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

Howard & Anna Brinton Papers
Coll. no. 1189
p. 24
Note: Many of the letters to ASCB point to the warm relationships she had with many
and various people and the many ways people came to her for assistance. Where
available, ASCB‘s responses are included
Letters to Anna Shipley Cox Brinton, A-Be. 1 folder (ca. 25 items)
Letter writers include:
Elizabeth Abbott, Irwin Abram, Anne C.S. Allinson, Francis G. Allinson, Mrs. E.
Page Allinson, American Association of University Women, American Friends Service
Committee, American Nobel Anniversary Committee, M.B. Anderson, Yoshio Aoki,
Charles S. Ball, George Barrus, Henry Bartlett, Albert & Edith Bean, F. Beck, Horace V.
Beck, Margaret Beidler, Theodor Benfey, H.B. Bennett, Mary Woods Bennett, Ernest H.
Bennis, Walter Bethel.
Highlights include:
Allinson, Francis G. Berkeley, Ca., 1917-1923. 2 items. [sends an elegy to her in
Greek; personal news]
American Association of University Women (Mary Smith). Washington, D.C.,
1935 5/30. [ASCB is life member]
American Friends Service Committee (Wilbur K. Thomas). Philadelphia, 1921.
3 items. [re fund-raising for the child feeding program in Germany]
American Friends Service Committee (Rufus M. Jones). Haverford, Pa., 1921
3/1. [have been unsuccessful in securing any money from Hoover drive for student
feeding in Germany; hostility to German student feeding pronounced in the meeting of
the European Council as well as by Hoover
American Friends Service Committee. Berlin, 1921 7/7. [letter of thanks for her
work with the Mission, signed by members, including Carolena Wood, Hertha Kraus,
Gilbert MacMaster & many others]
American Friends Service Committee (Clarence Pickett). 1941-1949. 3 items.
[4/7/1949. [asks ASCB to serve on committee to determine long-range use of Davis
House]
American Friends Service Committee (Ed & Jean Duckles). Mexico, 1964 10/?
[report on the work of the Committee in Mexico for the year]
American Friends Service Committee (Margaret E. Jones). Philadelphia, 1945 2
items. [recent repatriation of Japanese Americans from the Seagoville, Texas Internment
Camp and Japanese Americans and Germans at Crystal City Internment Camp (Texas)
who would want to hear ASCB speak]