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Amy Fenimore diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-025
Overview
Amy Fenimore was a Quaker from Philadelphia. Her diary entries largely focus on prayers and religious reflection, and many describe Quaker meetings, and births, deaths, and marriages within the Quaker community. Entries during the years 1832-1833 discuss the Hicksite-Orthodox Quaker separation.
Dates:
1803-1840
Shoemaker commonplace books
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-03-035
Overview
The commonplace books of the Shoemaker family include advice, reflections, excerpts of letters, prose, poetry, and excerpts organized by topic, including matrimony, happiness, pleasure, and character.
Dates:
1794-1839
Ann Warder diaries
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-082
Overview
This collection includes three bound volumes of handwritten transcriptions and extracts of Ann Head Warder’s diaries, originally written between 1786 and 1789. The transcriptions were written by later family members during the 19th century. Diary entries describe Ann’s voyage to America and her travels within New York and Pennsylvania, including people she met, Quaker meetings she attended, and social calls made during her travels.
Dates:
1786-1789
Ann Cooper Whitall diary
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-01-090
Overview
Ann Cooper Whitall's diary entries focus on descriptions of Quaker meetings, illnesses within her family and community, reflections on religion and the perceived failure of Whitall’s community to live up to its ideals, and discussions concerning effective child-rearing practices.
Dates:
1760-1780; Majority of material found within 1760-1762
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