Howard Haines Brinton and Anna Shipley Cox Brinton - Haverford ...

Howard & Anna Brinton Papers
Coll. no. 1189
p. 10
diaries, 1955- 1968. To round out Anna Brinton‘s part of the collection are glass slides
of silhouettes of Quakers and photographs taken in Japan, as well as miscellaneous
materials, including Christmas cards hand-drawn by ASCB.
The collection continues with the correspondence of Howard Brinton, from his
early youth, then teaching at Guilford College in North Carolina, his work with the
feeding program of the AFSC in Germany (1920-21), his marriage to ASCB and the birth
of their children, teaching at Mills College in California, the trip to Japan and finally,
settling in as co-director of Pendle Hill (1936). He maintained connections and interest
in many Japanese friends and acquaintances. Brinton writes about his publications, his
beliefs, lectures, and his marriage to Yuki Takahashi (1972).
HHB‘s early letters are primarily to his parents, then also to Anna and Anna‘s
parents. His correspondents include: Stephen Hobhouse, Yukio Irie, Rufus Jones, Walter
Miles, Douglas Steere and many others.
In addition to HHB correspondence are his book reviews and contracts, notes and
research on topics of interest to him, manuscripts, typescripts and published articles,
juvenilia, poems, lectures and diaries. Many of these deal with the theme of American
Quakerism. As well are materials relating to his academic life at Haverford College,
Harvard University, Pickering and Mills Colleges.
There are documents and pictures relating to the German and Spanish feeding
program relating to both HHB and ASCB. Included here are some unusual photographs
from Almora Gaza accompanied by a note suggesting that AFSC had a project with
refugees in Gaza.
In the papers of Alvin J. Cox, arranged with Cox family materials, are
photographs of Philippine natives taken in 1900 by Dean C. Worcester. Cox had visited
the Philippines on an inspection trip by the Department of Agriculture and Natural
Resources as Director of the Bureau of Science in 1911. The photographs are of the
Bontoc people of the Philippines.
There is an extensive list of materials removed to other locations at the end of the
finding aid. These are primarily published articles.
In all, the collection points to the extraordinary lives and output of Anna Shipley
Cox Brinton and Howard Haines Brinton and, not least, the importance of their family
life.
Series I: Genealogical and Biographical Information