Papers, 1920-1975.

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Papers, 1920-1975.

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Correspondence, journals (1921-22), biographical data, articles, speeches, reviews, poetry, pictures, and memorabilia, relating chiefly to relief work in eastern Europe, and especially Poland and Russia, undertaken by Clark and her first husband, Harry Garland Timbres, a Quaker physician, under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee, but also relating to Clark's later medical and social work in India, where she served in a school founded by Rabindranath Tagore, and in Hawaii. Correspondents include Charles Freer Andrews and Horace Alexander.

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Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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Timbres, Harry, 1899-1937

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Harry and Rebecca Timbres were Quaker relief workers in India and Eastern Europe, especially Russia, under the auspices of the American Friends Service Committee for periods in the 1920s and 1930s. Harry Timbres was a graduate of Haverford College, class of 1921, and M.D., Johns Hopkins, 1928. Rebecca Timbres was a graduate of Teachers' College, Columbia University, 1918, and of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in 1920. They married in 1922. Harry Timbres died in Russia of typhus in 1...

Alexander, Horace Gundry, 1889-1989

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Horace G. Alexander; b. 1889 in Croyden, England; life-long member of the Society of Friends (Quakers); graduated with honors in history from Kings College, Cambridge University; director of Woodbrooke College, Birmingham, England; served as advisor to Mohandas K. Gandhi; wrote and published extensively about India; worked throughout the world for Indian rights; d. 1989, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. From the description of Papers, 1916-1983. (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). ...

American friends service committee

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Quaker organization formed to promote peace and reconciliation through its social service and relief programs. From the description of American Friends Service Committee records, 1933-1988 (bulk 1933-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70983753 The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) was organized in June 1917 as an outgrowth of and coordination point for the anti-war and relief activities of various bodies of the Religious Society of Friends in the United States. A ...

Tagore, Rabì‚ndranà‚th, 1861-1941

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Rabindranath Tagore was born in Calcutta on 6 May 1861. After his marriage in 1883, Tagore managed the family estates at Shileida, where he wrote many of his works. In 1901 he founded a school at Santiniketan, Bopur, Bengal, which later became the international institution, Visva-Bharati. In 1912 he visited England and translated some of his works into English. He also made visits to countries in Europe, Asia and North and South America. In 1913 he received the Nobel Prize for literature. At the...

Timbres, Rebecca

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Quaker nurse and social worker. From the description of Papers, 1920-1975. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 28142503 ...

Andrews, C. F. (Charles Freer), 1871-1940

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British Missionary in India. From the description of Letter : London, to Laurence Housman, [193-] Aug. 28. (Bryn Mawr College). WorldCat record id: 25374712 1896-1899 missioner with the Pembroke College mission at Stoke Newington; 1900 fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge; 1904 joined the Cambridge Brotherhood, Delhi; 1908 fellow of Punjab University; 1913 joined Rabindranath Tagore's Institution at Santiniketan; 1914 went to South Africa to help bring about th...