Call Number:

MC.950.187

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

.01 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Catherine Brinton Cary papers (HC.MC.950.187), Quaker & Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1829, 1930 (inclusive)

Creator:

Cary, Catherine Brinton

Form:

Poems

Abstract:

The collection contains papers related to Catherine Brinton Cary.

Cathy Cary was born in Richmond, Indiana, in 1924. Her family moved to Pendle Hill, where her parents served as co-directors. Cary attended Westtown Boarding School and Antioch College, where she studied psychology and occupational therapy. She met her husband, John Richard Cary, at a Quaker Meeting in Baltimore, in the early 1950s. They moved to Haverford, Pennsylvania, where her husband taught German at Haverford College. She died in 2016.

The collection is comprised of a single folder of papers related to Catherine Brinton Cary, and includes a copy of a short book entitled "Ibaraki Here and There," about a trip to Japan; a poem composed on the death of Charles Fisher (1829); and a typed "Chronology of Her Life" by Edith Sharpless.