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Robert Hoopes Maris 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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Call Number:
RG5.097
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], Robert Hoopes Maris Papers, 1918-1920, RG5/097, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Date:
1918-1920 (inclusive)
Creator:
Maris, Robert Hoopes, 1890-1975 and American Friends Service Committee
Form:
albums (books)
Abstract:
Robert Hoopes Maris (1890-1975) was a Quaker dentist who served with the American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I.. The collection contains chiefly correspondence with his family written while Maris was serving as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I. Also a photograph album and other papers.

Robert Hoopes Maris (1890-1975) was a Quaker dentist who served as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I.

The collection contains chiefly correspondence with his family written while Maris was serving as a dentist with American Friends Service Committee in France after World War I. Also included are a photograph album and other papers.

The collection is divided into three series:

  1. Correspondence
  2. Photograph album
  3. Miscellaneous material

Donor: Ruth O. Maris, 1979

See also:

  1. A paper, "Born with a Gift for Words," by Elizabeth E. Cook, describes poetry which Robert Maris was fond of reciting. The paper is catalogued as a Miscellaneous Manuscript: Misc. Mss. 1974 5mo 16

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Publisher
Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Finding Aid Author
FHL staff
Finding Aid Date
1979
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

Correspondence of Robert Hoopes Maris to his family, ca. 1918-1919.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Letters written while he was doing relief work in France as a member of the American Friends Service Committee (Friends War Victims Relief Committee), 1918-1919.

Mostly of France after the First World War, 1918-1919.
Box 1

Miscellaneous material, 1919-1920, 1919-1920.
Box 1
Scope and Contents

Includes a map of Camp Dix, Wrightstown, N.J.; a newspaper article based on a letter of Robert Maris about his relief work in France, June 1919; and a copy of the minutes of the last meeting of the Friends War Victims Relief Committee in France, 4mo 19, 1920.

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