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Baltimore Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends

 Organization

Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:

Baltimore Yearly Meeting correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-950-013
Overview

This collection contains the typed correspondence of the Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

Dates: 1909

Baltimore Yearly Meeting draft epistles collection

 Collection — Othertype SC-269
Identifier: SFHL-SC-269
Abstract

Collection of manuscript drafts of epistles prepared by Baltimore Yearly Meeting to send to the Yearly Meetings of Philadelphia, New York, Rhode Island, and North Carolina. Most concern the education and treatment of Indians, African Americans, and Quaker children; also, opposition to war and the production of liquor by Friends. All are handwritten with corrections.

Dates: 1776-1815

Friends Historical Library manuscript epistles collection

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-006
Overview

The term "epistle" is used to refer to letters exchanged between Quaker organizations, especially from one yearly meeting to another. Epistles are often used to articulate Quaker doctrine and discipline. This collection of various manuscript (handwritten) epistles was compiled from the Friends Historical Library from different sources.

Dates: 1688 - 1973

Patricia Loring papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-316
Overview Patricia Loring was a Quaker author, teacher, and retreat leader, most active in her related work in the 1980s and 1990s. She was the author of a widely read Quaker spiritual guide, Listening Spirituality, vols. 1 and 2. For eight years her ministry was supported by Bethesda Friends Meeting, Bethesda, Maryland. This collection includes a variety of Patricia Loring's papers, largely beginning when she joined the Religious Society of Friends. Much of the collection consists of papers from...
Dates: 1982 - 2015

Quaker Disciplines

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-005
Overview

The Society of Friends or Quakers (the terms are synonymous) was founded in the middle of the seventeenth century in England by George Fox and others. The Friends Historical Library has collected Quaker disciplines since its founding in 1871. FHL is also the official repository for the records of seven American yearly meetings.

Dates: 1689-2018

Carroll T. Sinclair papers

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-1117
Overview

Research relating to Quaker Meetings in Maryland by Carroll T. Sinclair, including manuscript material and photographs prepared in the mid-20th century.

Dates: circa 1962-1964

"Some Account of Baltimore Yearly Meeting 1825"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-003
Overview

This collection is composed of the single, handwritten document by an unknown author. It reads similiarly to minutes that may have been taken. It also includes a note on the inside that "The Individuals to whose names the * is attached in the following sheets were acive and influential "Hicksites" at the time or afterwards" [Emphasis theirs].

Dates: 1825

"Education of the Freedmen By Philadelphia and Baltimore Quakers During the Civil War and Reconstruction Period"

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-07-094
Overview Frank O. Wargny's 1947 master's thesis at John Hopkins University, entitled "Education of the Freedmen by Baltimore Quakers during the Civil War and Reconstruction Period," describes the efforts of Philadelphia and Baltimore area Quakers to provide education to freed slaves during and after the Civil War. It provides a brief history of Philadelphia area Quakers' abolition efforts prior to the Civil War, including the work of Benezet and Woolman, but the majority of the manuscript focuses on...
Dates: 1947

George Webb and Eleanor Brooks Webb papers

 Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-323
Overview

The George Webb and Eleanor Brooks Webb papers include the extensive journals, correspondence, and other papers of Baltimore Quakers Eleanor and George Webb. Eleanor's detailed journals cover most of her life -- from her 12th year until her death in 1997. Also of particular interest are the correspondence, album, photographs, and other records of George work in Civilian Public Service during World War II.

Dates: 1920-1997

Yearly and Monthly Meeting minute extracts

 Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-09-033
Scope and Contents

This collection contains typed research notes by an unknown person. Previously they were referred to as extracts, however they are not formal printed extracts. The notes are from Yearly and Monthly Meetings, including Baltimore Yearly Meeting, Indiana Yearly Meeting, and Ohio Yearly Meeting. Many of the notes either are categorized by topic, or include topical indices.

Dates: 1759-1887

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Epistles 3
Baltimore (Md.) 2
Lay ministry -- Society of Friends 2
Quakers 2
Quakers -- History 2