%eadnotat; ]> 5276bacon An Inventory of the Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers, 1947-2007 Finding Aid Prepared by FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2011 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by FHL Staff, 2011 ENG Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers FHL staff Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College. 2011 Descriptive Summary Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers1947-2007 RG 5/276 Bacon, Margaret Hope 15 boxes; 7.5 linear ft. Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College.
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 19081-1399 U.S.A.
For current information on the location of materials, please consult the Library's online catalog 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.

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 BIOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL

Margaret Hope Bacon, born Margaret Hope Borchardt in New York City on April 7, 1921, earned a bachelor's degree at Antioch College in 1943. Swarthmore College awarded her an honorary doctorate in 1981.

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 and 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). She died Feb. 24, 2011, at her home in Crosslands, a Quaker retirement community.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Research Papers consist primarily of the manuscripts and files assembled by Margaret Hope Bacon 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:

Ser.1 Correspondence Ser.2 Manuscripts Ser.3 Speeches Ser.4 Professional Ser.5 Publications Ser.6 Reviews Ser.7 Reference ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION Accession information

Donor: Gift of Margaret Hope Bacon, 1993, 2010

 Access

Collection is open for research.

 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 of 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], RG5/276, Margaret Hope Bacon Research Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

This collection was given to the Friends Historical Library in two 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.

Books and articles that Margaret Bacon either wrote or contributed to:

The Abolitionist sisterhood : women's political culture in Antebellum America /. Ithaca : Cornell University Press ; published in cooperation with the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1994. America's alternative religions /. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995. Back to Africa : Benjamin Coates and the colonization movement in America, 1848-1880 /. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005. For emancipation and education : some black and Quaker efforts, 1680-1900 /. Philadelphia, PA : Awbury Arboretum Association, 1997. Friends in the Delaware Valley : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1681-1981 /. Haverford, Pa. : Friends Historical Association, 1981. Invisible Philadelphia : community through voluntary organizations /. Philadelphia : Atwater Kent Museum, 1995. Living in the light : some Quaker pioneers of the 20th century. Vol. I. In the U.S.A. /. Kennett Square, Pa. (Box 728, Kennett Square 19348) : Friends General Conference and Quaker Publications, 1984. Lucretia Mott. Mount Laurel, NJ : NFL Films Video, 1985. Nine contemporary Quaker women speak /. Kennett Square, Pa. : Quaker Publications, [1989?]. Non-violence, the American tradition part 1. [Philadelphia, Pa.] : SANE Education Fund, [1981?]. Nonviolence in theory and practice /. 2nd [Waveland Press] ed ed. Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, 2005. Quaker crosscurrents : three hundred years of Friends in the New York Yearly Meetings /. 1st ed ed. [Syracuse, N.Y.] : Syracuse University Press, 1995. Wilt thou go on my errand? : journals of three 18th century Quaker women ministers : Susanna Morris, 1682-1755; Elizabeth Hudson, 1722-1783; Ann Moore, 1710-1783 /. Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 1994. American Friends Service Committee. Menus from many lands. [Philadelphia] : American Friends Service Committee, [1967]. Abby Hopper Gibbons : prison reformer and social activist /. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2000. As the way opens : the story of Quaker women in America /. Richmond, Ind. : Friends United Press, 1980. The back bench : a novel /. Philadelphia, Pa. : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2007. Belief into action, action into belief : religious and political aspects of effective peacemaking /. Philadelphia : Wider Quaker Fellowship, 1985. But one race : the life of Robert Purvis /. Albany : State University of New York Press, 2007. Conformers or Transformers? Quakers in the 19th Century. Ithaca, N.Y. : Friends General Conference, 1978. Conformers or transformers : the Quaker reformers. Draft of speech for Friends General Conference, Ithaca, New York, July 1, 1978. [Ithaca, N.Y. : Friends General Conference, 1978]. "The double curse of sex and color" : Robert Purvis and human rights /. Philadelphia, Pa. : Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 1997. Henry J. Cadbury : scholar, activist, disciple /. Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2005. History of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the Relief of Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race /. Philadelphia : Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1959. I speak for my slave sister : the life of Abby Kelley Foster. New York : Crowell, [1974]. In the shadow of William Penn : Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends /. Philadelphia : Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 2001. Lamb's warrior : the life of Isaac T. Hopper /. New York : Thomas Y. Crowell Co., [c1970]. Let this life speak : the legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury /. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1987. Love is the hardest lesson : a memoir /. Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Pubs., 1999. Lucretia Mott: holy obedience and human liberation : a paper to be read at the Symposium on Quaker women, Guilford College, March 16-17-18 [1978]. Lucy McKim Garrison : pioneer in folk music. Millersville, Pa. : Pennsylvania Historical Association, 1987. Mothers of feminism : the story of Quaker women in America / Margaret Hope Bacon. 1st ed ed. San Francisco : Harper & Row, 1986. The night they burned Pennsylvania Hall : a chapter in the struggle for the liberation of slaves and women /. Philadelphia, PA : Friends General Conference, 1992. "One great bundle of humanity": Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (1825-1911) /.; 1989. One woman's passion for peace and freedom : the life of Mildred Scott Olmsted /. 1st ed ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1993. The Quaker struggle for the rights of women /. [Philadelphia : American Friends Service Committee ; 1977]. Quaker women in the peace movement /. The quiet rebels : the story of the Quakers in America /. New York : Basic Books, [1969]. The quiet rebels : the story of the Quakers in America /. Philadelphia, PA : New Society Publishers, 1985. The quiet rebels : the story of the Quakers in America /. Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Pubs., 1999. Rebellion at Christiana. [1st ed.] ed. New York, Crown Publishers, [c1975]. Sarah Mapps Douglass, faithful attender of Quaker Meeting : view from the back bench /. Philadelphia, Pa. : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2003. Valiant Friend : the life of Lucretia Mott /. New York, N.Y. : Walker, 1980. Valiant Friend : the life of Lucretia Mott /. [2nd ed.] ed. Philadelphia, Pa. : Friends General Conference, 1999. Year of grace : a novel /. Philadelphia, Pa. : Quaker Press of Friends General Conference, 2002. Brinton, Howard Haines 1884-1973. Friends for 350 years : the history and beliefs of the Society of Friends since George Fox started the Quaker movement /. Rev. ed. of Friends for 300 years ed. Wallingford, Pa. : Pendle Hill Publications, 2002. Friends Association for Higher Education (U.S.). Conference (13th : 1992 : Bryn Mawr College). Proceedings thirteenth annual conference, Friends Association for Higher Education, June 19-23, 1992, Bryn Mawr [College], Bryn Mawr, PA /. [Greensboro, NC] : Friends Association for Higher Education, 1992. Ham, SÅ k-hÅ n 1901. An anthology of Ham Sok Hon /. Seoul : Samin, 2001. Mott, Lucretia 1793-1880. Lucretia Mott speaking : excerpts from the sermons & speeches of a famous nineteenth century Quaker minister & reformer /. [Wallingford, Pa.] : Pendle Hill, [1980]. Vining, Elizabeth Gray 1902-1999. The Virginia exiles /. 2nd ed ed. Philadelphia, Pa. : Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, 2002. SELECTED SEARCH TERMS Materials catalogued separately

