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Quaker visitors from Lebanon

Tony and Jocelyne Manasseh from Beirut are on a monthlong visit to the Haverford area, primarily to visit their daughter, Joya, a first-year student at Haverford.  After attending Fifth Day Meeting, they stopped by Special Collections and we were very pleased to acquaint them with some primary source materials relating to the Middle East held in our department.  One of the items was the annotated watercolor sketchbook from 1875-76 which we acquired in March of this year (see posting from April 2006) depicting the Friends Training Home in Brummana, Lebanon.  The Manassehs graciously accepted the invitation to view the sketchbook, but the thrill came when they got to the page showing the layout of the land in 1875 and, pointing to a house on a hill, said "That's our house."

Posted by Diana Franzusoff Peterson at November 9, 2006 03:18 PM

William Penn's Welcome Week, November 8-10

As part of a city-wide celebration of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania, Haverford Special Collections has a small number of items on exhibit in our Reading Room in Magill Library for the remainder of the week.  Materials on display include:

• An engraving of William Penn, aged 22, as well as a carved bust depicting him later in life
• A polyglot bible in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew from Penn's personal library
• A letter from Penn to his Deputy Governor of Pennsylvania
• The only surviving copy of Penn's English translation of the Magna Carta
• A section of the Haverford Treaty Elm, descendant of the tree under which Penn met with the Indians at Shackamaxon

We invite you to pay us a visit to see these and other items, this Wednesday through Friday, November 8-10, 9:00 am - 12:30 pm and 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm.  Information about other events comprising William Penn's Welcome Week is online at: http://www.ushistory.org/penn/.

Posted by John Anderies at November 9, 2006 09:05 AM