There is an in-house Henry Cadbury bibliography, which is referred to within the finding aid.
Henry Cadbury gave some of his papers to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection because they were, in his opinion, related to peace. Many of his other papers are housed at Haverford College and some are at Guilford College. The bulk of the Swarthmore holdings are manuscripts (1917-1967) for articles, and notes (1917-1963) written for talks or taken at conferences that deal with the subjects of war and religion, particularly Quakerism, civil liberties, and pacifism. There is a small amount of correspondence (1918-1974) in Series III. In Series IV, a significant amount of correspondence and reference material pertains to teacher loyalty oaths, especially in Massachusetts (1935-1936, 1953). Other subjects include conscientious objectors and war tax refusal. Cadbury's obituary, biographical news clippings, his draft card from World War I, and several printed articles written by him are also in this collection.
Printed articles, manuscripts, and notes written by Cadbury were placed together in Series I by type of document, in chronological order. The titles of these documents can be found in the checklist. Cadbury's original files were preserved and often contain correspondence, reference material, and his own writing. Most of these are in the subject file series, but some are in other series, depending on the predominant kind of material within the file. There were many printed documents from the American Friends Service Committee and from other groups for whom Swarthmore College Peace Collection maintains collections. They were moved from the Cadbury papers to these collections, with removal sheets to document the transaction. A large collection of pamphlets was similarly placed in the Peace Collection pamphlet file. Newsclippings were saved only if Cadbury's name appeared in them. Other collections of newsclippings about particular subjects were noted on removal sheets and discarded.
Articles, books, book reviews, contributions to books, including forewords, introductions, chapters, etc. are in boxes 1-18 and box 59; Bible course notes are in boxes 19-28; correspondence is in boxes 29-35 and 59-60; lectures are in boxes 36-43; miscellaneous is in boxes 45 and 59-60; and papers are in boxes 45-59.
The number of items given for a container of any type is approximate.
Henry Cadbury collected some materials which may have been used in his research. These may be found in box 54 with other miscellaneous materials.
The Henry J. Cadbury papers were donated to Special Collections, Haverford College in 1973 and 1974 by Henry J. Cadbury. Additional gifts were received in 1974-1975, 1977-1979, and 1984.
Original processing information unknown. Revised by Diana Franzusoff Peterson; date unknown. Revised by Allison Hall; completed June, 2020.
- Printed materials have been removed from this collection and may now be found in the pamphlet and book collections. Removed also were microfilms and glass lantern slides, now in the microfilms room and photo collection respectively.
- Reconsidering Quakerism and Quaker Education in Microforms Room.
- Henry Cadbury's Haverford College senior thesis, written in 1903, entitled "The Philosophy of Faith" is available in the Haverford College archives.
- "A map of Barbados for Motorists ..." to 812
- Letters of Norwegian Quakers. To 950
- "H.D. Thoreau - Quaker" / by Theron Coffin. To 950
- Diary of Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker. Typed copy of manuscript. To 975 A
- "Det Norske Kvekersamfunus historie ..." / by Anne E.M. Jansen. Typescript. To 975 A
- "John Bowne: Pioneer of Freedom" / John Cox Jr. Typed manuscript, copy. to 975 A
- Plates depicting meetinghouses: East Nottingham, Calvert Md. and Springfield Friends Meeting, Springfield, PA. To 989 B
- "Map of the English Counties and Principal Towns visited by George Fox." To 995
- "Quaker History for Non-Quakers" / by Rhicard R. Wood. Typed, 40 p. To PG4
- "Quakers in Colonial Connecticut" / by Cynthia Reak. Typed manuscript, 1962. To PG4A
- Microfilm: Portion of Swarthmore Manuscripts and "2, continued from 1." To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
- Microfilm: "The True Protestant Mercury : or Occurrences Foreign and Domestick." No. 1, Wed., April 27, 1681 - No. 38, Sept. 2, 1681 (a newspaper). To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
- Microfilm: "Giles Calvert ... An account of his publishing career, with a checklist of his imprints" / by Altha E. Terry. 1937 (M.S. Thesis). To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
- Microfilm: Italian manuscript, 1658 [of Andrea Molino?]. To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
- Microfilm: Selected papers of George Fox. To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
- Microfilm: "The Quakers Jesus or the Unswaddling of that Child ... / by William Grigge. London, 1656. To Microfilm Room, Quaker Collection
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- Diana Franzusoff Peterson
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Collection Inventory
In Microforms Room
24 p.
