E. Newbold Cooper collection/Margaret Hawkins collection, 1820-1979.

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E. Newbold Cooper collection/Margaret Hawkins collection, 1820-1979.

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Principal authors in the E. Newbold Cooper Collection are E. Newbold Cooper (1898-1957) and Dorothy Nyhart Cooper (1898-1990). The former's correpondents include: Werner Eichholz, Dwight D. Eisenhower, August Lorey and Paul Schulz. Of especially significant content are the Lorey letters written from Germany offering a view of Nazi and post-World War II Germany. Cooper's papers also include a diary of a trip in 1925, including to Woodbrooke, a Quaker Study Center, papers relating to his tenure at Girard College, poems, speeches and biographical information. Dorothy Cooper's papers include correspondence and other papers relating to her family, career and activities. The collection also includes the papers of other family members including: Anne Cooper Leuiken, E. Newbold Cooper, Jr., Edwin K. Cooper, Ella S. Wills Cooper, Rachel Cooper and Rebecca Cooper, Susan Richardson, Ann Wills and Hannah Wills. Among these papers are 2 diaries of Rebecca Cooper, a commonplace book of Susan Richardson with some text written by S(arah) M(oore) Grimké, also commonplace books belonging to Ann Wills and Hannah Wills. In addition, there are photographs of the Cooper/Nyhart families. The Margaret Hawkins Collection is comprised of the papers of Albert Lamborn Green and letters of Lydia Sharpless Green Hawkins, Alfred Hawkins, Sarah Sharpless Green and Jonathan Pierce as well as genealogical information on the Green, Hawkins, Lamborn and Sharpless families.

9 boxes 4.5 linear ft.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

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Grimké, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873

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Richardson, Susan.

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Green, Albert Lamborn, 1845-1947

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Wills, Ann.

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Hawkins, Alfred, 1858-1934.

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Cooper, Dorothy Nyhart, 1898-1990.

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Hawkins family.

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Cooper, Rachel.

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Cooper, Ella S. Wills, 1866-1934.

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Hawkins, Margaret.

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Cooper, Rebecca A. Kirkwood, 1816-

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Lorey, August Louis.

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Green, Sarah Sharpless, 1819-1915

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Sarah Sharpless was born a Quaker in 1819, the daughter of Samuel and Ruth Iddings Sharpless. She married William Lamborn Green in 1844. Their daughter Sadie, a graduate of Swarthmore College, married Jonathan Pierce in 1886. Sarah Sharpless died in 1915. From the description of Family Papers, 1825-1912. (Swarthmore College). WorldCat record id: 31403548 ...

Wills, Hannah.

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Cooper, E. Newbold (Edwin Newbold), 1898-1957.

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Eicholz, Werner.

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Cooper, Edwin K., 1855-

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Cooper, E. Newbold (Edwin Newbold), 1926-

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Cooper family.

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Hawkins, Lydia Sharpless Green, 1862-1950.

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Pierce, Jonathan

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Wills family.

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Green family.

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Schulz, Paul.

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