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Friends' Opportunity in the Orient

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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 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

Call Number:
RG4.036
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
0.5 linear ft. (1 box)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Friends' Opportunity in the Orient Records, RG 4/036, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Date:
1923-1924 (inclusive)
Creator:
Friends Opportunity in the Orient (Organization), Augur, Margaret Riggs, and Canton Hospital (Guangzhou, China)
Abstract:
Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s. The collection contains primarily correspondence with Margaret Hallowell Riggs, who was sponsored to teach at Canton Christian College and Canton Hospital.

Friends Opportunity in the Orient was an unofficial Hicksite organization which sponsored a Quaker teacher in Canton, China, in the 1920s.

Letters, treasurer's reports, pictures and other papers relating to the work of the organization.

The collection is organized into four series. The series are:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Treasurer's Report
  3. Pictures
  4. Other papers relating to the organization.

For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.

Gift of Bernard Walton, 1957

These papers were given to Bernard Walton, secretary, by Alfred Wright, treasurer, and by Bernard Walton to the Friends Historical Library.

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
2000
Sponsor
Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

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Collection Inventory

Letters written, mostly by or about Margaret Hallowell (Riggs) Augur., 3/12/1923-2/11/1924.
Box 1

Treasurer's Report, 1/5/1924.
Box 1

Pictures.
Box 1

Canton Hospital Annual Report, 1922.
Box 1

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