40 p.
11 p.
36 p.
9 p.
17 p.
ca. 150 p.
2 p.
See bibliography, 1928.
[see also 5e and 6f]
1 p.
8 p.
6 p.
3 p.
3 p.
4 p.
See Bibliography, 1937.
[re Robert Pyle
[same topic, text varies]
General Physical Description note8p.
See bibliography, 1937.
See bibliography, 1939.
See bibliography, 1940.
See bibliography, 1941.
3 p.
5 p.
See bibliography, 1942.
4 p.
See bibliography, 1942.
5 p.
3 p.
5 p.
2 p.
2 p.
See bibliography, 1944.
See bibliography, 1944.
10 p.
See bibliography, 1945.
10 p.
See bibliography, 1946.
3 p.
3 p.
2 p.
18 p.
3 p.
See bibliography, 1948.
5 p.
See bibliography, 1949.
4 p.
2 p.
1 p.
13 p.
See bibliography, 1950.
7 p.
See bibliography, 1951.
8 p.
4 p.
5 p.
3 p.
4 p.
5 p.
5 p.
4 p.
3 p.
2 p.
(2 folders)
21 p.
2 p.
3 p.
4 p.
7 p.
(2 copies)
13 p.
12 p.
See bibliography, 1964.
See bibliography, 1964.
See bibliography, 1964.
39 p.
ca. 7 p.
6 p.
8 p.
1 p.
6 p.
27 p.
See bibliography, 1966.
See bibliography, 1966.
ca. 22 p.
Book review of: Herbert G. Wood by Richenda C. Scott. 1967.
H.Ms., 1 p.; T.Ms., 2 p. Published. See bibliography, 1967
9 p.
(2 folders)
See bibliography, 1968.
12 p.
2 p.
2 p.
1 p.
1 p.
200 p.
T.Ms., 8 p.; H.Ms., 8 p.
See bibliography, 1970.
General Physical Description note(2 folders)
18 p.
34 p.
2 p.
4 p.
2 p.
4 p.
3 p.
13 p.
16 p.
* Chapters of The Narrative Papers of George Fox, 1972, are filed separately. See end of this section, p.20-21.
General Physical Description note11 p.
See bibliography, 1972.
18 p.
3 p.
2 p.
10 p.
1 p.
1 p.
See bibliography, 1974. T.Ms., 11 p.
11 p.
4 p.
6 p.
8 p.
7 p.
See bibliography, 1974.
8 p.
See bibliography, 1974.
14 p.
11 p.
11 p.
8 p.
Removed to box 1, item 1a.
2 p.
2 p.
18 p.
[viewed chronologically]
[examined philologically]
General Physical Description note32 p.
[viewed ideologically]
[viewed theologically]
2 p.
4 p.
6 p.
19 p.
7 p.
5 p.
15 p.
2 p.
3 p.
1 p.
published in 1972; see bibliography
64 p.
66 p.
32 p.
36 p.
36 p.
100 p.
82 p.
18 p.
21 p.
26 p.
36 p.
15 p.
27 p. and 60 p.
37 p.
14 p.
18 p.
[only selected letters are highlighted]
[gives a tentative outline for the book on George Fox.]
[criticism of "Examples" chapter; U.N. and slavery.]
[gives information concerning the marriage of George Fox and Margaret Fell Fox.]
[re marriage and other Friends' customs.]
[Concerning publication of Narrative Papers...]
[These course notes were made by Cadbury while teaching at Harvard University. They are not arranged in chronological order. His topics included:
[The Cadbury correspondence arranged below is not a complete listing of all the letters written by or to Henry Joel Cadbury; rather it is a selected group. The selections were made on the basis of: 1) content and/or 2) author. In cases in which there were many letters dealing with the same subject, e.g. the revision of Braithwaite's Beginnings of Quakerism to which Cadbury wrote an appendix, the first letter on that subject is listed. All letters are filed chronologically. Those written to Cadbury are integrated with those written by Cadbury, rather than, for the latter case, alphabetically by recipient.]
[re New Testament studies.]
[notes by Cadbury re conservatism of Jesus on verso of letter]
[statement to be disseminated re Friends and alternative service during war]
[re Lusitania medal.]