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: Researchers are advised to search by subject and author, when applicable.

Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852 Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893 Mott, Lucretia, 1793-1880 Purvis, Robert, 1810-1898 Quaker women--Pennsylvania Quakers--Pennsylvania American fiction -- Quaker authors Authors, American -- 20th century DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE RECORDS

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

 Ser. 1. Correspondence The Antiochian Spring 2006 1 folder1 As Way Opens Correspondence c. 1978 1 folder1 Cadbury Response Letters 1987-1988, 2001 1 folder1

Includes 2001 letter from Penn saying book was out of stock and out of print.

 Christiana Review Correspondence 1973-1986 1 folder1 Fan Letters 1 folder1 Abby Kelly Foster Correspondence 1969-1977 1 folder1 Mildred Scott Olmsted 1 folder1 Miscellaneous Correspondence 1981-1990 1 folder1 Professional Correspondence 1963-1991 1 folder1 Purvis-General Correspondence 1994-2001 1 folder1 Quiet RebelsCorrespondence, Corrections 1969-1998 1 folder1 Ser. 2. Manuscripts Liberating Woman: The Life of Lucretia Coffin Mott 1 folder1a-2 Brinton Revision (Friends for Three Hundred Years) 1 folder2 Created Equal: Robert Purvis and the Underground Railroad 1 folder2 The Fair Gates 1 folder2 Ser. 3. Speeches Speeches 1995-1996 1 folder2 Nantucket 1980 2000 1 folder2 Mott Speeches 1 folder2 Ser. 4. Professional About Margaret Hope Bacon 1 folder3 Book Promotion 1 folder3 Deals-Oxford University Press 1 folder3

Paperwork related to Bacon's contribution to the Encyclopedia of Women in World History (entry on Lucretia Mott.)

