Call Number:

SC.017

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (2 folders.))

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Mary Capper Correspondence, 1816-1835.

Date:

1816-1835 (inclusive)

Creator:

Capper, Mary, 1795-, Cadbury, Elizabeth Head, 1768-1851, Cadbury, Caroline, 1801-1868, and Cadbury, Joel, 1799-1870

Abstract:

Transatlantic correspondence between Mary Capper and the Cadbury family in Philadelphia. Letters concern family and spiritual matters. Correspondents include Joel and Caroline Cadbury, and their daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Cadbury.

Mary Capper was a birthright Quaker. The daughter of Jasper and Anne Capper, she was born in London in 1795; she later moved to Birmingham. Elizabeth Cadbury was the wife of Richard Tapper Cadbury, employed by Mary's brother Jasper. Joel Cadbury was the son of Richard and Elizabeth, and married Caroline Warder.