[re Blue River Monthly Meeting, Clear Creek Meeting and Honey Creek Meeting]
[re Francis M. van Helmont]
[concerns letters of early Friends; ms. material at Friends House, including a contents list of George Fox's library]
[re Anthony Benezet attribution for "Notes on a Slave Trade"]
[re Hebrew and Greek names]
[re Peter Collinson and Franklin's Library and the Public School of Philadelphia]
[states Francis Mercury van Helmont, fl. 1680, was a Quaker]
[notes that he is beginning a new edition of the journal of George Fox]
[re shipping merchants of New York]
[re meeting to discuss his educational work in India]
[re Anthony Benezet and owning "the only photo in existence" of Benezet's house on Locust St.]
[re teaching a course with H.J.C. on pacifism]
[re Quakerism and cabbalism]
[re European Friends]
[re Ellis Pugh; sends list of mss. in Wales relating to Quakerism]
[re Ellis Pugh; sends list of books in Wales relating to Quakerism]
[re "open door" policy at Westtown School]
[arguments opposing "open door" policy at Westtown School]
[relates events of the period approximating the time of George Fox; mentions Raby and Stanhope areas, minister Bewick and the Vane families; maps of Darlington and Newcastle Monthly Meeting enclosed]
[describes new edition of Fox's Journal]
[re George Fox's Annual Catalogue]
[responds to questions concerning George Fox's Annual Catalogue]
[re what George Fox would have seen during his visit to Lichfield in 1651]
[re Fox's denunciation of Lichfield]
[re employment of H.J.C. at Harvard]
[re imprisonment of Christopher Meidell]
[re most common Quaker trades]
[re George Fox's Annual Catalog; includes transcription of Quarterly Meeting minutes at Durham, 1691]
[sends list of George Fox epistles in records of Dublin Yearly Meeting]
[re two journals kept by James Lancaster noting that Robert Widders was at one time the only Friend with George Fox]
[re his work on Fox]
[re Pieter Hendricks' defense of the Quakers; also defenses by William Penn, George Fox and Jan Claus]
[re "Etting Papers"]
[re West Answering the North]
[re George Fox's epistles in Mark Swanner's hand (1652)]
[re Anthony Benezet materials]
[re George Fox in Cornwall, 1654-55]
[re Francis M. van Helmont; description of Darrow collection of Helmontiana at Western Reserve University by J.H. Hanford]
[re George Fox's letters relating to Holland; list attached]
[re anti-Quaker Adam Boreel; answer by George Fox to same]
[re Mary Dyer]
[re Benjamin Lay engraving]
[re Meeting House in Newport]
[John Wilbur letters]
[includes a list of prisoners, Feb., 1671-2]
[re Quaker records and publication of genealogical source for North Carolina Yearly Meeting]
[re place of Quaker businessmen in American business; specific case dealing with New York Trans-Atlantic Packet Services enclosed]
[copy of a Benezet letter enclosed]
[encloses copies of Benezet and John Thorp letters]
[attached are H.J.C.'s notes re some abbreviations in the original George Fox catalogue]
[re Bristol Mss., one probably dictated by Fox, using his own ms. as a basis]
[attached are H.J.C.'s notes on the Free Produce movement]
[re Edward Billinge, Thomas Budd, George Fox]
[re Friends' institutions]
[attaches list of Free Produce societies]
[notes re Francis M. van Helmont]
[s.l., s.n., n.d.]
[encloses copy of letter by William Dillwyn concerning the work of Thomas Clarkson toward the abolition of the slave trade]
[encloses partial minutes of Salem Meeting, 1651]
[encloses copies of George Fox documents]
[re letters of Anthony Benezet to Robert Pleasants held by Baltimore Yearly Meeting]
[re George Fox bible at Friends House]
[re her book on Margaret Fell]
[re sponsorship of Tausky family as immigrants to America]
[re George Fox and Hebraiica — perhaps Hebrew-English dictionary]
[re notebook with a clue to George Fox's letters]
[re Chew genealogy]
[re Buffington genealogy]
[includes transcribed Anthony Benezet letter]
[re Ulverston and George Fell]
[re free school for Black and white children and Flushing Female Association]
[re personnel for refugee work in Germany and Austria]
[re education of poor white and Black children through Haddonfield Monthly Meeting School Fund]
[re Edward Wanton Smith]
[re Nova Scotia Quakers]
[re Quakers in Barbados]
[re Cornelis Roelofs Vanderwerf]
[re Puritans and Quakers in colonial America]
[encloses copy of a letter of Jonah Thompson to Anthony Benezet]
[re Quakers in early Md.]
