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Conrow-Hunt Family Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-203
Abstract
Contains three letters, 1786-1787, with later manuscript copies, to Quaker minister and diarist, John Hunt, from Darling Conrow. John Hunt added a biographical note concerning Conrow to the final letter. Also contains a letter, 1886, concerning Hunt genealogy.
Dates:
1786-1886
Laura Lippincott Pancoast correspondence
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-SC-091
Abstract
This collection includes letters received by Laura Lippincott Pancoast regarding the movement for temperance and women's suffrage. Letters refer to Francis B. Willard, and describe in detail the activities and philosophies of J. Ellen Foster. Letters discuss the issue of the WCTU's involvement with party policies. Correspondents include Anna H. Shaw, Anna A. Gordon, and J. Ellen Foster.
Dates:
1888-1917
Sharpless-Reeve family papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-325
Overview
The collected papers of the Sharpless and Reeve family of New Jersey and Philadelphia. Much of the correspondence is between Edward Sharpless (1831-1894), a New Jersey Quaker minister, and his sister, Anna N. Sharpless, who married John Newbold Reeve in 1857. Their daughter, Mary Offley Reeve, worked as a school teacher when young and became involved in temperance and evangelical Christianity. She shared these interests, reflected in diaries and other writings, with Annie Way Smith, a...
Dates:
1852 - 1957
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- Conrow, Darling 1
- Foster, J. Ellen (Judith Ellen), 1840-1910 1
- Gordon, Anna A. (Anna Adams), 1853-1931 1
- Hunt family 1
- Hunt, John, 1740-1824 1
- Pancoast, Laura Lippincott, 1860-1927 1
- Reeve, Anna N. (Anna N. Sharpless Reeve), 1825-1891 1
- Reeve, Mary Offley, 1861-1947 1
- Sharpless, Edward, 1831-1894 1
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919 1
- Smith, Annie Way, 1867-1938 1
- Valentino, Carmen 1
- Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898 1
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