MF Pendle Hill Lecture, Reading List 1 folder3 Mott-Contract, etc 1 folder3 Pendle Hill Course April 2003 1 folder3 Pendle Hill Courses Archives 1 folder3 Purvis Proposal 1 folder3 Purvis-Rights 1 folder3 Writing Quaker Style 2002 1 folder3 Ser. 5 Publications Articles 1 folder4 Book Reviews by Margaret Hope Bacon 1 folder4 Bulletin Inquirer and Daily News 1 folder4 Bulletin Inquirer Features 1957-c.1963 1 folder4 China Articles 1 folder4

Newspaper column written by Margaret Hope Bacon about her experiences as a Quaker during an extended stay in China.

 Clippings 1956-1963 1 folder4 Prints and Reprints 1 folder4 Friends Journal 1 folder4 Friends Journal-Current 1 folder4 Mildred Olmsted-Notable American Women 1 folder4 Nature Column 1 folder4 Pennsylvania Abolition Society-A History 1 folder4 Pennsylvania Legacies Magazine 1 folder4 Parents etc 1947-1953 1 folder5

Articles written for the publication Parents, as well as others, on the subject of child-rearing.

 Reprints 1 folder5 Short Stories 1 folder5 Stories Published 1 folder5

Not a complete file of all published short stories. Bacon's label for the folder says "some missing."

 Ser. 6. Reviews Cadbury Reviews, Response 1 folder3 Abby Hopper 1 folder3 Abby Kelly Foster 1 folder3 Isaac Hopper-Correspondence , Reviews 1 folder3 Love is the Hardest Lesson 1 folder3 Mott Clippings 1 folder3 Mothers of Feminism-Reviews 1 folder3 Mildred Scott Olmstead Reviews 1 folder3 Quiet Rebels-Reviews 1 folder3 Year of Grace Reviews 1 folder3 Ser.7 Reference Centennial Bibliography 1 folder6 Black Americans 1 folder6 Catholic 1 folder6 Centennial General 1 folder6 Centennial of Women's Rights 1 folder6 Coates 1 folder6 Correspondence 1 folder6 Costume 1 folder6 Jewish 1 folder6 Labor 1 folder6 Philadelphia-Centennial Notes 1 folder6 Quakers paper 1 folder6 Sabbath Closing 1 folder6 Women's Position 1 folder6 Garrison Index to Garrison Letters 1 folder7 Hopper-Gibbons Abby H Gibbons Letters 1 folder7 Abby H Gibbons Research 1 folder7 Gibbons Correspondence 1 folder7 Hopper-Gibbons Genealogy 1 folder7 Isaac Hopper Letters 1 folder7 ITH Research Notes 1 folder7 Pictures 1 folder7

Reprints from archival photographs, used by Margaret Hope Bacon for publication.

 Quiet Rebels, Isaac T. Hopper, Abby K. Foster-Christiana PA, Abby Gibbons 1 folder7 Mott Clippings 1 folder8 Female Anti-Slavery Society-Mott 1 folder8 La Mott 1 folder8 Letters 4 folders 1 folder8

4 folders, arranged chronologically, 1841-50, 1851-60, 1861-70, and 1870-80, with copies of Mott's correspondence from archives.

 Mott Photocopies 1 folder8 Mott Music 1 folder8 Mott Pictures 1 folder8 Nantucket 1 folder8 Obituaries 1 folder8 Voice of Peace 1 folder8

References to Mott from the journal Voice of Peace.

 Other 12th Street Monthly Meeting 1 folder9 AFSC Historical 1 folder9

Includes information on conducting interviews, as well as a recording and transcript of an interview with Lilly Pickett.

 Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting 1 folder9 Chester County and the Underground Railroad 1 folder9 Colonization Article 1 folder9 Fair Hill 1 folder9 Fair Hill Pictures 1 folder9

Reprints of archival photographs used by Margaret Hope Bacon for publications.