[re possibility of not taking new members into Society during the war]
[re Cotton Mather and the Quakers]
[re Cotton Mather and George Fox's Book of Miracles]
[re English Friends and war]
[re centers for dissemination of Quaker information]
[re applications for membership in the Society of Friends during the war]
[re recollections of John Woolman by John Cox]
[re Penn's membership in the Royal Society of London]
[re Woolman and health]
[re Cadbury's George Fox's Book of Miracles]
[encloses a paper "probably in the hand of Mary Howland" called "An Extract from a Letter Written by Thomas B. Gouldy
[encloses photostat of letter of Anthony Benezet to John Ettwein]
[re conscientious objectors; includes other material on c.o.'s; minute of Representative Meeting of Philadelphia and vicinity, 1st mo. 17, 1941, concerning mission of H.J.C. in Britain to furnish aid during the war]
[includes photostat of Spangenberg's letter to Anthony Benezet]
[comments re Cadbury's "Quaker Relief during the Siege of Boston]
[re Otis family genealogy]
[gives war news and treatment of c.o.'s]
[asks Cadbury to be on Advisory Committee for Latin American project]
[encloses partial account of his trip to West Indies in 1904-05]
[re Gibson genealogy]
[includes information on Nevis, St. Kitts, Robert Rich and Roger Longworth]
[encloses transcribed letter from John Parrish, David Offley and James Cresson to Dear Friends, Philadelphia, 11 mo. 24, 1789]
[re Penn's books]
[includes information on Quakers in Barbados]
[re Daniel Baker and some nanval records.]
[re John Woolman's library]
[more on Woolman's books]
[war news and c.o. information]
[re how ships are named and specifically how the name "John Woolman" came to be used]
[re William Penn's books]
[re Norwegian Quakers]
[re Mary Dyre (Dyer)]
[re Faber's connection with early Friends]
[discussion over whether Carver's Creek Monthly Meeting in North Carolina was organized by London Yearly Meeting and other Meetings; microfilming of genealogical material of Meetings established by London Yearly Meeting]
[re acceptance of a Black family into Society of Friends]
[re Woolman's seà journal; war news]
[re Penn's Sussex and and Kent Journal]
[includes ms. article "Miracles and Healings during the First Period of Quakerism" by Howard d Collier]
[re her book on Margaret Fell]
[re relationship between William Penn and Daniel Defoe.]
[re use of metaphors in Native American treaties]
[encloses information re Jushua Shinn, 1800-81]
[encloses partial Smedley genealogy]
[encloses Valentine genealogy]
[re William Penn and brewery business]
[opinions and news re the war; answers to reference questions]
[re Penn and drinking taverns]
[re his Nantucket ms.]
[re care of poor and insane by Friends as referred to in Kennett Monthly Meeting minutes; encloses minutes relating to their care]
[re his work on the Swarthmore Mss.]
[views on war situation]
[re her work on Gulielma Penn]
[re Irish Quakers]
[re a novel she wishes to write concerning a family in Nantucket at the time of the Wilbur-Gurney Separation].
[re a volume of Quaker writings to be translated into Chinese]
[re Joint Study Group's beginnings in 1911-12]
[re a checklist of Quaker journals which he hoped H.J.C. would help compile]
[re two possible sets of original minute books of Chesterfield Monthly Meeting]
[re Friends and slavery]
[re volume on Quaker beginnings from the point of view of spiritual insights]
[re Woolman seal]
[re Benjamin Lay]
[encloses a typed excerpt from Chesterfield Monthly Meeting, 1763, written by John Woolman]
[re seal of John Woolman]
[re a fourth child of William Penn and Giulielma Springett]
[re Cotton Mather letter alleged to have been forged by James Shunk]
[re the statement that Penn's Irish estates helped finance the Pennsylvania experiment]
[re William Penn in Munster in 1670 and Lady Tynte]
[re Black families who attended the school at Byberry Meeting]
[re Fox as the key figure to the understanding of Quakerism; H.J.C.'s assertion that early Friends did not think their message prophetic; Benson's belief that early Friends' message was "prophetic" rather than mystical]
[re book of days]
[about a committee to keep local colleges from succumbing to army and navy pressure and consequent indoctrination of students]
[re the use of the term "church" in Quakerism as referred to be Penn]
[re Fox's Swarthmoor bible having been restored]
[re Margaret Fox letter purchased by Haverford.]
