Cope-Evans family papers, 1732-1911.

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Cope-Evans family papers, 1732-1911.

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Letters; also marriage certificates, photographs, friendship book, estate related papers and account books, computer disks and other papers of the Quaker families Cope and Evans of Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.). Bulk of collection consists of approx. 2,600 letters chiefly between family members. Letters discuss family, friends and home life, reflecting the social environment of relatively well-to-do Quaker families: letters of Mary Cope (1766-1825) to her children at Westtown Boarding School contain spiritual and practical advice; also letters from school by Henry, Francis and William D. Cope to parents; later letters of brothers Henry, Alfred and William D. Cope discuss family shipping firm begun by father Thomas P. Cope and family land interests in Susquehanna County (Pa.); letters of sisters Clementine, Caroline and Annette Cope include travel letters from Europe, Clementine Cope's letters also include those written while teaching at a Freedmen's Association School in Baltimore (1865). Letters of Francis R. Cope (1821-1909) and Thomas P. Cope (1823-1900) while at Haverford College (1835-1838); letters of Anna S. and Francis R. Cope discuss home life, children, family and friends' activities; letters of Francis R. Cope also discuss his travel in Virginia after the Civil War (1866) for Freedmen's Relief Association; letters of Elizabeth S. Cope discuss family, travel news; letters of Rachel C. and Jonathan Evans discuss children, family and health concerns, including daughter Anna Cope Evans' treatment and recovery from nervous breakdown (1900); also 14 letters (1901) of Anna Cope Evans (b. 1875) from "Bournewood" (Bournewood Hospital for Mental Diseases, Brookline, Mass.); other families represented include Brown, Drinker and Haines. Also marriage certificates (1759-1847); copies of photographs (Hartshorne, Yarnall and other families); friendship book of Francis R. Cope while at Haverford College; Thomas Evans (1798-1868) estate papers and account books; computer disks of index to letters.

ca. 2, 944 items (16 boxes)

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Westtown Boarding School

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Cope, Annette, 1843-1916.

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Cope, Caroline E. (Caroline Elizabeth), 1840-1944.

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Cope, William D. (William Drinker), 1798-1873

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Evans, Thomas, 1798-1868

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Evans, Rachel Reeve Cope, 1850-1939

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Evans family.

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Drinker family.

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Cope, Alfred, 1806-1875

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Cope, Thomas Pim, 1823-1900

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Thomas P. Cope traveled to Norway in June of 1889. From the description of Extracts from the letters of Thomas P. Cope, 1889. circa 1900-1923. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 310102173 ...

Hartshorne family.

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Cope family.

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Yarnall family.

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Cope, Francis Reeve, 1821-

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Cope, Thomas P. (Thomas Pim), 1768-1854

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Founder of packet ship line in 1821 that sailed from Philadelphia to Liverpool; Cope travelled from Philadelphia to Niagara Falls, Montreal, and Quebec with his son Alfred on July 12, 1820, visiting Nantucket from Sept. 9-15, 1820. From the description of Thomas Pym Cope diary/J. Morris Evans collection, 1820 Sept. 9-15. (Nantucket Hist Association). WorldCat record id: 70953345 William Carvill was Haverford College's first landscape architect. Jonathan Richards was principa...

Cope, Anna Stewardson, 1822-1916

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Cope, Henry, 1793-1865

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Cope, Francis, 1794-1816

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Haynes family.

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Cope, Elizabeth Stewardson, 1848-1937.

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Evans, Jonathan, 1843-1911

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Brown family.

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Cope, Clementine, 1835-1903.

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Haverford college

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Haverford College was founded in 1833 as a Quaker school for boys. Today it is a coeducational, non-sectarian college applying the Quaker values of consensus and honor code. From the description of Archival records, 1831-[ongoing]. (Haverford College Library). WorldCat record id: 60246925 ...

Cope, Mary, 1766-1825.

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