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MS 466 - Cadbury Collection - 16th cent. - 20th cent.
- 1 - Family papers - 1727 - 1977
  - 1 - Papers relating to Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury (1858-1951) - 1842 - 1960
    - 3 - Papers relating to Elizabeth Taylor Cadbury's early public philanthropic work and interests up to 1888 - 1876 - 1888

Ref No	MS 466/1/1/3/2
Finding Number	MS 466/142, 127/36-37 and MS 466/152/96
Title	Elizabeth Taylor, the Portfolio Society and Edward Reynolds Pease
Level	Sub Series
Date	1877 - 1883
Description	This section contains papers relating to Elizabeth Taylor's involvement with the Quaker literary and debating group, the Portfolio Society. Scott writes that meetings of the Society were often held at the home of the surgeon Jonathan Hutchinson, the founder of Haslemere. Elizabeth Taylor was a close friend of Hutchinson's daughter Elsie. The section includes an invitation sent to Elizabeth Taylor by the Portfolio Society as well as a copy of an essay written by Edward Reynolds Pease entitled 'Personal Duty'. These documents feature alongside a handwritten copy of a paper written by Elizabeth Taylor entitled 'Can Poverty be Relieved without Alms Giving?' which she wrote in 1883 in response to Pease's essay. Scott suggests that Elizabeth Taylor's essay instigated her correspondence and friendship with Edward Reynolds Pease. Scott remarks that Elizabeth Taylor was 'a leader amongst the group of young Friends in London' associated with the Portfolio Society.
Extent	4
Format	Items
Related Material	Biographical information about Elizabeth Taylor and the Portfolio Society taken from Richenda Scott, 'Elizabeth Cadbury: 1858-1951' (London: Harrap, 1955), p. 36 and pp. 40-41. Biographical information about Edward Reynolds Pease taken from Mark Bevir, 'Pease, Edward Reynolds (1857-1955)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35445], accessed 13 May 2009.
Access Status	Open
AdminHistory	Edward Reynolds Pease (1857-1955) was the nephew of chocolate magnate Joseph Storrs Fry (1836-1913). A socialist influenced by evangelicalism, Pease became the Secretary of the Fabian Society in 1889. As Secretary he associated the Society with other socialist groups and promoted the Society's work through publications and lecture courses.
Language	English

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