[re Margaret Fox's possible pregnancy]
[re George Fox's Book of Miracles and the example of blister being produced by suggestion]
[re status of women among the Lenape (Delaware)]
["that of God in every man" as being the central aspect of mysticism]
[re Thomas Denham who befriended Benjamin Franklin]
[encloses a paper he has written entitled "... The Fincher Family" and wonders if it should be published.]
[re Penn's tenants and Penn's peregrinations]
[re portraits of Samuel and Increase Mather]
[re Penn genealogy]
[re Black Quakers]
[re history of the area and photos, primarily of Macroom Castle; also re Margaret and William Penn]
[re William Edmondson's urging to give freedom to Blacks in 1675; George Fox on Barbadoes in 1671 speaking against slavery]
[re new edition of George Fox's Journal]
[re new edition of George Fox's Journal and emendations suggested over Cambridge and Ellwood editions]
[re minutes of Philadelphia Monthly Meeting for the Western District disowning Lucretia and James Mott]
[re new edition of George Fox's Journal and Nickall's role in it]
[re situation in Israel]
[re political attitude of George Fox during the English Revolution]
[re George Bishop, an early Bristol Friend, including attached pages of information concerning Bishop]
[re ms. held by Swarthmore listing the names of persons in the ministry who came from England, Ireland, etc. to visit America beginning in 1656 and ending in 1803.]
[re proposal that Pickett go to Cairo to negotiate re (Quaker) Palestine project]
[re loss of County Sessions records; James Nayler buried in Kings Ripton Burial Ground; beginning a Quaker Studies bulletin]
[re Cadbury's Letters to William Dewsbury in which a Parnell is listed]
[re Quakers delinquent in paying tithes from 1654-61; appended copied report of the 1658 trial of William Robinson]
[re "trial walk" which preceded the "Walking Purchase" of 1837; Mattern Mss.]
[re his editing of George Fox's Journal]
[re preacher Joanna Mott]
[re Russo-American relations: not to counteract the spread of Communism with force, but by making democracy work through education support of countries with less indisutrial development]
[re policies that will avoid confrontation between Soviets and Americans]
[re George Fox's Journal and Gulielma Penn genealogy]
[re history of Friend in the British West Indies, with an appended list of sources]
[re child of William and Guli Penn]
[re excerpts from the letters of Mary Morton describing Meetings from 1825-27, and including the manifesto establishing the Separation]
[s.l., s.n., ca. 1940s].
[re articles on Quakerism and Cadbury's wish he could read Swedish]
[re Nell Gwynn and the Quakers]
[information concerning 100,000 acres of land in New Jersey which George Fox may have attempted to purchase]
[re a codicil to John Rous' will in which he relents towards his daughter, Margaret, granddaughter of Margaret Fell Fox]
[re basis for assumption that John Comly had a hand in editing the 1837 edition of John Woolman's Journal]
[re John Woolman's ms. account of his voyage to England]
[re Quaker peace principle and the convincement of peoples of opposing philosophies while maintaining respect for them]
[re Jabez Maud Fisher]
[re prices paid for Native American scalps, listing Gov. William Penn as offering money Pennsylvania would pay for scalps. Cadbury made annotations that date is incorrect and questions Penn being author of said]
[re Quakers and the arts, particularly within her own family]
[re "gaol" mentioned in Fox's writings]
[re copy of Elizabeth Drinker's Diary]
[re grave marker for Guli Penn, daughter of William Penn]
[re grave markers for William Penn and family]
[re the possibility of Cadbury's coming to teach at Haverford College]
[re relief for victims of a fire in Virginia, 1776 — provisions carried by Edward Stabler and Robert Pleasants]
[encloses minutes of National Half Year's Meeting held in Dublin in 1734, including a minute to reprint a George Fox epistle]
[includes squib and order form for Cadbury's Letters to William Dewsbury]
[re large collection of Quaker papers belonging to the Rotch family whose vessels were involved in the Boston Tea Party]
[encloses account of William Allan, a Black Quaker, re petition by Quakers for land patents]
[re 1250 acres in Pennsylvania deeded by William Penn to George Fox]
[re the reprinting of Quaker texts originally printed under the auspices of the Rowntree Trust; suggestions from Geoffrey Nuttall appended]
[elucidates the philosophy of the A.F.S.C.]
[encloses copy of an entry from Thomas Priestmans diary, 1772, about the last illness and death of John Woolman]
[copy of a letter from Margaret Fox to "Dear Friends, Brethren and Sisters", 1697, on verso]
[encloses an article by J.A. Yarden-Trebull entitled "Russians and the Religion of Silence"]
[re reprinting of Rufus Jones' Quakers in the American Colonies]
[encloses corrigenda to be used in the reprinting of Braithwaite's The Beginnings of Quakerism]
[re Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe and the inner light]
[re persons who signed a petition on behalf of James Nayler and list of same.]
