Call Number:

MC.950.219

Repository:

Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections

Extent:

0.005 linear ft. (1 folder)

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Cathy Cary collection (HC.MC.950.219), Quaker and Special Collections, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.

Date:

1812-1840 (inclusive)

Creator:

Cary, Catherine Brinton

Form:

letters (correspondence)

Abstract:

This collection contains miscellaneous Quaker materials collected by Cathy Cary.

Catherine (Cathy) Brinton 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.

This collection contains a copies of "Legacy for Children: the Dying Sayings of Hannah Hill" (1812), "Meeting of Ministers and Elders in London" (1837), "Substance of Midlred Radcliff's Dream" (1840), a letter written by Phebe Pennock to "Friend" (1827), a letter written by William J. Allinson, and a discription of Friends occupying seats in the gallery of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (18--?) .

This collection is arranged in a single folder.