Call Number:

MC.950.020

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Lewis Benson papers (HC.MC.950.020), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1959

Creator:

Benson, Lewis

Form:

Correspondence, manuscripts (documents), letters (correspondence), and Lecture notes

Abstract:

This collection contains a letter from Lewis Benson to Henry Cadbury and a typed manuscript of Benson's lecture on "The Christian Universalism of George Fox."

Lewis Benson (1906-1986) was a Quaker whose research focused on the writings of George Fox. Benson was born in 1906 in Sea Girt, New Jersey. He was born into a Quaker family, and was a member of Manasquan Meeting. At 16, he left school and became a messenger boy for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Benson spent a year at Pendle Hill, a quaker retreat, from 1933 to 1934. He then moved to Shrewsbury, New Jersey, to help revive the Quaker meeting there. Benson became the first librarian at Pendle Hill. He lectured at various Quaker institutions like Pendle Hill and Haverford College. He died in New Jersey in 1986.

This collection is comprised of a single letter from Lewis Benson to Henry Cadbury and a typed manuscript of Benson's lecture on "The Christian Universalism of George Fox."