[re some of James Nayler's petitioners]
[re James Nayler's petitioners]
[encloses copy of letter written in 1848 explaining the reason for John Bartram's disownment]
[re his book on George Fox]
[re corrections to Braithwaite's Beginnings of Quakerism]
[James Nayler and Braithwaite's Beginnings of Quakerism]
[re descendant of Penn Treaty Elm]
[re logic and religion]
[requests H.J.C. to become thesis director for Youra Qualls]
[re Cadbury's teaching at Haverford College]
[expresses delight at Cadbury's acceptance of a teaching position at Haverford]
[re Cadbury's acceptance of a teaching position at Pendle Hill]
[re the work of Richard Cadbury in Friends Freedmen Association, 1868]
[re Cadbury's acceptance of a teaching position at Drew University]
[re Quakerism course to be taught by Cadbury]
[re Cadbury's acceptance of the Jackson lectureship]
[encloses copy of will and other data re Richard Humphreys, 1832]
[re a talk given; Quaker Fellows of the Royal Society]
[re Lincoln's Quaker ancestry]
[re Edward Cadbury lectures which H.J.C. agreed to give]
[re privilege against self-incrimination in a court of law]
[re date of death of Margaret Fox]
[re use of term "liberal Quakers"]
[re development of Christianity and Quakerism]
[encloses information on John Woolman and School house in Mt. Holly]
[re Elias Hicks and his position on the divinity of Christ]
[encloses copy of letter from George Fox to Peter Hendricks]
[re William Bromfield, ca. 1700]
[re a talk with Albert Schweitzer, Quakers and slavery]
[re Dr. Edward Wilson who accompanied Scott on his voyages to the North Pole]
[references to George Fox and a list of Fox sermons]
[re biographical note to be included in Cadbury's Swarthmore Lecture; enclosed is Cadbury's version of is curriculum vitae]
[encloses a fragment in the hand of George Dillwyn relating to his dreams]
[includes Frederick Tolles' typescript copy of his introduction to the Second Period of Quakerism.]
[re nuclear testing and the armaments race.]
[re his thesis and comments on Donne]
[re newly discovered Quaker manuscripts in Bodleian Library — by Edward Burrough, Margaret Fox, John Stubbs — with some excerpts]
[re Muggletonians]
[re his Pendle Hill pamphlet "For the Refreshing of the Children of Light"; comparison of George Fox material as cited in different sources]
[includes a minute on the proposed book by Richenda Scott on Friends' work in Russia]
[re books which belonged to George Fox]
[re Cadbury's The Character of a Quaker]
[including an autograph copy in H.J.C.'s hand of a Woolman letter on humility, 1763]
[attached are H.J.C.'s notes re J. Bernard Haviland's doctoral thesis]
[re compilation of bibliography of H.J.C.'s works]
[re passages in which George Fox refers to Christ as mediator; "the light for Fox is the producer of community..."]
[re question of whether George Fox laid greater stress on inward or outward Christ]
[re plan of Penn burial ground]
[re the relief work of Esther Rigg in Russia, 1916-19]
[re two Florida Monthly Meetings laid down in 1890s]
[re portraits of George Fox]
[re William Penn's library]
[includes article by Candle entitled "The Grave of William Penn - some Problems of History"]
[re English ministers who visited New England]
[encloses copy of an article "History of Friends in Charleston, S.C."]
[encloses photostat of a letter by John Woolman concerning the production of "a small cart with springs."]
[re Richenda Scott's work on Friends work in Russia]
[re her book on Friends and Russia including a rough plan of the book]
[explains the projected scope of her book on Friends' contacts with Russia]
[re various people involved in work in Russia]
[re Cadbury's attending the Congress on "The New Testament Today" and presenting a paper]
[re holding a conference on disarmament]
[attached is a letter from L. John Collins concerned with the establishment of a Wester non-partisan unit for cooperation among peace groups]
[re John Fothergill and copies of epistles]
[re graves of Daniel Wheeler and family in Leningrad]
[invites Cadbury to give ceremonial speech at opening of new wing at Woodbrooke]
[re the "mediatorship of Christ"]
[re reason Friends published more than other "non-conformist" groups; Nuttall's work-in-progress on life of Baxter]
[re Lincoln genealogy]
[encloses letter to President Kennedy on behalf of delegation of six Friends re peace initiatives and attaches excerpts from news clippings dealing with U.S. relief programs in Europe]
[re burial ground in N.J. containing marker for one Deborah Lincoln, d. 1720]
[re philosophical basis for origin of A.F.S.C.]
