Papers, 1886-1943.

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Papers, 1886-1943.

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The material consists of incoming and outgoing personal correspondence, papers from organizations to which Miss Kane belonged or contributed, personal memorabilia and other miscellany, and the manuscript writings of sister Anne Francis (Nancy) Kane. Florence Bayard Kane's outgoing correspondence consists primarily of letters, 1886-1895, to her mother, Mabel Bayard Kane Bird, and letters, 1899-1909, to members of her family while on various trips abroad. The latter include her reports on the Messina, Sicily, earthquake of December, 1908, and her role in rendering nursing assistance to the victims, for which the Italian Government awarded her a medal. The bulk of the collection consists of incoming personal correspondence, 1886-1943, along with some draft replies by Miss Kane. Principal correspondents are various family members, including several generations of siblings, cousins and nieces: sisters Jean Duval Leiper Kane Foulke, Elizabeth Bayard Kane Norris Rhein, Anne Francis (Nancy) Kane and brother J[ames] A[shton] Bayard Kane; cousins Eliza Middleton Kane Cope, with whom Miss Kane often made her home, Francis Fisher Kane, Philadelphia lawyer and U.S. attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania from 1913 to 1920, Elisha Kent Kane, prohibition advocate, and Helen Hamilton Shields Stockton; nieces Jean Kane Foulke DuPont and Florence Foulke Bird. Additionally, there are letters from various friends, particularly: Langdon Elwyn Mitchell, playwright; Mary Moss, author and travelling companion of Miss Kane, who was with her at the time of the Sicilian earthquake; Maria Lansdale, with whom Florence often lived in Philadelphia; Etta de Vitti, Marchese de Vitti de Marco at whose home Florence often stayed while in Italy; Mary Sterrett Gittings, an old Baltimore friend; Emily Hobhouse, outspoken English opponent of the Boer War and pacifist in WWI; Margaret Munro Elder Dow, author and biographer of Elisha Kent Kane: Sarah Northcliff Cleghorne, author and poet. For Miss Kane's flirtation with a librarian's career the correspondence 1897-1903 includes letters from Bryn Mawr College President M. Carey Thomas. Letters to Florence at the time of the Messina earthquake, 1909, concern the supply and use of financial aid provided by her family and friends in America. Florence's interest in prison reform is evident from letters of penologist Thomas Mott Osborne, 1914-1918, and others. Miss Kane worked sporadically for a number of years organizing the papers of the Wister family, and Owen Wister, author, wrote her on this and other subjects, 1913-1935. The miscellaneous section contains solicitations, acknowledgements, newsletters, and flyers of various conservation, philanthropic, civic, and international organizations; pamphlets, articles, clippings; collected poems and quotations, receipted bills, medical prescriptions, addresses; photographs. Florence's sister, Anne Francis (Nancy) Kane, aspired to a literary career. Her death at age 24 was much lamented by family and friends, especially Langdon Elwyn Mitchell who was to become a noted playwright. A group of Nancy Kane's manuscripts are interspersed with Mitchell's translations and some writings.

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Wister, Owen, 1860-1938

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Epithet: American author British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000497.0x000028 Born in Pennsylvania, raised in South Carolina, and educated at Harvard, Owen Wister travelled in the Western U.S. as a young man. Although he returned to the East and Harvard law school, he acted upon a friend's suggestion and began writing thrilling Western stories for Harper's. His well-researched stories, particularly The Virginian, he...

Thomas, M. Carey (Martha Carey), 1857-1935

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DuPont, Jean Kane Foulke, b. 1891.

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Rhein, Elizabeth Bayard Kane Norris, 1870-1946

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Bryn Mawr college

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Cope, Eliza Middleton Kane, approximately 1862-1952

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Osborne, Thomas Mott, 1859-1926

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Moss, Mary, 1864-1914

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Gittings, Mary Sterrett, -1943

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Hobhouse, Emily, 1860-1926

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Epithet: philanthropist, sister of Prof L T Hobhouse British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x0001f0 Epithet: niece of Arthur, Baron Hobhouse British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000626.0x00013a Epithet: of Add MS 46067 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_1000000006...

Mitchell, Langdon Elwyn, 1862-1935

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Mitchell wrote the plays "Becky Sharp" and "The New York Idea" among many others. From the description of Papers, 1890-1934. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 31178976 Langdon Elwyn Mitchell (1862-1935), American poet and playwright, used the pseudonym John Philip Varley. His best-known plays were Becky Sharp (1899) and The New York Idea (1906). He taught playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania from 1928 to 1930. His father was S. W...

Dow, Margaret Muro Elder.

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Lansdale, Maria H. d, 1943.

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Kane, Francis Fisher, 1866-1955.

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Francis Fisher Kane was a Philadelphia lawyer and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1913-1920. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1880s]-1955. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122489491 ...

Bird, Florence Foulke, approximately 1900-approximately 1943

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Stockton, Helen Hamilton Shields, 1864-1949

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Genealogist, of Princeton, NJ. From the description of Some descendents of John Witherspoon who lived in Princeton one hundred years ago, [19--]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965443 Genealogist, of Princeton, N.J. From the description of Papers, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70966894 From the description of Correspondence, 1929-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70965454 From the description of Woodruffs and the Woodruff House, now ...

Cleghorn, Sarah Northcliffe, 1876-1959.

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Browne, Jean Duval Leiper Kane, 1867-approximately 1944

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Kane, Anne Francis, 1864-1888

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Foulke, Jean Duval Leiper Kane, 1867-approximately 1944

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Kane, Elisha Kent, 1856-1935

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Biography Arctic explorer, surgeon, naval officer, and author. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; educated at the Universities of Virginia and Pennsylvania. He received his doctor of medicine in 1843. Kane travelled abroad extensively, explored the Arctic, and was a member of the Second Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic, 1854-1855. He died in Havana 16 Feburary 1857. From the guide to the Elisha Kent Kane Papers, 1825-1855, (Stan...

Norris, Elizabeth Bayard Kane, 1837-1897.

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Kane, James Ashton Bayard, 1871-1937

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Kane, Florence Bayard, 1868-1943

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Florence Bayard Kane, member of the prominent Kane family of Pennsylvania, was a Philadelphia volunteer worker and much travelled individual who briefly worked as a librarian and as a processor of manuscripts. She was a woman of many associations and activities, but withal a woman whose life was peripatetic and unfocussed. From the description of Papers, 1886-1943. (Historical Society of Pennsylvania). WorldCat record id: 151372098 ...

Bird, Mabel Bayard Kane, 1837-1897

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