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Margaret Hope Bacon collection on Henry Joel Cadbury

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Held at: Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections [Contact Us]370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011) was an American Quaker scholar. An Alumna of Antioch College, she wrote biographies of prominent Quakers, including Henry Joel Cadbury. She also wrote fiction and nonfiction.

Henry Joel Cadbury (1883-1974) was a biblical scholar and Quaker historian. He was a professor at Haverford College and Harvard University. He was the director of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) from 1928 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1960. He delivered the Nobel Prize lecture in 1947 on behalf of the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council, when the two organizations accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the Religious Society of Friends.

This collection contains research notes and cassette tape recordings created by Margaret Hope Bacon during the writing of her book Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury, published in 1987.

The Margaret Hope Bacon collection on Henry Joel Cadbury was donated to Special Collections, Haverford College in 1993 by Margaret Hope Bacon. Accession no. 5697.

Processed by Mary A. Crauderueff; completed February, 2016.

Publisher
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections
Finding Aid Author
Mary A. Crauderueff
Finding Aid Date
February, 2013
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research use.

Use Restrictions

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Collection Inventory

Archival Resource Key. Research notes, 1986-1987, undated.
Box 1
Scope and Content

The research notes are organized chronologically, ranging from 1900 through Cadbury's death. It also includes catagories labeled "topics," "about HJC," "books," "bibliography," "Obits," and "interviews," among others. These notes are on 4 x 6 inch cards

Archival Resource Key. Winnie and Marty Ben(?), undated.
Box 1
Archival Resource Key. Bart Cadbury, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. H.J. Cadbury, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. H.J. Cadbury duplicate, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Warder Cadbury I, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Warder Cadbury II, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Warder Cadbury III, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Christopher Colby, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Spencer Coxe, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Doris and A(?), undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Leah Fulmuller, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. Doug Helm, undated.
Box 2
Archival Resource Key. M. Gowan McColland, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Betty Musgrave I, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Betty Musgrave II, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Elmore Smith, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Dorothy and Douglas Steere, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Algernon Toles(?), undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Mildred Young, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Emerson/Wilkie", Wildor Amos, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "For Baine Davis - includes Monday Kent" (cassette labeled "spare"), undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. William, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. "Trip to Seneca Bank", undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Norman, Millmans, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. Henry J. Cadbury: The Gathered Meeting as Basis for Social Order: a Pendle Hill Tape #37, undated.
Box 3
Archival Resource Key. 2 unlabeled tapes, undated.
Box 3

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