[re a festschrift honoring Emil Fuchs]
[re H.J.C. contribution to festschrift honoring Emil Fuchs]
[Encloses photostat of John Woolman letter to John Smith, 7 mo. 10th 1762]
[re direction of Quakerism theologically; includes his paper entitled "Christian Commitment and Social Concern..."]
[encloses copy of a letter from Sarah Tuke Grubb to Richard Shackleton]
[thanks H.J.C. for copy of book of lectures The Eclipse of the Historical Jesus]
[re possible meeting of Benjamin Franklin and John Woolman in England; Benjamin Franklin writing to Anthony Benezet and John Bartram; Franklin genealogy]
[re Thomas Parke's visit to Benjamin Franklin in 1772]
[re John Woolman in England]
[re Benjamin West and his painting "Penn's Treaty with the Indians"]
See also copy of Scott, Richenda to HJC, 4 June 1962 about her on various aspects of her "Quakers in Russia" which accompanies the TS in 950- Scott, Richenda
[re H.J.C.'s book on John Woolman in England]
[re code used in 17th century Quaker ms.; attached is a transcribed letter of George Fox's taken from the Tapper Mss., a testimony against Christmas]
(on verso of Lister letter, see 307). [re code used in the Tapper Ms.; Mark Swanner, whose handwriting appears in a George Fox manuscript; purpose of codes or shorthand]
[re Woolman in England with notes appended]
[re origins and founders of Whittier, Cal.]
[re John Fothergill and "snubbing"]
[re John Woolman at Low Park]
[re his book on John Woolman, for which an outline is enclosed]
[contains map of York, where John Woolman died, dated 1850; burial ground at York]
[re additions and questions concerning his Woolman in England ms.]
[further concerning burial ground at York; meetinghouses in York]
[re the editing of H.J.C.'s Woolman in England]
[re John Woolman's beard]
[re John Woolman's beard]
[re John Woolman's grave]
[expresses gratitude for Cadbury's "hermeneutical formula"]
[re his preparation of a Cadbury family genealogy, American branch]
[re the use of the phrase "I knew God experimentally" by George Fox]
[re note by John Woolman to Caleb Carr concerning "a small cart with springs"— a photocopy is attached]
[re Nuttall's newest publications]
[re Cadbury's unpublished Quakerism in Jamaica]
[re additional material for his ms. on Woolman]
[re Samuel and William Emlen's residences (including prison) and Robert or James Peters]
[re Samuel Emlen and Robert Peters]
[re his work on Penn and the Ireland of his day; on Newtown's addition of a school under its jurisdiction]
[re superscripts used with Quaker-style dating]
[re Edward Robson and Jonathan Backhouse, with family tree appended; account of William Hunt's travels and other travelling ministers]
[re "Quakers vault" in Port of Spain, Trinidad, Barbados]
[re the conversion of William Penn]
[re his impending work on William Hunt's travels]
[re land held by early settlers in New Garden, N.C. and William Hunt's property and relief for family]
[re restoration of Friends Meetinghouse in Newport, R.I.]
[re William Penn and the Great Case of Liberty of Conscience...]
[re the restoration of the Levi Coffin house at Fountain City]
[encloses copy of Abraham Lincoln letter inquiring into his possible Quaker ancestry]
[commentary re Barclay's Apology]
[re Paul Cuffe — in business, his relationship with William Rotch, Jr. and William Allen]
[re John Woolman's Journal and its relevance in contemporary times; a glossary to use in reading the Journal]
[re Woolman's use of language in his writings — modern vs. colloquial forms]
[re Goethe, Luke Howard and the Quakers, about whom she published an account in 1972]
[re Woolman's use of language in a stylistic sense]
[re Quaker graves on Tortola]
[re Fox's philosophy of "that of God in every man" and Benson's paper on Fox's thought]
[re 18th-19th century Black scientist and almanac producer, Benjamin Banneker and Black clockmaker, Peter Hill]
[questions re John Woolman's Journal and ms. A Plea for the Poor]
[re the use of the term "corporate" in Barclay's and Penn's works; the meaning of "church"
[re copyists of John Woolman's Journal]
[re Moulton's Woolman ms.]
