Bacon, Margaret Hope. Henry J. Cadbury papers 1866-1987.
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Henry J. Cadbury papers 1866-1987.
This collection of materials by and about Henry Cadbury (1883-1974) contains information about his extended family, including the Cadbury, Head, Kaign, Shinn and Warder families consisting of charts and notes. Biographically, there is information on his academic degrees and awards and miscellaneous materials, such as his passports, his certificate of identity as Relief Commissioner for the American Friends Service Committee, ca. 1920, and biographical sketches of him as well as memorial minutes at the time of his death. The correspondence series opens with letters written by Cadbury as a youth to his family beginning in 1892, then as a college and graduate student and newly-minted teacher. A number of letters were written while he was on vacation in Switzerland in 1912. A significant group of letters was written by him when he served as Relief Commissioner for the AFSC in Germany in 1920, reporting on the work and AFSC personnel involved in relief operations, as well as on people he met. By this time, his letters were also directed to his wife of four years, Lydia Caroline Brown Cadbury. The period of his letter writing jumps to 1940 and then spans until his death in 1974. The section of correspondence containing letters written to Henry Cadbury is arranged alphabetically and includes a group of very full letters from Lydia Cadbury, as well as by a number of people at Haverford College on library issues and from Haverford Pres. John Coleman wishing to celebrate Cadbury's 93rd birthday at the college. While there are many other letter writers, some names include: Anna Brinton, Howard Brinton, John Nickalls, Norman Penney and Douglas Steere. There is a small group of diaries (1896-1898), notes on topics of interest to Cadbury and text for a few speeches he made between 1944-1974, and the text of lectures he gave at Pendle Hill, an adult study center in Wallingford, Pa. in 1954. The greatest part of this collection includes actual writings by Henry Cadbury, including annotated galleys and page proofs for The Book of Acts in History, his "History of Quakers in Jamaica" and "Negro Membership in the Society of Friends," "New Light from Old Scrolls" from his work on the Dead Sea scrolls and others. Another series is devoted to materials collected by Margaret Hope Bacon toward her biography of Henry Cadbury, Let This Life Speak. Another series consists of photographs, primarily of Cadbury from youth to old age, as well as of members of his family, and groups of which he was a part, such as Westtown School and Haverford College, and a sizable number taken during his vacation in Switzerland in 1912. There are also photographs of other Cadbury family members, as well as members of the Balderston, Brown, Canby, Carter, Gibbins, Roudolph, Shinn, Shipley, Troth and Winterbottom families. The collection concludes with an alphabetized list of writers of letters of sympathy on the death of Henry Cadbury to Lydia Cadbury in 1974-75.
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14 boxes (7 linear feet)
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