Call Number:

MC.950.010

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

1.4 linear ft.

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Margaret Hope Bacon collection on Henry Joel Cadbury (HC.MC.950.010), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1985-1987, undated (inclusive)

Creator:

Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974, Steere, Douglas V. (Douglas Van), 1901-1995, Cadbury, Warder H., and Steere, Dorothy M., 1908-2003

Form:

Research notes and biographies (documents)

Abstract:

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.

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.