SFHL/FHL/SC. Small Collections
Found in 292 Collections and/or Records:
Janney family correspondence
Jenkins family papers
Jane Johnson papers
Ann Jones Papers
This collection contains letters and other manuscripts relating to visits of English Friends to America in the 1820s and the controversies which led to the Hicksite-Orthodox Separation. Also included are letters from Elizabeth Rathbone, Liverpool, England, to "My Beloved Uncle;" Joseph Bringhurst, Philadelphia, to "My Esteemed Friend;" also Abel Thomas to Thomas and Mary Wistar (copy) as well as some miscellaneous Quaker papers.
Collection of Rufus Jones papers
George M. Justice papers
Jeff Keith papers
This collection includes Jeff Keith's extensive notes on plenary sessions and committees (including the Faith in Action Committee and the Friends for Gay and Lesbian Concerns Committee) of the 1991 World Conference of Friends in Honduras, along with his notes on the 1999 annual meeting of the Section of the Americas of the Friends World Committee; photocopies of photographs from the 1991 conference; and handouts and writeups from the 1991 conference.
Jesse Kersey papers
Includes letters, sermons, and manuscript fragments, as well as an 1824 printed epistle from London Yearly Meeting. The papers provide important insight into Kersey's faith and his thoughts on the Separation in the Society of Friends.
King family correspondence
The collection contains correspondence received by members of the King family, Quaker residents of Ceres, McKean County, Pennsylvania. The letters primarily deal with family concerns. One from Mary (King) Swayne, written in 1817, mentions that her husband, Joel Swayne, had contemplated returning to Indian territory but her poor health prevented his leaving. Anna King mentions her students and is distressed by the tensions in the Society of Friends in 1828.
Kirk family correspondence
This collection includes letters written by Thomas Kirk and his son Israel to their family in Pennsylvania as they moved first to Center Monthly Meeting in Ohio, and later to Duck Creek Monthly Meeting, Ind. The letters relate to family and local news and business. Two letters refer to the growing division in the Society, as the Hicksite controversy reaches Ohio Yearly Meeting.
