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Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Horace Mather Lippincott (1877-1967) was a Quaker editor and historian. Collection contains his published and manuscript writings on topics primarily concerning the Society of Friends. Of particular interest is the scrapbook he compiled in 1946 of papers and photographs of the 1913-14 Joint Group which met weekly to study the Separation in the Society of Friends, along with other papers on the topic and on the first joint meeting of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings in 1946.

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL NOTE

Horace Mather Lippincott was a Quaker editor and historian. He was born on April 20, 1877, and died January 12, 1967. A birthright Hicksite Quaker, he was the only child of Philadelphia lumber merchant Robert C. Lippincott and Cynthia Shoemaker Mather Lippincott. He was descended from Joseph Mather who arrived in America in 1682 on the ship "Submission." Horace Lippincott graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1897 and was involved in alumni activities. In 1914 he married Sarah Jenkins at Gwynedd meeting house. Their son, H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., is a prominent Philadelphia architect.

Horace Lippincott was a member of Green Street Monthly Meeting and, subsequently, Abington Monthly Meeting. Not afraid of controversy, he was a supporter of the U.S. involvement in the First World War and worked towards re-unification in the Society of Friends.

SCOPE AND CONTENT OF THE RECORDS

Contains published and manuscript writings by Horace Mather Lippincott on topics primarily concerning the Society of Friends. Of particular interest is the scrapbook he compiled in 1946 of papers and photographs of the 1913-14 Joint Group which met weekly to study the Separation in the Society of Friends, along with other papers on the topic and on the first joint meeting of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings in 1946. It includes an essay by Henry J. Cadbury titled "Theology in Quakerism, Present, Past, & Future."

Organization: Papers are bound in five volumes.

 ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: H. Mather Lippincott, Jr., 2000 (Accession number: 2000-055)

 Access

Collection is open for research.

A searching time for Quakers : Being a miscellany / collected by Horace Mather Lippincott, 1945 and The struggle for a union of Philadelphia Friends, 1946, also catalogued in FHL books.

 Use Restrictions

Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.

 Preferred Citation

[Indicate the cited item or series here], Horace Mather Lippincott Papers, RG5/251, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

 Abington Friends meeting & school 1682-1949,[n.p., 1949] An account of the people called Quakers, in Germantown, Philadelphia, 1923. The colonial homes of Philadelphia and its neighborhood / by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and Horace Mather Lippincott ; with 72 illustrations. 1912 Early Philadelphia : its people, life and progress, 1917 George Fox : a pageant. Ten episodes in the life of the founder of Quakerism to commemorate the three hundredth anniversary of his birth. 1624-1924 [1924] A history of the Germantown Academy, 1910, 1935 A history of the Philadelphia Cricket Club, 1854-1954, 1954 The Mather family of Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, 1910 A narrative of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia : with some account of Springfield, Whitemarsh and Cheltenham townships in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, c1948 Philadelphia, c1926 A portraiture of the people called Quakers : Being rare portraits ... of the most distinguished members of Society ... together with some account of their public service, 1915 Quaker meeting houses, and a little humor, 1952 Processing information

The collection was sorted and cleaned. Duplicate publications were added to FHL duplicates. Minutes from Media Monthly Meeting Long-range Planning Committee from the 1970s were transferred to RG 2 Media Monthly Meeting. Minutes of the Friends Social Union (H. Mather Lippincott, Jr.. was president of the organization 1970-1972) were added to RG 4/039. Historic Structures Report, the Richard Wall House, 1981, and The Jenkins Town Lyceum added to FHL books. Whittier House memorabilia (contents of cornerstone salvaged by HML just before demolished for Friends Center-contained sampling of newspapers, publications, deeds, architectural plans, etc., 1913) added to RG 4/058, Philadelphia Young Friends Association.

 SELECTED SEARCH TERMS DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Friends Historical Library (TRIPOD). Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings:

Lippincott, Horace Mather, 1877-1967 Quaker Authors -- 20th century Church controversies -- Society of Friends Society of Friends -- Pennsylvania Society of Friends -- Hicksite separation Society of Friends -- Reunification Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- 20th century Cadbury, Henry Joel, 1883- DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:

 Addresses, Vol. 1 1927-1938 1 bound volume1

Typed mss, bound, of speeches and writing by HML, includes "A Reasonable Faith" (1936), talks before the Friends Historical Association, clippings and speech concerning Abington MM 250th anniversary (1933) Read before various groups including FHA.

 Addresses, Vol. 2 1923-1944 1 bound volume2

Typed bound manuscripts of speeches read before various groups such as the Antiquarian Society, Old York Road Historical Association, copy of a letter to his son urging him not to participate in WWII, etc.

 Educational Ferment 1942-1945 1 bound volume3

Bound editorials by HML appearing in the General Magazine of Historical Chronicles," Univ. of Pennsylvania.

He was editor of the publication 1912-1945 and received an honorary MA from Penn in 1940.

 A Searching Time for Quakers 1945 1 bound volume4

A "miscellany" compiled by HML and privately published. Reviews are pasted into the front and back cover leafs.

 The Separation of 1827 and The Struggle for a Union of Philadelphia Friends5 1946 1 bound volume

HML's album relating to the 1913-14 Joint Group which met weekly to study the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation and re-unification effort. Includes an essay by Henry J. Cadbury titled "Theology in Quakerism, Present, Past, & Future," photos of the Joint Group, and related papers concerning the first General Meeting in 1946 of the two Philadelphia Yearly Meetings.