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Henry J. Cadbury Papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Finding Aid Prepared by Diana Franzusoff Peterson Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Finding aid prepared by Diana Franzusoff Peterson This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit July 23, 2012 Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections 370 Lancaster Ave Haverford, PA, 19041 610-896-1161 [email protected] Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Table of Contents Summary Information ................................................................................................................................. 4 History............................................................................................................................................................7 Resigns Post...................................................................................................................................................8 `All Want Peace'............................................................................................................................................9 Scope and Contents note............................................................................................................................. 10 Scope and Content.......................................................................................................................................10 Arrangement.................................................................................................................................................11 Administrative Information .......................................................................................................................11 Related Materials ...................................................................................................................................... 12 Controlled Access Headings........................................................................................................................12 General note.................................................................................................................................................13 General note.................................................................................................................................................13 General note.................................................................................................................................................13 Collection Inventory.................................................................................................................................... 14 Audio tapes made at Pendle Hill Monday Evening Lectures............................................................... 14 Articles................................................................................................................................................... 18 Narrative Papers of George Fox............................................................................................................62 Bible Course Notes................................................................................................................................66 Correspondence......................................................................................................................................66 Lectures:...............................................................................................................................................140 Miscellaneous.......................................................................................................................................145 Papers................................................................................................................................................... 147 Additions.............................................................................................................................................. 154 Items removed from collection no. 1121:...........................................................................................157 - Page 2 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Papers at Swarthmore College Peace Collection................................................................................ 160 - Page 3 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Summary Information Repository Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections Creator Benson, Lewis Creator Bowen, Catherine Drinker, 1897-1973 Creator Brinton, Howard H. (Howard Haines), 1884-1973 Creator Cadbury, Henry Joel, 1883-1974 Creator Comfort, William Wistar, 1874-1955 Creator Foulds, Elfrida Vipont, 1902- Creator Goodbody, Olive C. Creator Grubb, Isabel, 1881?-1972 Creator Hicks, Muriel, fl. 1956-1966 Creator Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863-1948 Creator Lloyd, Arnold Creator Milligan, Edward H., (Edward Hyslop) Creator Mortimer, Russell Creator Moulton, Phillips P., 1909- Creator Nickalls, John L. - Page 4 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Creator Nuttall, Geoffrey F. (Geoffrey Fillingham), 1911-2007 Creator Penney, Norman, 1858-1933 Creator Pickett, Clarence, 1884-1965 Creator Ross, Isabel Creator Sellers, Charles Coleman, 1903-1980 Creator Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941 Creator White, Gilbert F. Title Henry J. Cadbury papers Date 1910-1974 Extent 30.0 Linear feet 60 boxes, 15,000 items General Physical 60 document boxes (30 linear ft., ca. 15,000 items Description note Language English Abstract Papers of the notable Quaker Biblical scholar Henry J. Cadbury (1883-1974), a founder of the American Friends Service Committee and Nobel Prize winner on behalf of the American Friends Service Committee. Cadbury taught at Haverford (1910-1919 and 1954-1963) and Bryn Mawr Colleges as well as Harvard Divinity School as Hollis professor of divinity. Preferred Citation note - Page 5 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 Haverford College Library, Haverford, PA, Special Collections, Quaker Collection, Henry J. Cadbury papers, Coll. No. 1121 - Page 6 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 History The following is copied from an article by Steve Neal which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer of October 9, 1974, at the time of Henry Cadbury's death: Dr. Henry Joel Cadbury, one of America's most distinguished biblical scholars and a founder of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), died Monday evening in Bryn Mawr Hospital. He was 90. According to a family spokesman, Dr. Cadbury suffered a concussion after falling down a stairway in his home at 774 Milbrook Lane, Haverford, earlier in the day. He never regained consciousness. Most of Dr. Cadbury's long life was devoted to humanitarian causes. As a leader of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), he made significant contributions to the American peace movement and in 1947 accepted the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of that organization. The American Friends Service Committee was proposed by Dr. Cadbury during a peace conference at Winona Lake, Ind., in 1915. His idea resurfaced two years later when the United States entered World War I. Although the Quakers opposed the war, they found, according to one historian, that "...they had become too sophisticated to explain and justify this opposition in the simple terms of their forefathers. They could no longer be simply against the use of violence, they must be for a society which was nonviolently ordered throughout its structure. They needed, in the terms of William James, to find a moral equivalent to war." The AFSC was organized in April of 1917 to offer Quakers and young conscientious objectors "a service of love in wartime." Dr. Cadbury, for some months, functioned as its chief executive with the help of one secretary. It soon established relief activities in France, Germany, Russia, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, and Austria. At war's end, the AFSC began helping in Europe's reconstruction. Dr. Cadbury organized the feeding of 1 million German children a day during the summer of 1920. Dr. Cadbury was born in Philadelphia on Dec. 1, 1883, the son of Joel and Anna Kaighn Cadbury. He was graduated from Haverford College in 1903, then attended Harvard University where he received his Ph.D. He returned to Haverford to teach biblical literature in 1910. Dr. Cadbury generally was regarded as a rising young professor until, in the fall of 1918, he spoke out against anti-German prejudices. Americans, Dr. Cadbury charged, were carrying on an "orgy of hate" against Germans. He said that "never in the history of his greatest arrogance did the Kaiser utter more heathenish and bloodthirsty sentiments than those now current in some quarters of this country." His statement made him a controversial figure. A large group of Haverford alumni demanded his resignation. Newspapers charged that Dr. Cadbury was a German dupe. And the U.S. attorney's office - Page 7 - Henry J. Cadbury papers, 1910-1974 HC.Coll.1121 threatened to arrest him on sedition charges. When Dr. Cadbury explained his views to U.S. Attorney Francis Fisher Kane, the prosecutor dropped his case. Resigns Post But Dr. Cadbury, still under fire at Haverford, resigned his teaching position. While college administrators said Dr. Cadbury was within his rights in making his public statements, they gave him little support other than offering him a long leave of absence. He subsequently was hired by more tolerant administrators at Harvard, where he taught from 1919 to 1954, except for a six-year term at Bryn Mawr College (1925-1934). At Harvard he spent his last 20 years as Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest and one of the most prestigious academic
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