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Albert Joseph Edmunds papers
Albert J. Edmunds was born in England in 1857 and immigrated to the United States in 1885. He attended Friend’s school as a child and graduated from the University of London in 1877. Upon settling in the Philadelphia area, Edmunds became a librarian at Haverford College. After a short time at the Ph...
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| Collection: | Albert Joseph Edmunds Papers |
| Collection Number: | 1342 |
| Format: | Manuscript |
| Language: | English |
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22.0 Linear feet 22 linear feet, 53 boxes, 1 volume |
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Albert J. Edmunds was born in England in 1857 and immigrated to the United States in 1885. He attended Friend’s school as a child and graduated from the University of London in 1877. Upon settling in the Philadelphia area, Edmunds became a librarian at Haverford College. After a short time at the Philadelphia Library, Edmunds joined the staff at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1891 and remained there until 1936. At an early age Edmunds, who never married, devoted his life to vegetarianism and academia. Throughout his life, Edmunds studied and wrote about Christianity and Buddhism in particular and religion in general and was the author of several published works. In addition to these scholarly pursuits, he was also a prolific poet, writing hundreds of poems and publishing a book of poetry in 1906 Fairmount Park and Other Poems. Edmunds died in 1941.
This collection contains the papers and published works Edmunds collected throughout his life. The papers include correspondence, invitations, and greeting cards. There is a series of his religious and general writings, as well as his poems. In addition to these papers are diaries and notebooks dating from 1871 through the 1930s. The diaries and correspondence are particularly rich and describe Edmunds's daily life, his dreams, and his philosophical proclivities.
Unprocessed additions to the collection (Acc. #2019.009) span 2.6 linear feet (7 boxes) and are comprised books, articles by Edmunds, books reviews by or about Edmunds, texts and cards on religions such as Buddhism and Christianity, Buddhist and Christian gospels, card catalogs, and some poetry. The collection's extent has not been updated to reflect these additions. |