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This collection was given to the Friends Historical Library in three parts. The first consisted of the original manuscript for Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott, originally catalogued as MSS007. The bulk of the collection was donated by Bacon in 2010, shortly before her death.

Donor: Gift of Margaret Hope Bacon, 1993, 2010

Donor: Gift of S. Allen Bacon, 2012.034

Additional accruals: 2004.005, 2014.034

People

• Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974
• Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887
• Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 1806-1882
• Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
• Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873
• Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
• Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852
• Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
• Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
• Still, William, 1821-1902

Subject

• Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
• Quakers -- Pennsylvania
• American fiction
• Authors, American -- 20th century

Publisher

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Finding Aid Author

FHL staff

Finding Aid Date

2011

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