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1902 January 17, Sunnyside, to my dear Elizabeth
Title:
1902 January 17, to my dear Elizabeth
Description:
Stationary print reads "SUNNYSIDE, Mayfield, Ashbourne."
Date:
1902-01-17
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1877 June 26, Awbury, to Sisters
Title:
1877 June 26, to Sisters
Date:
1877-06-26
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1909 August 15, Jamestown, to My beloved Father and Mother
Title:
1909 August 15, to My beloved Father and Mother
Date:
1909-08-15
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1899 October 16, Awbury, to Well! here we are...
Title:
1899 October 16, to Well! here we are...
Date:
1899-10-16
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1894 November 16, Sunnyside, Mayfield, Ashbourne, to My dear Friend
Title:
1894 November 16, to My dear Friend
Description:
The workpeople that Joseph Simpson mentions in his letter are likely the people working at his spinning mill at Mayfield. Joseph and his brother revived the ailing mill and built housing and reading rooms for their workers, gradually improving relations between the workers and themselves and increasing the mill’s profitability. From the Dictionary of Quaker Biography . The “bairns” of whom Joseph sends good news are likely his children Agnes Alderson Simpson (b. 1871), Sara Mildred Simpson (b. 1874), and Joseph Simpson (b. 1875/6) . Francis Reeve Cope sent the following book to Joseph: John Torrey Morse, Jr....Abraham Lincoln. Volumes 25 and 26 in the American Statesman Series. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, first published 1893 . Awbury is the family enclave of the Cope and Evans families and their relations, located in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and founded by Henry Cope.
Date:
1894-11-16
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1876 August 16, Sunnyside, Mayfield, near Ashbourne, to My dear Friend
Title:
1876 August 16, to My dear Friend
Description:
The “little stranger” mentioned in the letter may be the Simpson's third child, Joseph. Although his birth date is listed in the Dictionary of Quaker Biography as August 13, 1875, this letter indicates that he was born in 1876 . The watermark is illegible.
Date:
1876-08-16
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers