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Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds) Holcombe Diaries

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

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
RG5.063
Repository:
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Extent:
2 linear ft. (4 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item or series here], Hadassah M. L. Holcombe Diaries, RG5/063, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1904-1937 (inclusive)
Creator:
Holcombe, Hadassah M. L. (Hadassah Moore Leeds), 1891-1878, Friends Council on Education (Philadelphia, Pa.), and Friends General Conference (U.S.)
Abstract:
Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the Boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College. The collection contains her diaries from 1904-1937.

Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978) was a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference. Hadassah Joanna Moore was born in 1891, the daughter of Robert Rowland and Margaret Gillingham (possibly Gittings. The former taken from Sandy Spring MM records) Tyson Moore of Sandy Spring Monthly Meeting. She attended George School and graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1924. She married Morris E. Leeds, an Orthodox Quaker and member of Germantown Monthly Meeting, two years later. After his death in 1952, she married Raymond T. Parrot, and, later, Arthur N. Holcombe. Hadassah Holcombe taught mathematics at the Germantown Friends School for ten years, and, in addition to her other activities, served on the boards of Swarthmore College, Antioch, George School, Sidwell Friends, and Haverford College.

The collection contains the diaries (1904-1937) of Hadassah M.L. Holcombe (1891-1978), a Quaker educator who was a co-founder of the Friends Council of Education and served as Secretary of the Friends General Conference and Chairman of the Committee on Education of the Friends World Conference.

The collection is divided into two series:

  1. Biographical and genealogical
  2. Diaries

Donor: Esther L. Cooperman, 1981

See also:

  1. The diaries of Hadassah M.L. Holcombe after 1937 remain in the possession of her daughter (as of 1981).

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1981
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.

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Collection Inventory

Information on the Townsend and Moore families, n.d.
Box 1

Scope and Contents

The supplements are the loose pages and papers contained in each diary.

Journal, 1904 3mo 6-1904 4mo 29.
Box 1
Journal, 1904 4mo 30-1904 8mo 14.
Box 1
Supplement, 1904.
Box 1
Journal, 1905 1mo 23-1905 6mo 14.
Box 1
Journal, 1905 6mo 15-1905 10mo 20.
Box 1
Supplement, 1905.
Box 1
Journal, 1906 2mo 18-1906 6mo 29.
Box 1
Journal, 1906 6mo 30-1906 10mo 10.
Box 1
Supplement, 1906.
Box 1
Journal, 1907 1mo 1-1907 6mo 7.
Box 1
Journal, 1907 6mo 8-1907 12mo 13.
Box 1
Supplement, 1907.
Box 1
Journal, 1908 5mo 28-1908 11mo 30.
Box 1
Supplement, 1908.
Box 1
Journal, 1909 6mo 16-1909 10mo 5.
Box 1
Journal, 1909 10mo 6-1910 1mo 2.
Box 1
Supplement, 1910.
Box 1
Journal, 1911 1mo 1-1911 12mo 31.
Box 1
Journal, 1912 1mo 1-1912 12mo 31.
Box 1
Journal, 1913 1mo 1-1913 12mo 31.
Box 1
Journal, 1915 1mo 1-1915 12mo 31.
Box 1
Journal, 1916 1mo 1-1916 12mo 31.
Box 1
Journal, 1917 1mo 1-1918 1mo 1.
Box 2
Journal, 1918 1mo 1-1918 1mo 31.
Box 2
Journal, 1919 1mo 1-1919 12mo 31.
Box 2
Journal, 1920 1mo 1-1920 12mo 31.
Box 2
Journal, 1921 1mo 1-1921 12mo 31.
Box 2
Journal, 1922 1mo 1-1922 12mo 31.
Box 2
Supplement, 1923.
Box 2
Supplement, 1924.
Box 2
Supplement, 1925.
Box 2
Supplement, 1926.
Box 2
Supplement, 1927.
Box 3
Supplement, 1928.
Box 3
Supplement, 1929.
Box 3
Supplement, 1930.
Box 3
Supplement, 1931.
Box 3
Journal, 1932 1mo 1-1932 12mo 31.
Box 4
Supplement, 1933.
Box 4
Supplement, 1934.
Box 4
Supplement, 1935.
Box 4
Supplement, 1936.
Box 4
Supplement, 1937.
Box 4
Journal, 1938-1943.
Box 5
Physical Description

6 vols.

Journal, 1944-1950.
Box 6
Physical Description

7 vols.

Journal, 1951-1956.
Box 7
Physical Description

6 vols.

Journals and trip journals, 1956, 1958; 1957-1960.
Box 8
Physical Description

6 vols.

Journal, 1961-1966.
Box 9
Physical Description

6 vols.

Journal, 1967-1972.
Box 10
Physical Description

6 vols.

Journal, 1973-1977.
Box 11
Physical Description

5 vols.

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