Papers of Harry Garland Timbres and Rebecca Timbres Clark, 1936-1974.

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Papers of Harry Garland Timbres and Rebecca Timbres Clark, 1936-1974.

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Collection consists of the letters of Rebecca Timbres from 1936-1937 and Harry Timbres in 1936, she writing to family members, he primarily to his wife, but also to his daughters. Both their letters depict life in the Soviet Union in the mid-1930s and tell of their work; other letters, as from J. Barnard Walton explaining the creation of copies of Harry Timbres' letters; a 1974 biography of Harry Garland Timbres by Rebecca J. Timbres, included with the biography are copies of letters to Harry or Rebecca from such people as Rabindranath Tagore; poems by Harry G. Timbres. There are also 2 photographs of Harry Timbres.

1 folder (ca. 40 items) ; 16 cm.

Haverford College Library

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Haverford College Library

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Walton, J. Barnard (Joseph Barnard), 1885-1963

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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...

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 ...