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Identifier:SFHL-RG5-276
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Scope and Contents
Her Research Papers consist primarily of the manuscripts and files that assembled in the process of research.
Dates
- 1947-2007
Limitations on Accessing the Collection
Collection is open for research.
Copyright and Rights Information
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Biographical / Historical
Margaret Hope Bacon (1921-2011), born Margaret Hope Borchardt in New York City, earned a bachelor's degree at Antioch College in 1943. Swarthmore College awarded her an honorary doctorate in the 1980s. She joined the Society of Friends in the 1950s and served as Assistant Director of Information Services for the American Friends Service Committee from 1962 until she retired in 1984. She was also a longtime vice president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, was a cofounder of Women's Way, and, with her husband and others, established the Delaware County Fair Housing Council. In 1978, Bacon was honored by the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. She was a T. Wistar Brown Fellow in Quaker studies at Haverford College and a Friend in Residence at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham, England. Her interest in Lucretia Mott also led her to involvement with the preservation of Fair Hill, the burial ground in North Philadelphia where many Hicksite Friends are interred. Margaret Hope Bacon was married to S. Allen Bacon. While raising three children, she wrote freelance articles for national magazines such as Parents and Good Housekeeping, as well as an Evening Bulletin weekly piece titled "Child's Weekend." From 1959 through 2007, Mrs. Bacon published more than a dozen books, including Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott1980), I Speak for My Slave Sister: The Life of Abby Kelley Foster (1974), Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury (1987), and Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (2000).
Extent
8 Linear Feet (18 boxes)
Language
English
Additional Description
Overview
Margaret Hope Bacon was a prolific Quaker author and social activist. Her Research Papers consist primarily of the manuscripts and files assembled in the process of research.
Arrangement
Folder titles and contents have been largely retained as arranged by Margaret Bacon. The collection is divided into seven series:
Physical Location
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog
Custodial History
This collection was given to the Friends Historical Library in three parts. The first consisted of the original manuscript for Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott, originally catalogued as MSS007. The bulk of the collection was donated by Bacon in 2010, shortly before her death.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donor: Gift of Margaret Hope Bacon, 1993, 2010 Donor: Gift of S. Allen Bacon, 2012.034
General
Subjects
- American fiction
- Authors, American -- 20th century
- Cadbury, Henry J. (Henry Joel), 1883-1974
- Coates, Benjamin, 1808-1887
- Douglass, Sarah Mapps, 1806-1882
- Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
- Grimke, Sarah Moore, 1792-1873
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins, 1825-1911
- Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852
- Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880
- Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898
- Quaker women -- Pennsylvania
- Quakers -- Pennsylvania
- Still, William, 1821-1902
Record Groups
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- SFHL/FHL. Friends Historical Library
- SFHL/FHL/RG5. Family and Personal Papers
Administrative Information
- Title
- An Inventory of the Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers, 1947-2007
- Author
- FHL staff
- Date
- 2011
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
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Citation
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[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/276, Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Cite Item Description
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG5/276, Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College https://archives.tricolib.brynmawr.edu//repositories/7/resources/2552 Accessed December 20, 2022.
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