[re his book on William Penn; appended is the preface to that book]
[re John Woolman's "A Word of Remembrance and Caution to the Rich..." in different versions]
Responds to Wilson's discoveries of Penn and Fox letters (presumably at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania) with references to sickness in Pennsylvania, Ireland and New England in the 17th century, as well as to Anthony Sharp and Samuel Claridge
Physical Description3 items
[re two Friends, Anthony Sharp and Samuel Claridge, who became aldermen in 1687]
[encloses "A Checklist of Extant Quaker Sermons, 1653-1700"]
[re Penington statement on religious tolerance and its application toward an interpretation of Individualistic Quakerism]
[re the phrase "let your lives preach" as used by George Fox]
[re Moulton's Journal... of John Woolman which contains Woolman's final ms. in its entiretly]
[re the method by which John Woolman's A Word...to the Rich... was constructed]
[re opposing thoughts in Fox's works of "heavenly mindedness" to "earthly mindedness"]
[re Quakers and penal systems]
[in response to question abou various editions of George Fox's Journal]
[encloses a photocopy of a letter written by Samuel Bownas to Joseph Curtiss in 1749]
[encloses photocopy of letter written by John Fothergill to William Logan in 1771]
[re Luke Howard and relief in Germany after the Napoleonic wars; pages from Greenwood's Quaker Encounters]
[encloses a description and partial outline of his projected book George Fox, Prophet of the Spiritual Reformation]
[re moving of 12th Street Meeting House to George School]
[re a George Fox letter presented to the Swiss Society of Friends on "the seven University arts" and which would be approved and which disapproved by Friends]
[sends copy of Fox letter mentioned in 369 above]
[re Cadbury's "Letters from the Past"]
[re Moulton's book The Journal and Major Essays of John Woolman]
[fragment, n.d.]
[re materials concerning George Fox's American journey]
[re Ballitore; included are photographs of Chandlee's mill and remains of Abraham Shackleton's school]
[encloses photograph of Bunratty castle "which Admiral Penn spent eight months defending..."]
[Notes devoted to class lectures may be found in the sections "bible course notes" and "lectures"; the latter are arranged chronologically. Certain major lectures are highlighted below]
10 p.
in Box 37.
6 p.
in Box 37
in Box 38
in Box 38
8 p.
See also: "A Quaker Approach to the Bible": FQ, v. 8, 1954, p. 71-81 and F., v. 102, 1929, p. 373-75.
in Box 38
in Box 39
in Box 39
in Box 39
in Box 39
in Box 39
in Box 40
10 p.
in Box 41
The talk contained autobiographical content.
in Box 43, folder 1
[complete itemization]:
3 p.
20 p.
6 p.
2 copies.
[both of the above were a result of a Quaker theological discussion group in which H.J.C. participated]
2 p.
[These boxes contain research notes made by H.J.C.]
2 folders
3 folders
44 items.
5 folders.
[Quakers]
18 p.
[relating to Daniel Defoe]
6 folders.
8 p.
3p.
[used for "Influence of Fox's Journal" in George Fox's Journal, 1963?]
Articles, correspondence, including with Frederic Crownfield and John L. Nickalls, copy for Cadbury's book, Friendly Heritage, reports of meetings on pacifism, including a visit to President Kennedy in 1962, notes by and for Henry Cadbury and miscellaneous. For greater detail, see table of contents which follows.
Physical Description60 items
2p.
6 p.
Original Query
General Physical Description note1 p.
Original query published in JFHS, v. 32, 1935
General Physical Description note1 p.
2p.
2p.
12 items
[concerns George Fox's signature in the Hoxie guest book.]
[comments on Crownfield's ms. on the Bible.]
[has read through his manuscript; "your agnosticism usually suits my own point of view perfectly"; wonders how Crownfield can make the understanding of the New Testament so simple and with so few references to books.]
[comments on Cadbury's Book of Miracles to which he has a favorable response.
Photocopies of originals at Harvard Divinity School.
Correspondence, 1910-48; 1950-51; 1953-54; n.d. Biographical information on correspondents. Abstracts of some German letters.
General Physical Description noteArranged in box 60:
[Primarily ms.; 2 artifacts]
3p.
10 p.
See 988 E
1 p.
[by Anne Emilie Munthe Jansen]. Typescript. See 975A
[E.M. Shilstone?]
50 p.
18 p.
(anon.)