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1858 August 4, to Ruth Anna Cope
Title:
1858 August 4, to Ruth Anna Cope
Date:
1858-08-04
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1905, Itinerary of European Trip of E.W. & E.M. Evans--Summer 1905
Title:
1905, Itinerary of European Trip of E.W. & E.M. Evans--Summer 1905
Description:
Lists dates for scheduled stops on Ernest and Edward's Europe trip, June through September, 1905.
Date:
1905-03-19
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1878 June 28, Sunnyside, Mayfield, near Ashbourne, England, to My dear Friend
Title:
1878 June 28, to My dear Friend
Description:
The Cathedral of the Grand Duke’s Palace has been called by several names during its long history. It is now known as the Palazzo della Signoria and serves as the town hall of Florence as well as a museum. John of Bologna’s masterpiece is held to be his bronze engraving of Mercury . “Angelo’s Night and Day, ” to which Joseph Simpson refers in the letter, are likely Michelangelo’s sculptures of Twilight and Dawn (completed in 1534) in the Medici Chapel in the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence . From Christopher Hibbert, Florence: The Biography of a City (New York: Norton, 1993) and Michael Levey, Florence: A Portrait (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996) . Additional information from J. R. Hale, ed., The Italian Journal of Samuel Rogers (London: Faber & Faber, 1956).
Date:
1878-06-28
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
1894 August 18, Paris, to Mother, Dimock
Title:
1894 August 18, Dimock
Date:
1894-08-18
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1880[?] July 27, Chemin de la Tours, to My dear Lil
Title:
1880[?] July 27, to My dear Lil
Date:
1880-07-27
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1907 August, Itinerary H. Evans
Title:
1907 August, Itinerary H. Evans
Date:
1907-08-01
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1869 September 29, Awbury, to Mother
Title:
1869 September 29, to Mother
Date:
1869-09-29
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers
1905 August 25, Franconia, to Dearest Mother
Title:
1905 August 25, to Dearest Mother
Date:
1905-08-25
Collection:
Cope Evans Family Papers