 FGC-Intervisitation 1 folder9 Franklin Symposium 1 folder9 Friends Neighborhood Guild History 1 folder9 NAW Quaker 1 folder9 PA Abolition Society 1 folder9 PA Abolition Society Historical Material 1 folder9

Applications for the National Park Service's National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

PA Abolition Society Dinner 1 folder9 Pottstown 1 folder10 Prince Edward County 1 folder10 Progressive and Congregational Friends 1 folder10 Quakers and Afro-Americans 1 folder10 Quaker History Notes 1 folder10 Quakers and Indians 1 folder10 Quaker marriage 1 folder10 Quaker Schools and Colleges 1 folder10 Race Street 1 folder10 Radnor 250th 1968 1 folder10 Seneca Falls 1 folder10 Seneca Falls Signers 1 folder10 Purvis Purvis-Acknowledgments 1 folder10 Ann Hathaway Purvis and Marion Purvis 1 folder10 Purvis-Biblio 1 folder10 Black Contemporaries 1 folder10 Purvis-Charles 1 folder10 Purvis-Fair Hill 1 folder11 Purvis Family-Scotland 1 folder11 Purvis-Freeman 1 folder11 Grimke Correspondence 1 folder11 Harriet Miller Obit 1 folder11 Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1 folder11 Purvis-HSP and Penn 1 folder11 John Purvis Correspondence 1 folder11 Purvis-Judah 1 folder11 Purvis-Letters BAP Film 1 folder11 Purvis Letters Misc. 1 folder11 Liberator 1 folder11 Misc. Purvis Notes 1 folder11 Purvis-Mott 1 folder11 NASS (Purvis-Robert) 1 folder11 Purvis Research NY 1 folder11 Purvis-Obituaries 1 folder11 Pennsylvania Abolition Society 1 folder11 Penn State 1 folder11 Purvis-Pitts-S.C. 1 folder11 References-Early 1 folder11 Purvis-South Carolina 1 folder11 Speeches 1 folder11 Purvis-B. Taylor 1 folder11 Purvis-Women's Rights 1 folder11 Purvis-Writings 1 folder11 Women 18th Century Quaker Women 1 folder12 19th Cenury Woman's Journals 1 folder12 19th Century Woman: Meeting 1 folder12 Sarah Allen 1 folder12 Hannah Barnard-Os Cresson 1 folder12 Patience Brayton 1 folder12 British Women in Overseas Ministry 1 folder12 Chester County-Quaker Women 1 folder12 Colonial O.N. M.F. 1 folder12 Phebe Dodge 1 folder12 May Dyer 1 folder12 Early Women's Meetings 1 folder12 Margaret Ellis 1 folder12 Eliza Farnham 1 folder12 FGC and Suffrage 1 folder12 Biographies-Mary Fisher 1 folder12 Fox and Fell M of F 1 folder12 Lucy Mokim Garrison 1 folder12 Sarah Harrison 1 folder13 Rachel Hicks 1 folder13 Elizabeth Hudson 1 folder13 Rebecca Jones 1 folder13 Graceanna Lewis 1 folder13 London and Ireland Women's Meeting 1 folder13 London Women's Yearly Meeting 1789 1 folder13 Ann Moore 1 folder13 Tabitha R. Moore (Esther) 1 folder13 Susanna Morris 1 folder13 Mothers of Feminism Pictures 1 folder13 Mothers of Feminism Background 1 folder13 The Blackwell Family, Carrie Chapman Catt, and the National American Woman Suffrage Assoc. 1 folder14

A register of their papers in the Library of Congress.

New York Women's Yearly Meeting 1 folder14 New York Yearly Meeting Women 1 folder14 Non Resistance 1 folder14 Non Violence and Suffrage 1 folder14 Olmsted Pictures 1 folder14

Reprints from archival photographs, used by Margaret Hope Bacon for publication.

 Alice Paul 1 folder14 Alice Paul-Suffragists (Quaker) 1 folder14 Phoebe Speakman / Rebecca Wright 1 folder14 Position of Woman 1878 1 folder14 Ann Preston 1 folder14 PYM-Women's YM 1 folder14 Quaker Women Abolitionists 1 folder15 Quaker Women on the Frontier 1 folder15 Quaker Women-Misc. 1 folder15 Quaker Women as Professional Pioneers 1 folder15 Quaker Woman in Puritan England 1 folder15 Quaker Women and Race 1 folder15 Quaker Women Reformers 1 folder15 Quaker Women Today 1 folder15 Seneca Falls 1998 1 folder15

Clippings on Seneca Falls' increased celebration of its heritage.

 May Swatt 1 folder15 Traveling Quaker Women Ministers 1 folder15 Laura Towne 1 folder15 Priscilla Townsend 1 folder15 Elizabeth Vining 1 folder15 Amanda Way 1 folder15 Elizabeth Webb 1 folder15 Women's Rights-Mother's Day 1 folder15 Women's Yearly Meeting MD NO 1 folder15 West Chester Convention 1850 1 folder15 Frances Wright 1 folder15 Yearly Meeting-Western, Iowa 1 folder15