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Box 7

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Contains 9 Results:

Lydia Hunn Williamson, diaries, 1963, 1965-1968, datebook 1967

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Daily entries with some gaps. In January 1968 Lydia moved from her long-time home in Rutledge and temporarily stayed with the Karsners. In March she was in nursing care Friends Home, West Chester, Pa. and in April she moved to Friends Home in Kennett. Her sister Katherine provided help, and she and other Friends provided transportatoin for her to attend different Quaker Meetings.

Dates: 1963, 1965-1968, datebook 1967

Joseph Karsner, rough notes, trip diary, 1953, 1957, undated

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1953 fragments of visits to Quaker meeting. 1957, notes on t Trip to England and Europe, visiting Quaker meetings

Dates: 1953, 1957, undated

Katherine Hunn Karsner, trip journal, 1952

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Letters to her sister and carbon copies. She visited Pacific Yearly Meeting and Western Canada. She mentioned that her husband, Joe Karsner, was speaking at Friends Conference for National Legislation, etc.

Dates: 1952

Katherine Hunn Karsner, trip journals,, 1953, 1956

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Manuscript original and typed carbons. Trip to California to attend Friends Fellowship Conference and to visit Quaker meetings. Followed by travel from Seattle to Fairbanks to visit Mary Ann and family.

Dates: 1953, 1956

Katherine Hunn Karsner, trip journals, 1956

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Visited eastern Canada meetings, presenting AFSC reports. Then train to Seattle and flew to Fairbanks to visit the family in Alaska

Dates: 1956

Published Poems of Katherine Hunn Karsner, 1910 - 1985

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Her poems were published in Quaker periodicals including Scattered Seeds, The Friend, Friends Journal. Typed copies, rRemoved from small loose-leaf binder.

Dates: 1910 - 1985

Short stories by Katherine Hunn Karsner, Undated

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Typed and edited. Possibly submitted for publication. Also an anecdote written and submitted by Lydia Williamson to Reader's Digest, 1948.

Dates: Undated

"If I Had a Son" by Katherine Hunn Karsner

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Undated poem expressing pride and pleasure, with delight in how different and brave her daughter was from herself, more like her husband.

Farewell to Aunt Polly, 1968

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Typed carbon of a loving poem written when Lydia Hunn Williamson sold her house in Morton. The home had served as a refuge for many family and friends including sister Katherine and nephew Ben Keller.

Dates: 1968