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Anna Bassett Griscom Papers
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Held at: Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081
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Anna Bassett Griscom (Elkinton) (1889-1974) was a prominent American Quaker, active in the peace movement. She graduated from Friends Central School, Swarthmore College, and the University of Pennsylvania. She served as Executive Secretary of the Friends General Conference, chairman of a committee to organize the Friends World Conference held at Swarthmore College in 1937, chairman of the Friends Peace Committee of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, and was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation. She married J. Passmore Elkinton in 1931.
The collection includes correspondence, speeches and writings, and miscellaneous manuscripts of Anna B. Griscom. Of particular interest is material relating to Woodbrooke, a Quaker study center in England where she worked in 1914, and of the Friends World Conference in 1937.
The collection is divided into five series:
- Genealogical
- Correspondence
- Speeches and writings
- Friends World Conference
- Miscellaneous
Donor: Anna Bassett Griscom Elkinton, 1962
David C. Elkinton, 1974, 1977
Collection was received as a gift from Anna Griscom Elkinton and her step-son, David C. Elkinton
Collection was received partially processed by donor. Later gifts were added to collection.
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- Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
- Finding Aid Author
- FHL staff
- Finding Aid Date
- ca. 1963
- Sponsor
- Encoding made possible by a grant by the Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation to the Philadelphia Consortium of Special Collections Libraries
- Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
Includes one binder of Griscom-Bassett genealogical data, and one binder of Bassett genealogical data.
Physical Description2 binders
Written during her stay at Woodbrooke and while travelling in England and on the Continent, 1914. Among letters of special interest:
Letter comments on London Y.M.; mentions of Joseph Elkinton and family.
Contains further comments on London Y.M. and attitude toward Phila. Y.M. (Race St.). Costs of travel.
Describes Cadbury factory, particularly measures for welfare of employees.
Comments on the beginning of the First World War.
re: gift of chairs.
By Anna B. Griscom, ms. and printed.
ms. notes.
typewritten
typewritten
ms. notes
typewritten, 2 copies
typewritten, 2 copies
printed, 3 copies
2 clippings from The American Friend.
Clipping from Friends Intelligencer with quotation from Anna B. Griscom.
typewritten
typewritten
Attached: typewritten copy of devotional talks on "The Way," given by Anna Griscom Elkinton at Canadian and Genesee Y.M.'s, 1940; and program of the Meetings, held at Pickering College, Newmarket, Ont.
In reply to two articles by Brand Blanshard on the subject. Also letter by Brand Blanshard to A. G. E., 8-15-1941, regarding her reply.
Anna Griscom Elkinton was chairman of Committee which formulated the program.
typewritten
ms.
The White-Williams Foundation, Phila., 1924, Bulletin Series No. 30.
Physical Description2 copies
typewritten
typewritten
typewritten
typewritten, 2 copies
ms., 2 copies
Thesis for M.A. in Sociology.
Physical Descriptiontypewritten, 2 copies
Published by Friends General Conference, Phila.
Physical Descriptiontypewritten copy, 7 printed copies
ms.
Clipping from Friends Intelligencer for that date.
Physical Description2 copies
No. 52, pub. by International Old Woodbrookers' Assoc. Contains article "Re-Union Through American Eyes", by Anna Griscom Elkinton. Also 2 typewritten copies.
No. 52, pub. by International Old Woodbrookers' Assoc. Contains article "Re-Union Through American Eyes", by Anna Griscom Elkinton. Also 2 typewritten copies.
typewritten
ms. typewritten copies
Handbook for while serving as chairman of the Committee.
With some related printed items. Addressed mainly to Anna Griscom Elkinton.
Arranged chronologically.
Article, p.407, re: FWC to be held 9/1 to 9/8/1937.
Containing article, p. 465, "The Story of the Conference", by Anna Griscom Elkinton, and other articles re: the Conference.
containing pictures of Conference leaders and some of the foreign delegates.
Article gives background and leading up to Friends World Conference at Oxford, 1952. Also, The American Friend, 11-22-1951, containing the article, p. 378, under the title "The Growth of Quaker World Fellowship, How it Came to Be."
Physical Descriptiontypewritten copy
Includes typewritten copy, 8/2/1956.
Physical Descriptionp. 522
typewritten
4 albums